Presentation on mobile present and future and its effect on recruitment.

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Our Mobile Future
Matt Alder
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@mattalder

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What I’m going to talk about
• The Mobile Landscape
• The Implications for Recruitment
• Mobile Apply
• The Future’s Bright the Future’s Mobile

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Landscape
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How things change…..

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How quickly we accept them…
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Within 4 years 71% of the
world’s literate population will
have a smartphone
Source – The World Bank

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The end of typing? A UI Revolution

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Leap

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User Interface - Voice

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User Interface – Eye Tracking

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No More Handsets?

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Mind over matter?!

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Implications for Recruitment
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Job Seeker Expectations
• 72% interested in receiving career information via their
phone
• 63% have already searched for a job on their mobile
• 79% would apply for a job on their mobile
• 84% Thought companies should have separate mobile
recruitment sites
Conducted by Metashift, Educate and Reconverse in March 2012 with a sample size
of 32,000 (UK, all demographics)

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Job Board Data

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Need for Highly Targeted Information
70% of mobile searchers act
within an hour; only 30% of PC
searchers do
Source Mobile Marketer

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Mobile Apply
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Business Card Data and Email Back

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LinkedIn

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Cloud Upload

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Emerging Integration Technology

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The Future’s Bright

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A better future for careers sites

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Desktop

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Mobile

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Mobile First Application Processes
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Key Takeaways
• As an industry we are way behind our
audience
• Mobile will make you rethink everything
• Mobile is difficult but will solve many
difficult problems

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Connect with me
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