Jobseekers are finding that, even at a time of increasing opportunities, searching for a job by sending out one’s resume can be grueling and frustrating, according to poll results released yesterday by online job bank Yes123.
The poll found that respondents heard from only 5 percent of the employers to whom they sent resumes, which Yes123 characterized as extremely low.
When employers do not reply, more than 40 percent of respondents said they become less motivated.
Of this group, just over half said they “minded” not hearing from employers, but “would not take any action,” a third said they would simply “give up” and one-seventh said they would “never apply for a job with the company again,” poll results showed.
Lin Ming-hui (林明慧), a public relations officer at Yes123, was worried that a vicious circle would result if companies did not reply to job applicants because it would lower people’s motivation to look for a job, causing companies in turn to face labor shortages and reducing the pool of people they can choose from.
The poll also found that 65 percent of respondents said that the response they were most hoping for, but rarely got, when sending out resumes was whether they had landed an interview.
Another 37.3 percent of respondents said they could not even be sure whether employers had read their resumes at all.
Lin said that companies should show more sincerity when recruiting employees and actively respond to those who send them resumes.
The poll, conducted between July 5 and July 12, collected 1,683 valid samples and has a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of plus or minus 2.38 percentage points.
Getting employers to pay attention to resumes remains a problem even though the number of jobseekers decreased by 17.8 percent in the first five months of this year from the same period last year to 429,000, according to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS).
The ratio of jobseekers to job openings was 1 to 1.6 over the period, DGBAS said.
Employer demand was greatest for non-skilled workers, physical laborers, and other workers, at 183,000 people, or 26.9 percent of the roughly 680,000 jobs available.
Skilled workers and associate professionals, were the second-highest in demand, with employers advertising 158,000 openings, or 23.2 percent of the total, for such people, DGBAS said.
The types of job vacancies that have seen the biggest jump in interest this year among jobseekers have been service and sales jobs, attracting applications from 110,000 jobseekers, or 26.9 percent more than the same period last year, DGBAS said.
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