Recruiting methods don’t matter if you are a small or big business or a huge corporation, but if you have not gone mobile recruitment methods, you are definitely way behind in the candidate’s line of a prospective employer. The trend has already started - a considerable portion of the talent comes to your company via a mobile recruiting experience. Candidates access your career website on mobile, apply on mobile, and communicate with your recruiters & hiring managers on mobile. Start using smartphone for hiring & engagement. This opens up a huge opportunity to attract and engage the right talent. So, if your company doesn’t have one, you should be writing an email to the manager suggesting your company employ a mobile strategy for talent engagement and acquisition.
94% of candidates want to see current job openings on the mobile career site.
72% of visitors to a mobile career site expect to find a description of the company culture.
45% candidates are drawn to mobile career sites, incorporate it. Offer 24/7 updates and notifications.
54% employees read company reviews from employees on their mobiles.
52% candidates research salary information.
75.4% of the recruiters never asked about candidate experience prior to the survey.
45% of job seekers use their mobile device specifically to search for jobs at least once a day. Having a mobile career site makes it easier for the candidates to apply for jobs and as a result, you have better candidate pool.
68% of the candidates rated the employers with 3 or more stars out of 5 on their overall candidate experience.
80% of those candidates weren’t hired.
According Harvard Business Review, “Humans are very good at eliciting information — but they’re bad at weighing the results, a simple equation outperforms human decisions by at least 25%.
89% believe a mobile device is an important tool for job searching.
43% of candidates lie on their resume about Salary (27%), Time spent in a job (15%), Skills (17%), Previous job responsibilities (19%), and Credentials (12%)
Researchers predict that world’s population roughly 7.5 billion will be surpassed by the number of mobile devices by 2016.