“Online job sites are the most effective recruitment methods according to MENA professionals, latest Bayt.com research ...” |
| Posted: 19 Jan 2011 07:36 PM PST Dubai, UAE, November 21st, 2010 - More than a third of respondents (34.5%) across the Middle East and North Africa said that online job sites are the most effective recruitment method, according to the latest online poll series conducted by the Middle East's number one job site Bayt.comBayt.com  . The results of the 'Recruitment Methods in the MENA 2010/ 2011' poll also showed that 25.7% of respondents said newspaper jobs ads were the most effective, 11.2% said recruitment agencies, 10.2% said word of mouth, 9% said online job fairs, 6.1% said corporate website job ads, 1.8% said college alumni clubs and 1.6% said traditional job fairs. When asked what percentage of their friends and family had a resume on an online jobsite, 42.7% of respondents said up to 10%, 12.9% said between 10 and 20%, 8.5% said between 20 and 30%, 5.4% said between 30 and 40%, 6.5% said 40% to 50%, and as many as 24% said more than 50% of their friends and family had a resume on an online jobsite. Participants in the poll were asked why they frequent online job sites; 20.2% said it was the fastest, easiest, most effective way to land a job, 12.8% said they allowed them to access jobs outside their country, , 8.2% said because most of them are free to jobseekers, 5% said because they are rich in facts and information on careers, 3.4% said almost all top employers recruit using them today, and 44.1 % said all of the above reasons while 6.3 % said none of the above. The respondents were then asked whether they were passive or active jobseekers. An overwhelming majority (84.4%) answered that they were active while only 13.5% said they were passive. Only 2.1% said they were not seeking a job at all. "As the number one job site in the Middle East, Bayt.comBayt.com When asked what career level online job sites catered to in their opinion, 27.9% said mid-level, 27.3% said senior level, 20.3% said entry level, 18.4% said all of the above while 6.2% were not sure. ''Clearly the region's professionals understand that leading jobsites such as Bayt.comBayt.com When asked if they had any issues with having their resume on a jobsite, 51.2 % of respondents said they did not as they were aware it allowed them the most access to employers. Moreover, when asked if their company recruited using a leading job site, 39.3% of respondents answered yes, indicating the great penetration online recruitment currently enjoys in the region and its wide popularity with the MENA's employers. Finally, in a brilliant testimony to the success of online recruitment in the region, more than 10% of respondents said they themselves knew more than 5 people who had found their jobs online including 7.2% of professionals who knew more than 10 people who had found their jobs online. Data for the 'Recruitment Methods in the MENA 2010/ 2011' poll series was collected online between October 3 and November 10, with a total of 14,487 respondents from across the Middle East. This and other Middle East research, as well as information on Bayt.comBayt.com -Ends- For further enquiries: Gregory Henderson x DISCLAIMER Zawya is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and subscribers. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by those third parties, including information providers, subscribers or other users of the Service, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of the Company. The Company neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Service by anyone other than authorized Service employee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities. The Company is not responsible for any infringement of intellectual property rights or breach of any applicable law or regulation, including regulation in relation to financial services or the distribution of financial products, defamation, data protection, telecommunications (including regulations relating to excessive use, spamming or other abusive activities) or obscene, offensive or illegal content). Under no circumstances will the Company be liable for any loss or damage caused by a member's reliance on information obtained through the Service. It is the responsibility of member to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through the Service. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice or other content. Read the full Member Agreement This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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