📲 5 Facts on the need of 'mobile-first' recruitment in 2024
🤳🏻 According to the Pew Research Center, job seekers with smartphones heavily rely on them during the job search process. While 94% of people use their phones to look for jobs, only 23% use their phones to create resumes or cover letters. This limitation forces most candidates to switch between their phones and computers, making it less convenient to apply for jobs directly from their phones.
❌ This is an significant barrier candidates, which decreases the number of applications companies receive. Although the traditional use of submitting resumes and motivation letters has worked, with increasing mobile usage, the rate at which job seekers are converted into applicants has become far too low.
📆 Employers are aware of this. A new position now takes an average of 27 days to fill.
📵 However, it isn’t as simple as changing the website, but rather, it’s about changing the process to be ‘mobile-first’.
💬 The entire hiring process is demanding a change. A change that can convert employees and put them into the recruitment pipeline within minutes, not weeks. At Bluco, we are helping companies decrease their time-to-hire by 5x, by making recruitment ‘mobile-first’.
Sources: Pew Research Center, SHRM, Glassdoor, Bluco
