{"id":6379,"date":"2019-01-17T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2019-01-17T00:53:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T00:53:44","slug":"the-best-way-to-land-an-initial-job-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/the-best-way-to-land-an-initial-job-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Snapshot: The Best Way to Land an Initial Job Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the strong sense that networking with people in your industry is the best way to land a new job, most people seem to be have gotten their first interview for their current job via online applications. This should ease the worries of those lacking networking skills, and also alert veteran job seekers that a strong out-of-the-blue online application may mean more to 2019 hiring managers than a resume from an internal contact.<\/p>\n

Respondents were asked to choose from five answers to the question \u201cHow did you get your first interview at your current company?\u201d Their choices were \u201capplied online,\u201d \u201creferral,\u201d \u201crecruiter,\u201d \u201cnetworking,\u201d and \u201cother.\u201d 34% of respondents reported that they got their initial jobs thanks to an initial online application. Just 9% voted for networking. This info comes from the latest reading of an ongoing study<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people replied to the query.<\/p>\n

\"Overall<\/p>\n

Women rely on applying online ever more than men<\/b>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

While both men and women chose online application as the answer, women\u2019s responses imply that they are far more reliant on that process than men. Women chose \u201capplied online\u201d at a rate of 39%, compared to 29% for men. Men voted nearly as often for \u201creferral\u201d (28%), but women ranked that method at 25%, a full 14 points lower than online job searching. This implies that female job-seekers are not still not getting work from older, more established methods such as from referrals or recruiters, but that more modern methods \u2013 also perhaps more democratic \u2013 are finally serving their needs.<\/p>\n

\"Gender<\/p>\n

Applying online is the most fruitful method in most major US cities<\/b><\/p>\n

Answers varied most in San Francisco and Boston, where referral is still the most tried and true method of getting a first interview for a potential new job. In San Francisco, referral was the clear winner, with applying online and using recruitment services nearly tied for 2nd<\/sup>place. The story was similar in Boston, with referral at 33% and applying online 2nd<\/sup>with 28%. Other answer, including \u201crecruiter,\u201d lagged farther behind.<\/p>\n

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The latest reading is as of Jan. 16.<\/p>\n

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Despite the strong sense that networking with people in your industry is the best way to land a new job, most people seem to be have gotten their first interview for their current job via online applications. This should ease the worries of those lacking networking skills, and also alert veteran job seekers that a … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[11,41,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379"}],"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=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}