Every quarter we publish a Recruitment Review of jobseekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour, plus business confidence in the recruitment market. It’s produced for us by independent brand tracking agency HPI and helps us to better understand how candidates and recruiters are approaching the job market.

The Winter 2011 Recruitment Review has just been published and it has some interesting findings on the way that Jobseekers are approaching the market:

• Online job boards remain the most used method, though searching company websites is becoming increasingly popular.
• Newspaper ads are still a valuable source as are recruitment agencies
• Almost 50% are now using social & business networking sites Continue reading “Latest Research Shows Changing Approaches to Job-hunting” »

Our Winter 2011 Quarterly Recruitment Review of jobseekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour, plus business confidence in the recruitment market is now available to download

This report, run by independent brand tracking agency HPI, shows two key changes from our last report:

• Jobseekers are becoming a little more passive and pessimistic
• Businesses are responding positively, embracing more online recruitment methods whilst remaining cost conscious

The mood of the candidate community is downbeat, with only 23% feeling that their job situation will improve in 2012, and there are signs that they are becoming less active.

For recruiters, the new financial reality seems to have led to more of them embracing job boards – for the first time since our research began in 2008 they have become the number one route to market, with CV search proving the most popular feature.

Other key findings in the report include: Continue reading “Jobseekers Concerned, Recruiters Becoming More Resourceful – Exclusive Recruitment Research” »

Jobsite’s summer 2011 quarterly review of job seekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour, plus business confidence in the recruitment market, is now available to download.

The report – run for us by independent brand tracking agency HPI – shows the most recent developments in the ways job seekers are going about their search.
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We recently published our Spring 2011 quarterly review of job seekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour plus business confidence in the recruitment market. You can download the report here.

The report is run for us by independent brand tracking agency HPI, and shows some interesting shifts in the way that most job seekers are going about their search. Here are 7 key findings:

• There has been an increase in active job seeking. Just over 50% now say that they are actively looking for a new role, and are likely to move in the next 12 months. Continue reading “How Is Your Job Hunt Changing?” »

Our Winter 2010 quarterly review of job seekers’ changing attitudes and behaviour, plus business confidence in the recruitment market is available to download here.

This Winter 2010 report, run by independent brand tracking agency HPI, shows a different picture to that of the previous report published in October 2010.

Key findings from the report include:

• Online job boards continue to be the most popular resource for job seekers
• The number of job seekers using more than 5 job boards is at its highest level
• Job seekers are becoming increasingly proactive with more making their CV searchable so employers can contact them
• Job seekers indicated location specific search was a highly desired service, second to CV upload
• The number of vacancies being advertised has declined further, with a drop in those being advertised online
• Large corporates (employing 250+) are bucking the trend with an increase in vacancies this wave
• The cost saving potential of job boards has become increasingly important to businesses, back up to November 2009 levels
• Usage of applicant tracking tools on job boards has experienced the largest growth, rising to the third most popular service for businesses
• Businesses using personal networks and recruitment agencies to fill vacancies has experienced the most growth, but online job boards and newspaper advertising remain the most popular methods

Take a look at the Winter 2010 Online Recruitment Quarterly Market Tracker report, to see the changes in business and job seeker behaviour or download it for free here jobsite.co.uk/Winter2010report

Our next piece of research will be available in Spring 2011, so make sure you visit our Insider blog for the latest updates.

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