A recent survey has highlighted that 75% of jobseekers use personal contacts in their search for further employment.

Social media remains an enigma.  Job boards are prevalent.  Good news for recruiters.  Print is dead.

Specialist careers website, Top-consultant.com, sampled 138 companies and 1,088 jobseekers in a recent survey, which aimed to unlock the multi-channels now available to individuals looking for a new job.  The survey looked at jobseeker and recruiter ‘habitual activity’.

Here are the highlights:

Jobseeker headline results:

A gradual change in job-seeking habits.  Multi-channel but the web has hugely impacted on print and social has been a slow to gain acceptance:

• 75% used personal contacts/referrals when last finding a job
• 70% used a recruitment consultancy
• 68% a job board
• 43% now use/reference employer/company career sites
• 23% social media
• 22% print

When you applied to a company career site – what prompted the visit?

• 55% knew firm, surfed direct
• 25% saw a job board advert
• 19% personal recommendation

In your next search how will you find a job?

• Personal contacts/referrals
• Recruitment agencies
• Job boards
• Employer/corporate careers site
• Social media
• Print

Recruiter headline results

A decent – rather than spectacular – improvement in hiring conditions:

• 31.2% expect to make considerably more hires than last year
• 45.7 slightly more hires than last year
• 13% same number of hires
• Only 10% making less

The type of consultants being hired will change:

• Public sector hiring will plummet
• Financial services will be back at pre-2008 levels
• Strategy Consulting will pick up significantly
• IT shortages addressed

Retention to deteriorate increasing hiring needs

• 38% expect staff turnover to increase in 2010

Two additional factors impact on 2010 recruiting – resourcing constraints and an exodus of candidates

• Most firms want to hire fee earning consultants
• Over 10% of consultants expect to leave the industry

Jobseekers, what sources are you using to find your next position?  Are these results reflective of your own searches?

Source: JobSiteAdvisor.com

Edited by Simon Lewis | Editor | Only Marketing Jobs

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