About a month ago I posted on an article from Weedle’s regarding job boards & recruiting. In their latest newsletter, they have surveyed 1,063 people on how many times per month they visit an employment site on the Internet. Here are their finding’s:
35% visited a job board 13+ times/month, 20% visited such sites 5-8 times/month, 18% visited them 2-4 times/month, 17% visited job boards 9-12 times/month, 8% visited these sites 1 time/month, and 2% said they visited job boards 0 times/month.
As you can see about 72% visit job boards at least once per month, 55% visit them about twice a week and 35% visit the sites roughly three times a week. Now if we tie this information into their previous newsletter which showed people spend at least twenty minutes per visit viewing the site that would mean that over 50% devote more than one hour per week on the job boards.
So what does this mean? Even though you may feel your people are happy working for you, chances are that half of your employees are looking at job postings, researching companies, updating their resume or responding to employment ads.