During my week of Tweets, I posted a poll that gauged the usability and satisfaction rates among HR professionals and recruiters in their use of job boards and other online recruiting platforms.
These are the results:
1) Which of the following best describes you :
- Contingent or retained recruiter 31.2%
- President, CEO, Chairman, Principal (non recruiter) 6.5%
- Chief HR Officer 16.5%
- Vice President of HR, Personnel 19.3%
- Assistant/Associate Vice President of HR 13.3%
- Other 13.2%
2) Do you play a role in either the recruitment of employees for either your own organization or for a client’s organization?
- Yes 86.7%
- No 13.3%
3) The pricing models and value provided by online job boards satisfies my online recruiting needs.
- Strongly agree 8.8%
- Moderately agree 16.5%
- Undecided 6.3%
- Moderately disagree 33.3%
- Strongly disagree 35.1%
4) When posting a job online, the “pay to post” model yields good results with consistent value.
- Strongly agree 13.3%
- Moderately agree 6.9%
- Undecided 13.7%
- Moderately disagree 33.9%
- Strongly disagree 32.2%
5) Searching resume databases often uncovers quality candidates
- Strongly agree 6.7%
- Moderately agree 12.1%
- Undecided 6.5%
- Moderately disagree 20.0%
- Strongly disagree 54.7%
6) Most job boards provide useful tools which allow me/us to manage and make hiring efficient.
- Strongly agree 15.4%
- Moderately agree 16.2%
- Undecided 4.1%
- Moderately disagree 28.0%
- Strongly disagree 36.3%
7) Most online job boards provide a quality service to job seekers and employers.
- Strongly agree 6.7%
- Moderately agree 11.5%
- Undecided 6.7%
- Moderately disagree 42.7%
- Strongly disagree 32.4%
I would prefer a pay for performance pricing model online where I only pay if I find a suitable candidate for my job.
- Strongly agree 39.2%
- Moderately agree 22.2%
- Undecided 4.8%
- Moderately disagree 7.3%
- Strongly disagree 26.5%
9) Do you use an applicant tracking system or software to manage the hiring process?
- Yes 22.4%
- No 77.6%
10) My/our current online job board or recruiting platform provides a built in applicant tracking system.
- Yes 6.7%
- No 93.3%
11) If you answered no the previous question, would it be helpful to you if your current online recruiting platform or preferred job board(s) were merged with an applicant tracking system?
- Yes 78.1%
- No 21.9%
12) Most online job boards have enough traffic to provide value to job seekers and employers.
- Strongly agree 6.1%
- Moderately agree 5.9%
- Undecided 22.2%
- Moderately disagree 22.6%
- Strongly disagree 43.2%
13) When we do post a job we…
- Pay to post on general job boards 26.4%
- Pay to post on a vertical or geographic focused job boards 20.1%
- Pay to post in a local/regional online newspaper 13.4%
- Pay to post in a local/regional print newspaper 6.6%
- Post on free job boards or classified sites 33.5%
14) When it comes to trying new online job boards or recruiting platforms, where do you stand?
- I like what I have and do not care to try anything new. 7.8%
- I like what I have but would consider new options. 23.5%
- I am not satisfied with main stream technology/pricing/models and want something new. 68.7%
Total Respondents: 3,456
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Wow, not to many people happy with job boards. It seems out of the thousands of online recruiting tools, people can’t seem to catch a break. I read other survey on recruiting and still the referral system ranks the highest amongst the recruiting tactics.