Thousands of job seekers are advertising their qualifications on the Labour Department's revised Internet homepage. Employers can also recruit staff and list vacancies on the Web site, called 'Interactive Employment Service'. The service is part of a new initiative to modernise the department's employment service. Previously, the site only listed vacancies and did not have a search engine. Now job seekers can search for openings by salary, job title or location. They can list their skills, work experience and education levels in a database scanned by employers. Within two weeks of the Web site's launch on March 11, a total of 2,013 job seekers and 193 employers signed up to be listed on the site, according to department figures. Some 1,500 people visit the new homepage daily. At the end of its first two weeks of operation, the site listed 263 vacancies for managers and administrators, 164 for engineers and 58 for computer programmers, among others. A union leader said yesterday the Web site would help upper-tier job seekers, but was of little use to numerous people seeking blue-collar work. 'People like seamstresses, part-time domestic helpers and retail clerks don't use computers to look for work. Most of them don't even have a computer at home,' said Cheung Lai-ha, secretary of the Clothing Industry, Clerical and Retail Trade Employees General Union. But a spokesman for the department said that in the long run, more people would catch on to the service and find ways to use it. The Web site address is http://www.employment.labour.gov.hk