"A total of 1,270 people participated in our survey. Here's how they think they'll be successful in future job search campaigns:
- 57.6% Responding to an ad posted on an Internet job board
- 16.8% Networking at business and social events
- 7.2% Responding to an ad posted on an employer’s Web-site
- 7.6% Sending a resume to an employer by mail
- 3.9% Receiving a call from a headhunter
- 1.9% Receiving a call from a staffing firm
- 1.9% Attending a career fair
- 1.6% Responding to a newspaper ad
- 0.7% Joining a social networking site
There are a number of stunning changes in the thinking of job seekers:
Newspapers, once the primary domain of job hunters, have become unimportant in their mind.
Receiving a call from a recruiter out of the blue, a methodology used by search professionals to identify top talent, has become a “trivial pursuit” of theirs.
Networking remains an important approach to finding work.
More than half of you expect to find a job via a web ad. I expect that this percentage also includes people who post their resumes on the web because that alternative is not included among possible answers.
More than 15% expected to have success through direct contact with an employer, either through mailing (GASP!) a resume or their website. Company websites are becoming more important in the scheme of job hunting. This gives an advantage to well-known companies who are not necessarily the places where greatest job growth is occurring.
A product like my new meta job lead tool, Job Search Universe, which concurrently searches over 800 sites and growing can go a long way to simplify your search.
Jeff Altman
The Big Game Hunter
Concepts in Staffing
jeffaltman@cisny.com
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in technology, accounting, finance, sales, marketing and other disciplines since 1971. He is a certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.
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