{"id":5652,"date":"2018-10-30T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T10:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T11:00:52","slug":"survey-men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-work-with-a-job-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/survey-men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-work-with-a-job-recruiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Men Are More Likely Than Women to Work With a Job Recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recruiters still aren&#8217;t the most popular way to find jobs, but men rely on them more than women, according to the latest reading of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/168-how-did-you-get-your-first-interview-at-your-current-company\">ongoing query<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The data shows that men were more likely to use a recruiter than women (22% of men vs. 15% of women). Another difference is that 39% of women were likely to apply online compared to 29% of men.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people, predominantly across the tech sector, participated in the survey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5656 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/banaba.png\" alt=\"banaba\" width=\"759\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/banaba-300x117.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/banaba.png 759w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Overall results<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re living in a time of great technological change, but that hasn&#8217;t changed the way people get interviews. According to the data, 34% of people say they got their first interview\u00a0for their current job by applying online and 26% say they got it through a referral. The next most popular ways were &#8220;recruiter&#8221; (19%), &#8220;other&#8221; (12%) and &#8220;networking&#8221; (9%).<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 people\u00a0responded to\u00a0the query.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5653 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/chhh.png\" alt=\"chhh\" width=\"979\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/chhh-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/chhh-768x201.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/chhh.png 979w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Experience counts<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While both &#8220;applied online&#8221; and &#8220;referral&#8221; were the most popular answers for all age groups, it appears workers with 10 years of experience or more were more likely to get a referral than to apply online. Sampling below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">10 years or more<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5657 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/10.png\" alt=\"10\" width=\"480\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/10-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/10.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">1 to 3 years<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5658 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/1-3-years.png\" alt=\"1-3 years\" width=\"479\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/1-3-years-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/10\/1-3-years.png 479w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 85vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of\u00a0Oct. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruiters still aren&#8217;t the most popular way to find jobs, but men rely on them more than women, according to the latest reading of an\u00a0ongoing query\u00a0by\u00a0Comparably. The data shows that men were more likely to use a recruiter than women (22% of men vs. 15% of women). Another difference is that 39% of women were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/survey-men-are-more-likely-than-women-to-work-with-a-job-recruiter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,65,6],"tags":[291,41,141,64,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}