How
People Are Finding Jobs
Some interesting stats are in from a couple of trusted Internet
sources, WEDDLE's (www.weddles.
WEDDLE's 2008 Source of Employment Survey ran from March 2007 to March 2008 and generated responses from over 15,600 individuals. The respondents were 65% male, 35% female; they had a median age of 40-45, with more than 60% describing themselves as managers, mid-level professionals, or executives.
When asked to identify where they found their last job, the respondents listed the following sources as their Top 10 (not all sources are listed so the percentages will not total to 100%):
13.3% Ad posted on an Internet job board
7.0% Tip from a friend
6.8% Other
6.3% Newspaper ad
6.2% Posted their resume on a job board
6.0% Call from a headhunter
5.8% Referred by an employee of the company
5.2% Sent a resume to the company
4.9% Career fair
4.8% Networking at work.
If you combine "tip from a friend" and "referral by an employee
of the company" you get nearly the same number as the #1
response, "ad posted on an Internet job board". This implies
that networking should receive the same amount of attention as
surfing online postings, and begs the questions: Are you
spending an equal amount of time networking? And, if not, how
can you make that happen?
Salary.com released its recent Employee Job Satisfaction & Retention Survey. Among the individual employee respondents, 7,101 were employed and provided valid responses. Of those, 57% indicated they are “somewhat” or “very” likely to intensify their job search in the next 3 months, down slightly from last year's 62%.
Here are the most popular job search activities that employees
are involved in, in order of preference:
46% are surfing online job postings
42% are updating their resume
32% are reading classified employment listings
32% are networking with friends/colleagues
27% are posting or emailing resumes
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