Where Do College Educated, Ethnically Diverse Job Seekers Look for Jobs?

According to a recent survey by Monster.com, college educated, ethnically diverse job seekers heavily use the Internet for job-seeking.

Big surprise, huh?

What might be more interesting is what internet sources they most heavily use, which internet sources they least are likely to use, and what other, non-Internet sources they are most/least likely to use.

The answers may surprise you somewhat:

According to the report, college educated, ethnically diverse job seekers are most likely to use (% is percentage of respondents indicating they used the source):

• Company websites (57%)
• Local job websites (50%)
• National internet recruitment websites (probably includes Monster.com) (47%).

What internet sources were much lower in terms of use?

• Diversity-specific online job sites! (24%)
• Trade/industry specific websites (24%)
• College/university/almuni sites (24%)
• Government sponsored websites (26%)

Well, I still don’t think this means that employers should shun these latter sources, because some diverse candidates do use them.

Finally, some non-internet sources that ethnically diverse candidates use in relatively low numbers:

Help wanted signs (11%)

Headhunters/recruitment firms (17%)

All in all, some interesting results to look at, huh? Unfortunately, I can’t find the source of this interesting report….I suggest you try monster.com and eventually you should be able to find it!

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