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Jobs Online 95% Of All Jobseekers Use The Internet To Find Thier Next New Job
Is you next jobs online there for you?
Finding your next job by using jobsite or even a general search engine has become a very most popular way for jobseekers to find new employment. If you ask any jobseeker today about how they found their current employment over 99% will say they used the internet in one format, whether it was for full searching, to research the company they were going to meet, or even to send their cv by webmail – over 95% of all people do use the net for their hunting process.
Why is this?
Using the internet to search for jobs has become much more popular over the last few years because it has become so much faster to find content/information that a jobseeker needs. This is a two-edged sword though, because it also allows employers to google the potential the jobseekers name! And background.
In today’s fast paced world job hunters have a choice of browsing through jobs that take their fancy (general jobsites) or searching through specialist job-sites whish specialise[spin] in on their experience. So for example if you’re a sales person it’s proberly a much better option to search for new job using a jobboard that has only sales sales related employment.
Taking New Zealand as an example, there are a few well established recruitment jobsites that provide a lot of generalist vacancies for job-hunters but there are also a number of new niche jobsites that cater for specialist skills such as IT jobs or even the contractor job market place.
Recruiters that need people with either special skills or need lots of vacancies in their company filled for a type of skills such as engineers, pc programmers, chefs and so on also seem to get better results by using niche jobsites – it cuts down on the amount of invalid response ( the ones that make you think…why did they bother applying??)
The best thing about the net is that arecruiter can get responses almost immediately from placing their advert online, and there are of course less issues like the amount of text you can use compared to a news-paper ad.
Using virtual advertising is cheaper, faster and more effective – this is proberly why most traditional newspaper and media companies have quietly been buying up jobsites as they know that the markets have been shifting for some time.
With the emergence of wap you are beginning to see the final nails in the coffin of newspaper job advertising, where you had to wait for a “Thursday” before you could apply for a job, or get your “ad” in before deadline day! When you look back you wonder how did I ever managed to recruit at all !
Using the internet allows the employer to place lots of job ads and really track down the right person for the employment. If you’re thinking of advertising for staff – think about where you would look for a job if you were an IT professional or if you were a accountant. You can bet they will be looking online after all.
