Net that job
If I left you in a room full of all the newspapers with job adverts, all the company recruitment brochures I could find and a sizeable helping of UK employment agency listings, would that help you find the job you wanted? Perhaps you would get lucky, pick one up at random and find just what you were looking for. But the chances are you would come away with nothing more than a feeling of immense frustration.
Knowing that what you want is there somewhere but being unable to find it is a common experience amongst job hunters using the Internet. Many have given up in despair after spending time on sites that promise thousands of vacancies but are unable to come up with one that suits.
There’s no doubt, however, that using the web for recruitment is growing in popularity with both job seekers and employers, offering huge advantages to both. It’s a cheap, fast and effective way of getting relevant information to the people who need it.
Surveys show that around half of all UK employers now use the Internet for recruitment and in some areas such as graduate recruitment the figure is higher. Two thirds of companies recruiting graduates now accept online applications according to this year’s employment trends study from The Association of Graduate Recruiters. They also found that more than three quarters of all final year students had used the Internet for job search. In the UK this is the fourth most popular use of the Internet after email, shopping and booking holidays.
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