Online recruitment up 50%
Tue 29 Jan 2008
Jobseekers are twice as likely to only use the internet to search for work, a new survey has revealed. The National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) polled 40,000 people looking for work and found that nine per cent exclusively searched the web when looking for a new position. Tim Elkington, managing director of Enhance Media, who produced the poll, said jobseekers did not use other sources because "the internet is providing everything they need to find a new job". The NORAS findings showed more than three-quarters of those polled have applied for a job they found online, 69 per cent got an interview and its average jobseeker was aged 35. The report also highlighted a further trend in online recruitment - jobseekers now look at fewer sites than before. "Five years ago they would have looked at seven websites to find work, now they look at four," Mr Elkington noted.
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