Our most recent survey of around 1000 people over the last 2
weeks asked “When looking for a new job, where is the first place you would
look?” The options we provided were; job board, recruitment agency, social
network, friend network, direct, newspaper or jobcentre.
Most people clicked “job board” as the first place they
would visit when looking for a new job, in fact 36%. “Recruitment agency” came
in as the second most popular place to look with 24% of the responses. 13% would
use their “social network”, 10% would visit their “jobcentre”, 8% would go “direct”
to the employer, 7% read the “newspaper” and 3% said they would use their “friend
network”.
We were surprised with the results as with so many more
people using social networks today and with their increasing usage, we thought they
would take more of the votes than a mere 13%. Recruitment agencies were two
times more popular as a first choice and job boards almost three times more
popular.
Where would you visit first? If it is a job board, then
which job board is your number one?