In our most recent survey, we asked our users if they were hoping for a kiss at their Christmas party this year and if a kiss could lead to a promotion in the New Year.
We found 43% of respondents are hoping to kiss a work colleague at the office Christmas party and that 1 in 3 people felt that if they managed to kiss their boss at their Christmas party it could lead to a promotion in the New Year. Are people really that desperate to exploit this kind of behaviour in an effort to build their career?
Our survey asked over 1,000 users in the lead up to Christmas.
It is a funny way of thinking because really only the outcome of having too many drinks and kissing work colleagues is embarrassment and awkwardness when it is time to go back into the office.
We would love to hear about what happened at your Christmas do? Did anyone embarrass themselves? Did anyone kiss the boss? Let us know….
We are very pleased to announce a record breaking figure for our job count. We are currently standing at an impressive 531,275 live jobs.
Our jobs can be found across any of the 83 countries from around the world, from Europe to Australasia and in any of the 61 industry sectors that we cover.
To check out these jobs now, you can search online at:
To post a job to our network, you can click here:
In a recent survey by TipTopJob, it was found that most jobseekers would visit a "job board" in the first instance when looking for a new job.
The survey asked 847 jobseekers where they would you go first when looking for a new job. 28% of respondents said "job boards". This highlights how job boards have become more common place in today's jobseeker market and more well-known given that jobseekers visit them directly. This figure would certainly not have been so high 5 years ago.
27% said they would visit a "search engine" first which of course may lead to a jobseeker then finding a job board but also other methods like job aggregators or recruitment agencies.
16% of jobseekers would go to a "recruitment agency" first, 14% would go "direct" and 4% would use their "friends or acquaintance network".
Mike Dauncey, comments, "Interestingly, 10% said they would use "social media" in the first place. Although social media is not the most obvious place to go to look for a new job, it will become more mainstream in the future (especially in the younger generation) as more recruiters and direct clients use the social networks to advertise and recruit and as people use the social media sites to network about potential roles amongst friends and acquaintances."
Did anyone see "National Hug Your Boss Day" in the news on the 23rd August? Here at TipTopJob, we were all to happy to have a hug with our bosses and colleagues. We created the day back in 2008 to promote workplace relationships.
On a couple of the surveys we had run prior to the 2013 National Hug Your Boss Day we found that most people backed up our theory. 86% of respondents said that if they were happy with their boss that they are more productive. Second to this, top of the list of options to the question "What makes you more productive at work?" was "Good Working Relationships".
Another interesting survey result found that 55% of women would prefer to hug another woman. When asking men the same question, 62% would prefer to hug a woman.
Hug of the month went to Choice FM, whose photo you can see on the homepage of the website. CBS 42's Kate Muse and Kaitlin McCullet celebrated the day by hugging their news Director, Bill Payer.
You can check out more hugs sent in this year in the Gallery on the website:
And more interaction on our Facebook page:
We would love to hear of any more hugs we missed so do let us know if they are not currently shown and we hoped you all enjoyed the day this year. We look forward to celebrating again next year :)
In a recent survey conducted by TipTopJob.com, it was found that 40% of UK citizens could last 6 months or more on their savings if they were to lose their job. On the other hand, in the UK, the same number (40%) couldn’t last more than a month.
The findings went on to survey jobseekers and employees across the UK, USA, Australia, Canada, India and South Africa.
A huge 70% of citizens in India have less than one month’s savings. In Australia 54% could only last one month, in the USA 52%, in Canada 38% and South Africa 44%.
In India, only 10% could last more than 6 months but this was closely followed by 13% of individuals in Canada. In South Africa, 22% of people could last more than 6 months.
Across the world, with people being careful with what they are spending it is not surprising that there is not a higher % that could last more than 6 months. However, with the economic problems, in some cases maybe individuals have felt they have had to save their money in case they were to lose their job.
Mike Dauncey, comments, “A thought-provoking survey and interesting results comparing Country to Country. We will repeat this survey each year to see how the results may differ as time goes on. I am sure we will see an increase in the % of those able to last 6 months or more as time goes on.”