What the Findings Mean

Clearly, conventional wisdom is correct. The Internet has, in fact, become an accepted way to find employment opportunities in the full range of permanent positions available in today's organizations. We can, nevertheless, draw some important insights from the poll results.

Experience counts.

The more senior you are, the more likely you are to be recruited on the Internet & up to a point. Employers and recruiters fill more mid level professional positions online than they do entry level positions, despite the widespread belief that recent college graduates are much more likely to use the Web for their job search. Beyond that point, however, the bottom drops out; just a handful of our respondents with senior level openings (7.7%) rely on the Internet to fill them.