JOBSEEKERS checking one recruitment agency's window in town will be in for a shock from tomorrow a window that talks to them about advertised jobs!

Mainline Employment Ltd. in Commercial Road, Swindon has become the first recruitment agency in the United Kingdom to install and operate the Window-talk interactive talking window system.

Jobs on offer on the usual window posters include specialist industrial, commercial, technical and driving vacancies.

However, each poster has an individual three digit number on it. Jobseekers simply tap the number on to a pad through Mainline Employment's window to hear a message telling them more about that individual job role.

They are invited into the recruitment agency or when the office is closed, they are asked to leave their phone number by tapping the number into pad.

The agency then calls them back the following day to discuss their requirements. The agency's managing director and founder, Stella Godwin, said: "The beauty of the system is that it fits in with our 24 hour/seven day a week society.

"It tells potential jobseekers more about vacancies whenever they want to hear it and lets them leave their phone number so we can contact them to arrange a first interview or give them more information."

Ms Godwin moved quickly to become the country's first recruitment Windowtalk operator after learning that if they installed the system, none of their local competitors could. Windowtalk director John Quinn explained: "Windowtalk is marketed on an exclusive basis with negotiated boundaries.

"It allows an ambitious and go-ahead agency like Mainline Employment to differentiate themselves from their competition by offering employers and jobseekers a service other recruitment agencies in the Swindon area cannot."