Latest Research Shows Changing Approaches to Job-hunting

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
• Although many jobseekers still use 3 or more job boards, there is some inertia appearing with an increasing number now using just one board
• Browsing for jobs is still the most used job board service, but there has been an increase in the use of e-mailed job offers and specific searches

The return in popularity of e-mailed job offers reflects a desire for timely information about attainable positions, whilst the increase in numbers using only one job board could be triggered by a jump in the number of recruiters using multiple boards.

You can download the Winter 2011 Recruitment Review here and read more…and we’d like to hear your views. Let us know if your job hunt approach is changing, and if so what is prompting the shift?