Fun Facts Friday

10 Interesting Job Search Facts!

Looking for a new job and only relying on Monster.com or the employment office for help? Consider this:

1. Mailing resumes to company staffing departments accounts for only 3 percent of a company’s hires.

2. Newspapers only give around 7 percent of hiring results.

3. 12 percent of job hires come form search firms and employment agencies.

4. 25 percent of hiring results come from networking and employee referrals.

5. The Internet accounts for 33 percent of hiring results.

6. Web sites such as Monster, HotJobs, Yahoo! or CareerBuilder. account for 22.8 percent of all jobs found on the Internet.

7. Niche Boards account for 16.9 percent of jobs found on the Internet.

8. 53.3 percent of jobs found on the Internet are found on company websites.

9. There are more than 40,000 Internet job and career Web sites.

10. A joint survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the Wall Street Journal’s CareerJournal.com showed that nearly 95 percent of job seekers and human resource professionals use personal contact and networking to find and fill positions.

(JIST, © 2006), by Richard H. Beatty., To go to the original post CLICK HERE