I have seen sites come up very high in the rankings with longer title tags, so I would venture to say that Google doesn’t give demerits for title tags longer than 68 characters, though I would be wary of creating title tags much longer than 80 or 90 characters.

My own Title tag basics for Recruitment websites:

1. Jobs pages:
   • Get the word ‘Job’ in early- that’s what the page is about, first and foremost.
   • Job Title
   • Location
   • Sector or Discipline
2. Avoid repetition like the plague.  There is good eveidence that Google will treat this as keyword spamming.  Essentially, it is!
3. Read Google’s own guidelines.   If your jobs site has good jobs on it for people searching in Google, then Google are also here to help your candidates find jobs on your site, believe it or not.

If you know the web address of where you’re heading, you type it straight into the browser. I may not be indicative of the general populaous but I’d wager that a lot of YOUR candidates and clients have tried your web address without the www. What worries me more, is that SO MANY recruitment websites seem to not work with the www.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. If your recruitment site is not configured to display without the “www”, would your clients and candidates be impressed?