70% Expect to Find Their Next Job Through a Job Board
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I’m an active member of the International Association of Employment Web Sites — the only association for job boards. Peter Weddle, our executive director, surveyed job seekers to find out where they found their last job. Job seekers are far more likely to know than employers as the vast majority of employers don’t track their sources of hire at all or do so in a way that is fundamentally flawed. I was expecting something like 10 to 20 percent to identify job boards as their source but 34 percent said they found their last job through a job board and when asked where they expect to find their next job, almost 70 percent said a job board! Here are the numbers:
How did you find your last job?
- 34% on an Internet job board
- 10% through a call from a headhunter
- 9.3% by networking
- 8.7% through a referral from an employee of the organization
- 8.0% in the print or online edition of a newspaper
- 3.0% by starting your own company and creating the job
- 2.9% from an ad posted on the employer’s Web-site
How do you expect to find your next job?
- 69.7% on an Internet job board
- 7.8% by networking at home or work
- 3.9% through a call from a headhunter
- 3.9% by sending a resume to the employer
- 3.2% from an ad posted on the employer’s Web-site
- 3.2% through a referral from an employee of the organization
- 1.9% by networking at social events/venues
Source: http://www.employmentwebsites.org/research-our-industry
