The largest ever online recruitment survey shows that online job seekers are prepared to be increasingly flexible to get the job that they want.
A surprisingly high percentage – 76% – of UK based online job seekers would relocate overseas to improve their career prospects and would also be prepared to take a course or train to find a new role.
The findings form part of NORAS 2009 – the UK’s largest online recruitment research project, which surveyed more than 50,000 candidates across 31 online job boards.
Interestingly, the most likely job seekers to relocate overseas are Directors or Senior Managers, who constitute nearly one fifth of the total number prepared to relocate. In contrast, those who are prepared to take a course or train to improve their career prospects are more likely to hold more junior positions, constituting 37% of this category.
Online job seekers who would relocate overseas or train to get a job were also more pro–active in their approach to looking for a job, utilising more methods and channels to search for jobs than the average job seeker.
Giles Guest, managing director of Enhance Media, the online recruitment research and strategy company that produces NORAS – “In the current economic climate the competition for vacancies has increased and candidates appear to be increasingly willing to expand their skills and search outside the UK to get the job that they want. The detailed NORAS research helps employers and participating job boards target flexible candidates to fill more complex or difficult roles.”
The NORAS 2009 results are free to download at www.noras.co.uk.
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Information for Editors:
The annual Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) is run by Enhance Media and surveyed over 50,000 online job seekers between September and December 2008.
The NORAS 2009 results are available to download free at www.noras.co.uk. An interactive tool is also available free and combines NORAS audience data with independent ABCe audited web site traffic figures to enable recruiters to compare job sites and choose the right job board for their recruitment needs. Use ‘journalist’ as your user name and ‘journalist’ as your password.
The 31 sites participating in NORAS 2009 are:
| Brand Republic Jobs | Jobs.telegraph.co.uk |
| CIMA MY JOBS | LondonCareers.net |
| Employment4Students | Law Society Gazette |
| eFinancialCareers.com | Public Jobs Direct |
| Eteach.com | PlanetRecruit |
| exec-appointments.com | Prospects.ac.uk |
| executivesontheweb.com | s1jobs |
| fish4Jobs | SecsintheCity.com |
| Grapevine Jobs | The Career Engineer |
| Grocer Jobs | tesjobs |
| Guardian Jobs | The Jobs Mine |
| Gumtree | Times Online – Jobs |
| GAAPweb | Third Sector Jobs |
| jobs.ac.uk | Totally Legal |
| Just Engineers | Workcircle |
| Jobsgopublic |
Established in 2001, Enhance Media is the UK’s leading online recruitment communications consultancy. It provides research, strategy, training and advertising services to recruitment professionals to enable them to recruit more efficiently and cost effectively through the use of technology and online media.
ABC ELECTRONIC was established in 1996 as the industry owned, tri-partite, not for profit organisation, which works on behalf of advertisers, media buyers and media owners to provide third party independent verification and certification for data related to electronic media (Internet, Email, SMS, Interactive TV, WAP, PDA and Streaming audio and video) in the UK and Ireland. (www.abce.org.uk)
NORAS is supported by:
The Internet Advertising Bureau: www.iabuk.net
The Association of Online Publishers: www.ukaop.org.uk
The Association of Graduate Recruiters: www.agr.org.uk
Contacts:
Giles Guest, Enhance Media Limited, 01483 719 020 and 07973 641 747