CareerXroadsí Annual Fortune 500 Study
CareerXroads released the data from its annual survey of the job sections of the Fortune 500 at the annual SHRM Convention. This survey includes a mystery job seeker that applies for a job on each site. What responses did the job seeker get? How are sites improving from year to year? What hoops are job seekers forced to jump through? Read on...
- CareerXroadsí mystery job seeker (with a clearly fictitious resume) received 4 calls requesting interviews.
- Only 2 people out of 100 caught the mystery job seeker - even though his resume was clearly labeled as a mystery job seeker.
- The survey uses volunteers that are currently looking for a job. And the study includes their findings about how well a company targets its prospective employees, how many clicks it takes to get to a job, and the types of content found on the Fortune 500ís job pages.
- CareerXroads Top 25 Rated Company Staffing Pages ñ The 2005 listÖ and a list of those needing most improvement is included as well.
The Top 25 list, Mystery Job Seekerís resume, and statistics about whatís working ñ and whatís not ñ on the job pages of this yearsí Fortune 500 and Fortuneís 100 Best Companies to Work For can all be found in the CareerXroads Study: The Job Seeker Experience & Why You Should Care:
The Good, The Bad, and The (Very) Ugly:
Whoís reading your resume?
Our Mystery Job Seeker finds out - and youíll be surprised at the results
