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WE'VE MOVED! As of January 2005
the CJS Office address will be: CJS, The Moorlands, Goathland, Whitby, N
Yorks YO22 5LZ Tel: 01947 896007 Fax: 01947 896474 TRF-CS |
1. From Advertisers
2. From Subscribers
3. From Advertisers and Subscribers (General questions)
Which of your four publications should we use?
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CJS Daily Online for speed. CJS Weekly for free and very low cost ads. CJS
Monthly for Public Sector ads and Best Value.
Which of your publications gives the best value for money ads?
It is hard to beat a Standard Free Lineage ad in CJS Weekly, but any ad in CJS
Daily Online or CJS Monthly automatically gets a
Standard Free Lineage ad in CJS Weekly as well, thus reaching an extra (and different) readership at no extra cost. On balance, CJS Monthly (from £35) is posted to 1000+ Public Sector offices AND appears in full on our website for 4 weeks at no extra cost AND all paid jobs automatically getting a
Standard Free Lineage ad in CJS Weekly AS WELL!
Summary:
Good Value: CJS Weekly
Better Value: CJS Daily Online (with a Standard Free Lineage ad in CJS Weekly as well).
Best Value: CJS Monthly (with a Standard Free Lineage ad in CJS Weekly as well AND CJS Monthly also appears on our website)!
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Can you put our ad on the Internet?
Yes. CJS Daily Online will have your Lineage and Display ads on our website
within 24 hours, and usually THE SAME DAY (weekdays)! Email your ad.
How best to email artwork to CJS?
Please attach it as a PDF (or as a JPEG) and email it to
ranger @ countryside-jobs.com
What is 'Camera Ready Artwork'?
Ready for us to photocopy, i.e. the right size, shape and layout (see Advertising).
We keep our advertising rates so low by reducing the amount of artwork WE have to do.
Is CJS VAT Registered?
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Yes. From 1/11/00. Our VAT Registration Number is 766 9167 76. Trade Classification: 22105 - Other Publishing. Please add 17.5% VAT to all CJS Advertisement costs. NB: CJS Subscriptions are NOT liable to VAT.
Charities paying for an ad can avoid VAT by completing a VAT exemption
declaration [click
here for a blank declaration] and returning it to us.
Subscribers
frequently ask
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Shall I send you my CV /
Resume?
No thank-you. We are publishers, NOT a Recruitment Agency, so we have no need of your CV.
Why subscribe to CJS Weekly when I can read CJS Daily Online and CJS Monthly on this website for free?
Our Daily and Monthly publications contain only those jobs which the employers
have PAID us to advertise, whereas our Weekly publication gives a Standard Free
Lineage ad to ALL the jobs we are aware of each week (a total of 5,449 paid UK jobs were detailed in CJS Weekly in 2005).
How much is it to subscribe to CJS Weekly?
The minimum is £20 for 15 weekly editions, equivalent to £1.33p per week, for electronic web access (worldwide).
An additional £1.20 is added for postal subscriptions. Please see
Subscribing.
How do I subscribe to CJS Weekly?
You can subscribe via this website, by post or by telephone: WEBSITE - click on
Shop and use your credit or debit card; POST - send a
cheque or postal order payable to Countryside Jobs Service for the amount to the
address at the top of this page; TELEPHONE - Phone 01947 896007 and use your credit or debit card.
Do I need an Application Form to subscribe to CJS Weekly?
No. That would just be another piece of paper, another envelope, another stamp
and another delay. We just need your name, address and payment. Please see
Subscribing.
What foreign currencies does your online shop accept?
You can pay online using Great British pounds sterling, European euros or US dollars.
When will I get my first issue of CJS Weekly?
If we receive your name, address and payment BEFORE 3pm on Thursdays it will be processed in time to dispatch your first issue that weekend. Email subscribers should receive theirs late on
Fridays and Postal subscribers should receive theirs on Mondays. Your first issue will include jobs still current from previous weeks.
NB: Any subscriptions received AFTER 3pm on Thursdays too late for that
weekend's issue and are held over until until the FOLLOWING weekend.
What happens if I subscribe to CJS Weekly and then get a job?
When you get a job, or if at any time and for any reason you wish to discontinue your subscription, we will be happy to refund the remainder of your subscription to you, without quibble. Or you can transfer the subscription to a friend or colleague, or donate the remaining value to
the Leukaemia Research Fund & / or to CJ Snail, our adopted endangered species at
Jersey Zoo (or 50/50 to both).
How will I know when to renew my subscription?
Subscribers who get their CJS Weekly delivered by post can check each week on their Address Page: The number in brackets (your Countdown Number) after your name shows how many more issues are still to come; The date of your Last
Issue in that subscription is also given; Bright red Subscription Renew Reminders are also sent with Countdown weeks 3 and 2. Those getting their
copies online or via email receive Subscription Renew Reminders by email in Countdown weeks 4, 3, 2 & 1.
How do I Renew my Subscription to CJS Weekly?
Just the same as subscribing for the first time (see Subscribing). If it has
lapsed, please let us know that you have
subscribed before, as we MAY still have your details on the database. If you do not
tell us that you are renewing a subscription we will assume it is an entirely new subscription and it may overlap your existing one.
What jobs does CJS NOT include?
'The Environment' is a big field [true!] and sometimes the term can be too
vague. We do NOT, for instance, include Environmental Health jobs (too much checking food shops for Salmonella, etc); nor Outdoor Pursuits (ie
rock climbing, canoeing & caving, unless it includes Environmental Education);
nor overseas jobs (unless they are sent to us Direct, in which case we will
include them, but not count them as part of our running total of paid UK
jobs), nor asbestos, nor radiation related jobs. The jobs excluded are all
valuable professions, but do not fall within our remit.
Royal Mail often delivers my CJS Weekly late - what can I do?
We pay Royal Mail to deliver all paper copies of CJS weekly first class on
Mondays and sometime s they do.
All postal copies of the CJS Weekly are posted First Class on Sunday mornings and over 90% should be delivered on Mondays.
If not you can contact your local Royal Mail Delivery Office (see Phone Book) and ask for a 'Lost, Damaged or Delayed Inland Letter Form' to complete and return to RM. They will write you a nice letter saying how unusual this is and enclose a book of stamps by way of apology. Better still, why not ask us (before 3pm on Thursdays) to
transfer your details to the web access list, online copies are normally
available from Friday evenings? We do not charge extra for 'Express Delivery' - nor is there any reduction. We just charge everyone a standard rate, which reduces our admin costs and so helps to keep the CJS Subscription rate unchanged for
yet another year.
In our Autumn '05 Subscriber Satisfaction Survey, 100% of web access subscribers
were highly or very highly satisfied with the delivery compared to 79% for
postal subscribers.
Who is 'CJ Snail?'
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CJ Snail ('CJ' to his / her friends) is a Partula Snail about as big as your thumbnail and the Endangered Species officially adopted by the CJS. The species lived at Cook Bay on the Pacific Island of Moorea, once visited by Captain Cook of Whitby. We decided to adopt a snail because we know that maintaining biodiversity is not just about saving the big and the furry species. We chose Jersey Zoo (officially known as The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust) because I owe a great debt of gratitude to its founder, Gerrald Durrell
OBE. It was his books and TV programmes which first inspired me as a child to
get interested, then involved and later to develop a career in Conservation. CJS
is pleased to collect your donations (we suggest you add just 1p / week to your
Subscription) and pass them on (without any deductions whatsoever) to Jersey
Zoo. Since we first adopted him/her subscribers to CJS Weekly have raised
over £1000 for CJ who must now be the richest snail that ever lived!
Why the Leukaemia Research Fund?
Please click on Anthea under Other.
What is the best time to phone?
Office hours.
Or you can leave your name and telephone number, or send your fax, at any time.
Our number is 01947 896007 (24 hours). Or fax at any time to: 01947 896474. Or
email us.
What about Bank Holidays?
We ignore all Bank Holidays (except Christmas and New Year) and publish as
usual, even if Royal Mail delivers it a day later than normal! At Christmas and
New Year we close the CJS office completely and have our 'summer' holidays.
Please see News
Releases for the actual dates.
What is your deadline?
We have several! Our COPY DEADLINES are: CJS Daily Online no deadline,
Monday to Friday inclusive and usually published the same day. CJS Weekly 12 noon
every Friday. (Space Booking Deadline for Display Ads only: 5pm Thursdays).
Published every Monday. CJS Monthly
12 noon on the Tuesday, published on the second Thursday of every month. CJS Annual Review
15th Feb every year. FOR NEW AND RENEWED SUBSCRIPTIONS to CJS Weekly the
deadline is 3pm every Thursday. Any received after this will be held over to the
following weekend.
Is CJS a recruitment agency?
No. CJS is a small commercial publishing company, providing free and low cost information to promote countryside careers and environmental conservation on an ethical basis.
Is CJS just another rip-off?
No. In our Autumn '05 Subscriber Satisfaction Survey we sent a questionnaire to
over 1000 Subscribers and analysed the 112 returned. 50% said their rate of Overall Satisfaction was Very High,
48.2% said it was High,
0.9% said it was Medium and 0.9% said it was Low or Very Low. We also offer a no-quibble guarantee: Your satisfaction or a refund.
Of the thousands of CJS Subscribers we have had in the last 10 years, only ONE
single Subscriber has asked for their money back because they were dissatisfied
(an email Subscriber who was unable to receive or recognise or open the
attachments we were sending, assumed we hadn't sent any, didn't provide
a phone number and didn't respond to our explanations - so we refunded their
subscription in full. We asked for a receipt but they never replied). Lots of
other Subscribers have asked for the remainder of their Subscription to be refunded because they have got a job - and this we are
always very happy to do!
Does CJS have a Privacy Policy?
Yes: we will not give, exchange, buy or sell your details to any unauthorised party. (See also: Is your database properly registered
and Legal Bits)?
Is your database properly registered?
Yes. Data Protection Act Registration Number: PZ5802747. Names, addresses, etc are held on our
computer. Your Credit / Debit card details are NOT held on any of our computers. We will NOT give,
exchange, buy or sell your details to any unauthorised party.
Why do you not advertise the CJS more?
We could spend lots of YOUR money on advertising ourselves, but we prefer to rely on the very best form of advertising possible: personal recommendation from the vast majority of our satisfied users. This way we can not only keep our prices down but also grow at a reasonable and sustainable rate.
Why so much sponsorship?
CJS is proud to sponsor 1) the Scottish Countryside Rangers Association; 2)
Countryside Management Association; 3) CJ Snail (an Endangered Species of Partula Snail at Jersey Zoo) and
4) Naturenet. This is our way of saying 'Thank-you' and of 'putting something back' into the Conservation Movement, without risking the financial viability of CJS.
We also support the Leukaemia Research Fund (See
Anthea, for the same reasons)
Is CJS printed on recycled paper?
Yes. We use only 100% recycled paper and envelopes, which costs more than virgin paper but we believe it is the right thing to do. All our toner cartridges are returned for recharging. All our waste office paper and used newspapers are recycled and all
magazines are taken to Whitby Hospital. All used stamps from incoming mail are donated to charity shops in Whitby.
What is 'RENTaRANGER'?
RENTaRANGER was the trading name which Anthea and I chose when I resigned from Croxteth Hall and Country Park in Liverpool (I had been Senior Ranger there for 10 years) and overnight we became freelance Countryside Rangers in 1988. After several years of commercial Guided Walks, Environmental Education, etc we also started the Countryside Jobs Service in 1994 and ran it as part of RENTaRANGER.
Within a few years, the CJS outgrew RENTaRANGER so we set it up as a separate business and we continued to run both. After a few more years we had little time (or energy) to continue with both businesses, so RENTaRANGER
was scaled-down and eventually discontinued.
That's it. Any other question you want answered just contact us by email or fill in our feedback form (under Contact us). Have you looked at Help! (above)