IAEWS 2010 Employer Survey
 

1. Introduction

 
Welcome to the IAEWS 2010 Employer Survey.

The online employment services industry represents a wide array of organizations including commercial job boards, associations, newspapers and other publications, recruitment advertising agencies, job ad aggregators, and site platform providers. These organizations are committed to providing the highest level of service to their customers. To that end, the IAEWS - the trade association for their industry - solicits your input on the following survey. Please be assured that your responses will be strictly confidential and results will be provided only in the aggregate. We hope you'll participate and thank you for doing so.

1. Job boards will need to better justify their offerings to maintain their price points.

2. Job boards will need to revamp and/or expand their offerings to keep your business.

3. You would be interested in for-fee services from job boards, such as resume screening and candidate
matching.

4. Job boards must invest in relevant, robust and provocative content to attract attention from the caliber of candidates you would want to recruit.

5. Social media/networking will become a primary method of recruting for your company within the next 5 years.

6. You believe that LinkedIn has already eclipsed job boards for professional recruiting.

7. You believe that Facebook's phenomenal growth as a recruiting platform will continue unabated.

8. You believe that Twitter and sites like it will become significant vehicles for recruiting.

9. You believe that with its massive number of job-related searches daily, Google is in control of candidate and employer behaviors.

10. You want to know about a job board's search engine optimization (SEO) strategy before you buy.

11. You want to know about a job board's search engine marketing (SEM) strategy before you buy.

12. You predict that pay-for-performance (# of clicks, applications, hires) will replace job posting fees in the future.

13. You are willing to pay search firm fees for the guarantee of hires.

14. You are increasingly interested in highly targeted, one-to-one recruitment strategies that build relationships with candidates.

15. To avoid public exposure and/or too many candidate responses, you are using "quiet recruiting" as a
strategy.

16. Job boards will go the way of newspapers after this recession.

17. The information in the following four questions will be used for comparative analysis only.
Please indicate your current title below.

18. Please indicate your industry:

19. Please indicate your company or organization's size:

20. Please indicate your staffing projections for 2010: