Populix Survey: Technology Can Make It Easy For You To Find Job Opportunities

Populix's survey of widely used job-finding platforms (photo: Populix)

JAKARTA - A survey launched by Populix some time ago revealed that technology is also useful to make it easier for you to find job opportunities on the internet.

In the report, Populix noted, the majority or 66% of the public claimed to have received job vacancies information from job seek sites. Then followed by information from friends and family of 58%, and LinkedIn 48%.

Meanwhile, Populix also mentioned several job seekers most widely used by the people in Indonesia, including Jobstreet.co.id (82%), LinkedIn (61%), Jobs.id (37%), Career.com (29%), Glints.com (25%), Kalibrr.com (16%), and JobsDB.com (125%).

According to the report, the reason people use job seekers more often is the availability of the best companies that match career goals (63%) and have succeeded in helping to find a job (75%).

Furthermore, they also mentioned some of the advantages they felt when using job seek sites. A total of 74% of respondents admitted that it was easier and more practical, then 74% of others admitted they could see more vacancies available at the same time.

Not only that, 73% of respondents said they could find vacancies according to their wishes, seek job information in a wider area (71%), and get a vacancy notification that fits the background (61%).

However, 42% of the public also claimed to have had bad experiences when using job seek sites such as inappropriate job descriptions (58%), fictitious companies (54%), were asked to provide some money in the selection process (45%), inappropriate salary information (42%), and withhold personal documents (34%).