Jobsite give us an overview and insight into the current trends in Online recruitment in their key note session at our Building Capability Conference

1. Current Trends in Online Recruitment
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2. Mervyn Dinnen
Jobsite Content & Community Manager
@MervynDinnen
@JobsiteUK
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3. Evenbase Quarterly Recruitment Review
• Based on in-depth, independent online research, carried
out by market research agency HPI
• 500 job seekers and 200 recruiters
• First research in August 2008

4. Job seeker sample
• 50/50 split between active and passive
• Ages range from 23 and 54
• Salaries in range £18,000 – 50,000
• Mix of sectors

5. Business sample
• 75 corporate organisations (250+ employees)
• 75 SMEs (50 – 249 employees)
• 50 SoHos – Small Office/Home Office (10 – 49
employees)
• All respondents have input into hiring decisions, either
solely, jointly or as influencers

6. Mix of company size and decision making
responsibilities

7. 43% of people feel worse about their job situation

8. Smaller businesses increase hiring

9. More faith placed in online resources
• Average number of vacancies per
business increases
• Percentage advertised online increases
from 54% to 70%

10. Online Job Boards still the most favoured route to
market for businesses…

11. …though smaller businesses rely much more on
personal and business networks

12. Job seekers favour job boards and are using
agencies less

13. How job seekers are using job boards
• Browsing for jobs still
top service
• CV Uploads increase
9%
• Research on sectors
and companies also
growing

14. CV uploads and location specific searches
remain their most desired services, with
social and mobile least important…for now!

15. What is most important to businesses when
choosing a job board?

16. Businesses currently prefer using the basic,
no frills job board features of vacancy
advertising, CV searching and display of
print adverts…

17. …and the most desired job board features
also focus on CV services and ad formats

18. The biggest trend affecting the job hunt
process is the continuing rise in
smartphone usage…
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19. Smartphone usage amongst respondents
continues to rise….
…from 47% in May 2010 to 71% in May 2012
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20. A third of job seekers are now using their
smartphones for job seeking activities
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21. 3 most common uses for smartphones in job
hunting
• Browsing jobs online
• Browsing employers’
websites
• Job location searches
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23. Mobile traffic growth – An overview
• The mobile web will grow 8 x faster than the internet grew in the
1990s (Google)
• Mobile data traffic has increased 3000% since 2008 - It’s expected
to grow 40-fold over the next 5 years
• Sales of smartphones will exceed PC sales in 2012
• By April 2012, smartphone ownership had reached 45% of UK
consumers - Plus 9% now own a tablet device
• The average web browsing usage for a UK smartphone user was 4
hours a week

27. “It’s not about mobile but about
understanding mobility.
Mobility means information, convenience,
and social all served up on the go, across a
variety of screen sizes and devices.”
David Armano is EVP, Global Innovation & Integration, at Edelman Digital
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28. 3 key pressures facing job seekers
• Doubt, uncertainty and lack of confidence
• Time and effort
• Staying on top of the search
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29. 3 core job hunting times of the day
• Morning – e-mail alerts, checking opportunities whilst
commuting
• At work – searching more covert, LinkedIn and social
networks more important
• Evening – more detailed searching and research, key
time for passive candidates
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30. In summary…
• Jobseekers increasingly rely on online resources for job
hunting – job boards and company websites
• Posting jobs is still important – particularly for passive
candidates
• Mobile is rapidly becoming the preferred method to
access online information – is your site ready?
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31. Any questions?
Mervyn Dinnen
Jobsite Content & Community Manager
@MervynDinnen
@JobsiteUK
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