46% of people are lucky enough to have less than a 30 minute commute into
work, as found in our latest survey results on TipTopJob.com. 21% of these
individuals travel to work within 10 minutes.
12% travel between 1 and 2 hours each way and 19% travel between 30 minutes
and 1 hour.
Those not so fortunate however include over 22% who travel over 2 hours
into and back from their workplace each time. This can total a minimum of 4
hours of travelling every day! For people commuting on the train this can be a
positive experience if they can open a laptop to carry on working, catch up on
admin or read a book to relax.
How long is your commute?
Do you get the train and how do you spend your time travelling?
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?
Our recent survey has found that 80% had never told a white
lie on their CV or Resume.
Our interest in such a question was sparked by a recent
story about students being threatened with jail for embellishing their CVs.
According to CIFAS, the UK fraud prevention service, 324 people were actually
prosecuted in 2013 for fraudulent applications.
The survey unfortunately exposes 20% who are still admitting
to lying. This may relate to a “white” lie, for example, better A level grades
or improved job titles or indeed something else more sinister like creating a
whole new job role.
Have you lied? Do you know someone who has lied? What was it
about? Let us know….
Our final survey relating to National Hug Your Boss Day is complete and results are out!
We asked our users if they thought that a hug could lead to an office romance. It was almost a 50/50 split in responses with only a fraction (53%) more thinking that YES, it could lead to romance.
Well, of course it could, but does that really mean the romance has come about because of the hug? No probably not. If you have an office fancy, then you have an office fancy. Maybe a HUG just makes you feel like you want to make something out of it.
On another note, if you are having an affair at work, do you avoid hugs in front of co-workers to dodge suspicion? Or are you not bothered about people talking?
Have you been involved in an office fling? Did or do you hug at work? Tell us more....
In a surprising recent survey conducted across our network
of sites, we found that 39% of those responding felt that the “directive – do it
my way” approach to management was more motivating over any other style. It was
the most popular response by 12%.
Second to the “directive” approach was the “participative –
everyone has input” which we thought would actually take the first position.
27% felt that was the most motivating.
The “pacesetting – do it myself” approach was the least
popular with only 4% of respondents choosing it and the “affiliative – people first,
task second” ended up with 6%.
11% chose the “authoritative – firm but fair” and 13% chose
the “coaching – developmental” option.
When putting this question together, the obvious answer to
what motivates you the most would be the “participative – everyone has input”
in our eyes but it seems that people need more direction than that to motivate them
at work.
What do you think ?
62% of the reserved UK workforce say they wont be sending a co-worker a Valentines Day card on Friday.
Over the last 2 weeks, we surveyed around 500 people to ask them if they were going to send a Valentines Day card or present to a co-worker or boss. There always seems to be some “fancying” going on in the office so we wanted to know if people take it to the next step and show their love openly or secretly to that special person. This survey suggests most people don't!
38% however say that they would send a card or present which is still quite a healthy proportion of people. Watch out on Friday as you could be that special person!!!!!
After the recent changes to allow Bulgarians and Romanians the right to work freely across the EU, we asked our users the question "How will allowing Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants to work anywhere in the EU impact other European workers’ abilities to find a new job?".
The results have just come in and 50% of our users feel there will be a positive impact on other European workers abilities to find a new job. 29% believe that it would create no change and 21% felt there would be a negative impact.
Studies have predicted that it could mean a shift in labour wages for lower paid workers which would mean a negative impact to those in lower paid jobs. All predictions/suggestions are speculation though and it is difficult to know exactly what affects there will be until it happens.
How do you think these changes will affect jobseekers? Let us know your thoughts....
95% of people say that finding a new job is their New Years’ resolution this January, finds a recent survey by TipTopJob.com. The survey asked over 1,000 users of the site. That leaves only 5% of people who have a New Years’ resolution related to something else.
January is always the busiest month when people are determined to organise their life and set themselves goals for the year. Putting off finding a new job is the easy option as it can be a difficult process but why not in January, when you are feeling motivated, get a plan into place and make things happen?
Have you already made it happen? Are you in the process of making this happen?
If you need some help putting your CV together, check out our Career Centre today for some useful hints and tips: https://www.tiptopjob.com/displaycontent/sectionid/15/contentid/796_-career-centre
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….
When looking for a new job, corporate social responsibility of an organisation may not even enter your mind and it may not be something a lot of companies have time to think about but when considering large corporate organisations it is somewhat quite significant.
In our most recent survey, we asked 1,000 respondents what they felt was the most important to them when assessing CSR within an organisation. We found that “value to customers” was the more important category within Corporate Social Responsibility in the employees/jobseekers eyes.
The top response was 39% who said “value to customers” was the most important. This was closely followed by “acting responsibly” where 25% responded. 16% felt “treating employees well” was important.
Only 3% responded with “partnering with suppliers”, this was the least important factor. Only 8% felt “Investing in communities” was important and 9% felt “respecting the environment” was important.
If you were looking for a new job and checking out what the organisation got involved with in terms of its corporate social responsibility, what would be the most important factor for you? Would you agree that “value to customers” is the most important factor? Do you think “partnering with suppliers” is the least most important factor?