First, it was cell phones. Then it was smartphones. And now . . . it’s tablet devices.
Technology appears to be fueling a ever-increasing expansion of communication tools, and those tools have applications for the recruiting industry.
But how many of our peers are using those sourcing tools for recruiters, at least right now? Are they jumping right in and seeing how the latest and greatest innovations can aid them in their efforts, or are they primarily relying upon their tried-and-true techniques?
To find out, we conducted a poll of the recruiters in Top Echelon Network. As part of that poll, we asked the following question:
Do you use a tablet for recruiting purposes?
Results:
The choice of answers that we provided is listed below, along with the percentage of recruiters who selected each one:
- Yes, I use a tablet device for recruiting purposes only. — 1.1%
- Yes, I use a tablet device for both personal and recruiting purposes. — 31.5%
- No, I use a tablet device for personal purposes only. — 21.7%
- No, I don’t use a tablet device, but I plan to buy one. — 5.4%
- No, I don’t use a tablet device and I don’t plan to buy one. — 40.2%
Summary:
As you can see, 40.2% of recruiters don’t use a tablet device at all and they don’t plan to buy one. Meanwhile, 5.4% don’t use a tablet, but they DO plan to buy one. Consequently, 45.6% of the recruiters polled don’t currently use a tablet device, for any reason.
On the flip side of the coin, 31.5% of poll participants indicated that they use a tablet for both personal and recruiting purposes. In addition, 21.7% stated that they use one for personal purposes only. The group of recruiters who use a tablet for recruiting purposes only comprised the smallest percentage in the poll at 1.1%.
Analysis and Conclusion:
Perhaps what’s most surprising is that four out of every 10 recruiters in the poll do NOT use a tablet device, either personally or professionally, and they have no immediate plans to buy one. With the proliferation of tablet devices these days, one would think they’d have one for personal use, at the very least.
(Of course, we also don’t know how many of the recruiters in this sub-group have small children. There’s a good chance that none of them do. If that’s the case, then this statistic makes much more sense.)
Of the six out of 10 recruiters that DO use a tablet device, more use it for both personal and recruiting purposes than for just personal purposes, but not by a large margin. Once again, one would think that it’s only a matter of time before recruiters who own a tablet device use it for both personal and recruiting purposes.
Why not? After all: convenience.
So how about YOU? Do you use a tablet device? If so, do you use it for both recruiting and personal purposes? If not, do you plan to buy one soon?