FACT: Nearly 50% of job seekers go online to find a job - Do you recruit online yet?

If your company is not recruiting online, then quite frankly your are barking mad!! Taleo have just produced some research showing that nearly half of UK job seekers go online when applying for jobs. So if your company is not online you are missing out on getting access to nearly 50% of your potential new employees! (Want to get your jobs online?)

The survey, conducted by Taleo Research, showed that 43% of workers used online tools, such as applying online or sending a CV by email, to apply for their most recent job. Described by Taleo as “Internet Identifiers,” the survey found this group leading the way in how today’s workers prefer to apply for jobs. According to the study, job seekers can be broken down into three main groups, based on how they apply for jobs:

• Internet Identifiers (43%) – Internet savvy job-seekers who actively hunt for jobs by applying online, sending their CV via email to prospects or signing up to an online job board or business networking website
• Hands Off Hunters (38%) – traditional job seekers who rely on head hunters, recruitment agencies and personal contacts to find new jobs
• Traditional Targeters (19%) – more traditional job seekers, who prefer to actively apply for jobs through the post

So if you are one of the (shrinking) 19% of traditional targeters, you seriously need to be thinking of how you are going to change your methods. At the very least, sort out your own website and use it to start recruiting for you - if you don't your competitors will!!