Observing the Popularity of Job Listing Sites and Applications

Since the internet has begun to be widely used in the country, to be precise around the early 2000s, there have been many job seekers who have taken advantage of this site job listings local to foreign to find a career place. This proves that the search for job vacancies online has begun to be chosen by many users.

In 2017, technology has become more advance, as well as options and alternatives for finding job vacancies. Not just a site job listings, but applications to social media, have become the choice.

DailySocial together with Jakpat launch the results survey which involved 994 respondents, most of whom were Millennial related to the habitual use of online job search sites and applications.

Site job listings popular

The first thing to pay attention to is that up to now the site job listings which have existed since the early 2000s such as Jobstreet (60.00%), Careers (44.06%) to JobsDB (37.22%) are still the three most popular choices for job seekers to find suitable vacancies. Temporary site job listings which is relatively new, is starting to be noticed by some job seekers. Among them are, WorkDulu (10.87%), Karirpad (9.05%), Jofom (5.94%) to Jora and Creasi (5.33%).

In addition to using the site job listings, there are also many job seekers who find job vacancies through news sites such as DailySocial (21.63%) to Kompas Karer (31.09%). This proves that information on relevant vacancies on each of these news sites has begun to be chosen by job seekers.

To get more accurate information, many respondents (74.65%) said they saw directly the available vacancies through the official website of the targeted company.

Search via social media and online chat

Another interesting thing is the presence of LinkedIn which has provided a new alternative for job seekers, or those who simply "see" the desired job vacancies, even though they still have jobs. However, not too many people are looking for work specifically through LinkedIn, only around (30.28%) of respondents said they were looking for work through Linkedin.

Other options used by respondents are online chat groups such as WhatsApp (52.11%), Telegram (13.58%), Facebook Groups (44.47%), Line Groups (30.89%). While the rest (29.07%) admit that they have never used online group chat to find work.

Chance for job listings in the informal sector

On the other hand, the survey findings indicate that most job seekers for formal jobs use technology a lot when looking for work. Meanwhile, for job seekers in the informal sector (60.66%) there are still not many who use the site to job listing applications.

This is something startups such as Sejasa (23.34%), Tukang.com (22.94%) to Findtukang (10.56%), to be more aggressive in carrying out marketing activities targeting job seekers in the informal sector.

Download the full survey results report: Job Recruitment Sites & Services Survey 2017