According to a recent survey by eQuest, most job seekers are hunting for a job on Tuesday and Wednesday, and fewer people look for work on the weekend. The overall data makes it clear that people are looking for work while at work, and not on their time off.
You might think this is a bit strange, but we’ve seen the same trend at Standout Jobs. Our traffic and the applications our customers receive definitely drop over the weekends. eQuest thinks the data is useful because it will help them consult with customers on when to post jobs. And they recommend posting jobs on “…Sunday evening or early mornings on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.”
We haven’t analyzed our data yet - in terms of exactly which days and times are see the most applications - but it wouldn’t surprise me if our data concurred with this survey.
People are looking for work while at work.
People are researching companies, scoping the scene out and keeping up-to-date on trends in their industry (which is basically a form of job seeker, whether you’d like to believe it or not!) while at work.
At home, they’re taking a break…
That is interesting. My experience shows that there are the most job seekers hunting for a job on Monday.
Hmmm… from a job seekers perspective, I am hesitant to apply for jobs on the weekend because my perception (so far) has been that recruiters/companies are flooded by applications on Monday morning, and it is tougher to stand out. So I tend to apply Monday-Wednesday; but reading this article, I think I will start applying on the weekend now!!
Why are people wasting company time to job hunt? How ungrateful is that? I just want a job, period. I can not even get interviews.
People that do this have a very poor work ethic and shame on any of the employers that hire them. The new employer probably get stiffed by them anyway, when they job hunt again. People, employers and workers, need to wise up.
People look for jobs while at work in the same way that people browse Myspace and Facebook while on duty. Free Internet Access!
At CoNotes, we’ve actually seen Monday’s as our most popular day for job searching (reinforcing what Paul mentioned above).
Below is a blog post about job search patterns we’ve noticed:
http://www.conotes.com/blog/mondays-got-you-down