The latest online recruitment study from workthing.com reveals that jobseekers and employers are talking at cross-purposes when they meet on the web. Online jobseekers say that the most important criteria for them concern whether an employer can offer financial security, good career prospects and competitive pay packages.
But only 37% of company websites refer to financial performance, a mere 29% offer any clues about career progression and less than half (43%) bother to disclose pay and benefits packages.
Some 9.7m jobseekers expect to find their next job through the web. Andy Baker, managing director of Workthing, which is part of the Guardian Media Group, says: To impress internet jobseekers, companies need to understand how their design, content, usability and response handling processes play a role in forming these candidates'' opinion of their business as a place to work.
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