What is Mobile

Recruitment?

And is Mobile Recruit-ment already here?

Opinions are still controversial.

But can you change the facts?

2000%The rate of mobile web growth

over desktop internet (in 2 years)

And Mobile search is growing

more than 200% year-on-year..

…it is expected to overtake searches on desktop PCs by

…it is expected to overtake searches on desktop PCs by

2014

Already at the end of last year more smartphones were sold than PCs

If you deliver news and alerts, only through mobile you can reach the pockets of

of the planet 33%

86% of mobile internet users are using their devices while watching TV

By 2010 mobile had passed every other technology in its number of users subscriptions

Today, in April 2012, it has 6 Billion, in a

planet of 7 Billion people!

00000000000000France thinks of using 14 digits mobile phone

numbers by 2014 as there seems to be too much demand for available numbers

Are mobile users ready to be the mobile job seekers?

Only in UK 2.8M access job listings on mobile every month and it is growing fast…

67% of them accessevery day

13M mins per month spent browsing career sites in UK

72%would be

interested in receiving

information on career

opportunities via mobile

52% haven’t applied for job on mobile

BUT79% out of them would like to do that if they could

84% think that companies need to have mobile enabled sites

They want the mobile accessibility

NOW

Users want two things:

they want it

They want better personalised mobile services = apps and web apps

NOW

and again- they want it

Immediacy

are the core factors that will make mobile’s role in job hunting grow

PersonalConvenience

What candidates expect?

Search and matchingJob alerts Track application status

Location based servicesCompany info and connections

Easy way to applyTips for a good application

Contact and communicate with recruiter

Career related eventsSharing on social media

candidates are already seeking for mobile recruitment.

Is your company READY FOR IT?

Mobile cannot be ignored anymore nor in business

neither in Recruitment

The question:

”Should a company have a mobile site?”

”Should a company have a webpage?”

is the same irrelevant as it would be asking

”How can we improve our services through mobile and attract more users/customers by doing so?”

The right question is:

Conclusion:

Mobile cannot be ignored by any industry or company if it doesn’t want to be wiped out from the business in the next 5 years.

It is replacing the traditional web and it is doing it really fast.

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