Most radio news job advertisements could sit happily in a lonely-hearts column: "Friendly newsroom seeks flexible journalist for fun and frolics to plug vital gap in rotas. Must have GSOH."

Filling any radio newsroom vacancy can feel as difficult for a News Editor as tracking down a life partner, and often requires the skills of a magician to pull a rabbit out of your hat in the nick of time.

Your challenge is to find someone who will slot straight into your team, but with plenty of development potential, and to find them fast, without spending too much valuable budget on advertising, or before the other journalists start getting ideas about moving on themselves.

Meanwhile, how are job-hungry journalists to find their ideal role? Job ads are sprinkled about in a variety of print and online locations, and are often buried in a sea of sales, presenter and technical vacancies. For those new to the industry or working in the twilight zone of freelancing, it's even harder, as these people are unlikely to have instant access to the standard communications networks.

One person who's done her fair share of working through situations like these is former GCap News Editor Claire Jaggard. There had to be a better way for newsrooms and journalists to find each other, so Claire created a website called JournoJobs.com.

The site is tightly focused on providing a free advertising platform for any UK radio journalism job. By doing this, and through Claire's network of contacts built up over more than a decade, JournoJobs.com can be comprehensive - if there's a newsroom job up for grabs in UK radio, here's where you'll find it. It also means that the journalists searching the site will be exactly the candidates News Editors want to target.

The site shows permanent, contract and freelance vacancies, including senior and News Editor roles as well as trainee and volunteer positions, so will be just as useful for students and freelancers as staffers.

The site launched in 2005 and the response has been unanimously positive, with News Editors across the country sending in comments along the lines of "Why has no-one done this before?" and describing it as "a tool which is going to be essential and is long required."

JournoJobs is building up a database of information about newsrooms and how they operate, with maps and website links to give job seekers background information. And, because Claire is so keen on training and developing journalists, she's also planning to include useful information such as tips for making the best of your voice, and advice from other journalists.

We ask such a lot of journalists these days. We may not expect them to become life partners, but we do demand the multiple skills of a circus performer - spinning bulletins, clowning for the audience, persuading interviewees to participate in our acts and preparing material for the next day's performance. Anything we can do to help fit the right people into the right vacancies will be a massive support to the industry.

The only thing you can be sure of is that the journalist you hire now will inevitably move on to new challenges, and you'll be back at the lonely-hearts column before long.