I came across an interesting tip on posting jobs online from the HR Daily Advisor. According to their article (and similar to studies that show the best day to send out recruitment email marketing), the best day to post your job on a job board is Wednesday.
Hey – that was yesterday, crap! Not that I am saying that this is the best way to attract job candidates online – but you are going to post them anyway. And when you do, please write a job description that will actually attract not just inform.
The information on the best day to post came from a study by eQuest that tracked more than a million of their clients job postings for the last 8 months. Job seeker’s searches on the job boards spike Monday – Thursday. And what happens after Thursday you ask? Nose dive. There is a major drop in activity on Friday and continuing through the weekend.
Here are the percetages:
Monday: 17.5%
Tuesday: 17.8%
Wednesday: 18.1%
Thursday: 16.8%
Friday: 12.3%
Saturday: 8.6%
Sunday: 9.0%
How about some day-part info?
Job posting “views” spike from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. and then again from 4 p.m. – 5 p.m. So – clearly during working hours for the currently employed.
The study is useful for trying to time postings but I wonder if this general online job search behavior holds true for searching for jobs on Google, on blogs or online communities and forums.
The one piece that of the study that makes the most sense is that job seekers aren’t looking on Sunday because they were busy looking at the newspaper classifieds
…o b v i o u s l y. 
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Shannon reminds us that Hump Day is the best day to post our jobs online. Guess that says something about the job seekers infatuation with Wednesday, eh? Maybe I should I start posting the T-Mo Job o’ the Week each Wed? I know I’m a day late, but since it’s my b-day maybe you’ll cut
Mind the Gap…
Over on the Jobster blog, Julian and Shannon from Exceler8ion post about taking a grown-up gap year…….
[...] Shannon over at exceler8ion picked up on this article from hr daily advisor yesterday, it declares hump day (Wednesday) to be the the best day to post a job, with most job seekers keeping a predominatly monday to thursday online-work-week. Here’s the breakdown: [...]
[...] EXCELER8ion: Best Day for Your Job Ads – Hump Day Shannon at EXCELER8ion points to a new study that shows Wednesday is the best day to post your job listing on a job board. We’d like to point out the revolutionary shift in technology (sarcasm alert!) from classified ads to jobs boards: Now you no longer need a pen to circle the ads. [...]
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