Job seekers: Willingness to change & passive application in trend {Trend! Study}

The study "Application Practice 2010" shows: despite Crisis there is a willingness to change among German employees. Passive applications are still on the rise and that Internet becomes the most important information channel at the Job Search.

Many want to change

Although the economic situation is slowly improving and the labor market is still tense, this has only a minor impact on the willingness of German workers to change.

This is shown by the results of the current study “Application Practice 2010”, for which the Center of Human Resources Information Systems (CHRIS) of the Universities of Bamberg and Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with the Online-Career portal Monster surveyed more than 9.000 participants.

More than 50% want to seek new employer

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More than half of those surveyed intend to look around for a new employer in the near future, and around a quarter of those surveyed are actually planning to end their current employment contract in the near future Future to cancel.

Trend towards passive application

This so-called passive application is becoming more and more popular when it comes to exploring your own chances on the job market. Around 40 percent of the interviewed job seekers and those interested in a career would rather be found and approached by a potential employer than actively with one Companys zu apply.

For this purpose, job seekers deposit their Curriculum vitae in a corresponding database of a job portal in which employers search for profiles and then interesting ones Candidates can contact. More than 70 percent of the study participants have already activated their own CV in a corresponding database for employers.

“The fact that the proportion is passive Candidate also increased during the crisis year 2009 shows that this is not an economic phenomenon, but a fundamental one change acts in applicant behavior. The trend is for those interested in careers People prefer to leave the initiative of contacting the companies that have vacancies to fill," explains Prof. Dr. Tim Weitzel from the Chair of Business Informatics at the University Bamberg.

Internet on the advance

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Another trend is the increasing use of Internet job boards. In addition to the search for vacancies, the acquisition of information about employers also plays an important role. In fact, Internet job exchanges are by far the most frequently used information channel when looking for a job - around 72 percent of those surveyed give them clear the preference -, followed by corporate websites with 37,3 percent;

Only slightly more than a third of job seekers in newspapers and magazines (34,6 percent) are informed about job and career topics. Internet job boards are also the channel most respondents think they are looking for when looking for a new job - more than half of those surveyed see big and very big opportunities here. In second place ranked HR consultants and third place acquaintances who make recommendations.

About the “Application Practice” study

The study “Application Practice 2010” is the seventh survey of job seekers since 200 The study series is carried out annually by the Center of Human Resources Information Systems (CHRIS) of the Universities of Frankfurt am Main and Bamberg and Monster Worldwide Germany among more than 9.000 job seekers and those interested in careers.

The complete study “Application Practice 2010” can be found at Monster Worldwide Germany at studien@monster.de can be requested.

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