Can anyone point me in the direction of articles published about how (or if?) people use the internet to search for jobs? I seem to come across a lot on telework, but not necessarily people looking for employment. Many thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L.M. Kennedy PhD Candidate and NetLab Research Associate Department. of Sociology University of Toronto, Ontario www.netwomen.ca/Blog tkennedy@netwomen.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has at least one report about this: "Online Job Hunting" http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Jobhunt_Memo.pdf press release summarizing findings of this report: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/46/press_release.asp Janet Sternberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Associate Chair Department of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University T Kennedy wrote:
Can anyone point me in the direction of articles published about how (or if?) people use the internet to search for jobs? I seem to come across a lot on telework, but not necessarily people looking for employment.
Many thanks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L.M. Kennedy PhD Candidate and NetLab Research Associate Department. of Sociology University of Toronto, Ontario www.netwomen.ca/Blog tkennedy@netwomen.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hi Tracy (et al), I do work for an online job board in the States (and before that for a Latin American job board) and in my experience there are not too many studies about the "how". In what has to do with the "if", yes, people do use the internet for job hunting, but there enourmous differences between countries, levels of "online exposure/skills" among job seekers (and those levels -expert, medium and novice have a terrible influence in the "how") and last but not least between professions..., i.e. in a study made by the Florida Hospital Association in 2001 they do find the online recruitment as one of the most effective ones (see page 4 of http://www.fha.org/acrobat/findingnurses.pdf ) what is amazing considering is not a profession so much "online" as IT's, for example. Other professions, like lawyers or architects are not so active online for jobhunting -not so demanded by online job postings. There are also some few references (mostly percentage of use for...) at the UCLA Internet report from 2001 (http://ccp.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA-Internet-Report-2001.pdf , pages 18 and 27) Jupiter research (www.jupiteresearch.com) has also some studies about use of online Job Boards but sadly they are not for free (and most of them seem to analyze the recruiter's use of the online tools and not so much the job seekers use of them). If you have more specific questions, feel free to contact me directly. I would be glad to help with some insights if you are interested in the usability side (my area) but I believe that it would be better to do it off-list in order to avoid boring the rest of the group. :) I hope this helps, best regards, Sandra PS: sorry for my English that is not my native language. ----- Original Message ----- From: "T Kennedy" <tkennedy@netwomen.ca> To: <air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:51 PM Subject: [Air-l] online job searches
Can anyone point me in the direction of articles published about how (or if?) people use the internet to search for jobs? I seem to come across a lot on telework, but not necessarily people looking for employment.
Many thanks
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tracy L.M. Kennedy PhD Candidate and NetLab Research Associate Department. of Sociology University of Toronto, Ontario www.netwomen.ca/Blog tkennedy@netwomen.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Tracy, I'm doing a paper/book chapter on this at the mo which should be out as a Chimera working paper any day. These are the ones I found. I was expecting more, maybe I didn't look in the right places.... Some are replicates of the ones people already sent. B Bortnick, S., & Harrison Ports, S. (1992). Job search methods of the unemployed, 1991. Monthly Labor Review, 115(12), 29-35. Boyce, A., & Rainie, L. (2002). Online job hunting. Washington DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project. Freeman, R. (2002). The labour market in the new information economy. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 18(3), 288-305. Gallup Europe. (2002). Flash Eurobarometer 135: Internet and the Public at Large - Results and Comments. Kuhn, P., & Skuterud, M. (2000). Job search methods: Internet versus traditional. Monthly Labor Review, 123(10), 3-11. Kuhn, P., & Skuterud, M. (2004). Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations. American Economic Review, 94(1), 218-232. Mariani, M. (2003). Job search in the age of Internet: Six jobseekers in search of employers. Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 47(2), 2-17. On 7 Oct 2004, at 00:51, T Kennedy wrote:
Can anyone point me in the direction of articles published about how (or if?) people use the internet to search for jobs? I seem to come across a lot on telework, but not necessarily people looking for employment.
as if by magic: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/content/Pubs/wps/CWP-2004-12-Job-Health- Info.pdf On 7 Oct 2004, at 11:04, Ben Anderson wrote:
Tracy, I'm doing a paper/book chapter on this at the mo which should be out as a Chimera working paper any day.
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