Nineteen percent of job seekers stated they use their mobile device for career-related purposes, and more than 50% said they could imagine doing so. Only 7% of employers, however, have a mobile version of their career website and only 3% have a mobile job application. When questioned further, 75% of employers stated they were planning to have either a job app or mobile career website by September 2012
While I find mobile versions of most sites to be helpful, I can't say I completely see the need for companies to make the career portions of their websites available on mobile devices.
Parts of the idea are appealing: being able to see job openings for a specific company, receiving alerts about job openings near you or being able to see the status of your submitted application. These things would be convenient, yes, but 30% of job seekers polled also said they would like to be able to apply for jobs from their mobile device. It may just be me, but I'd like to put more work into an application for a job than I feel would be possible from a smartphone.
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I would not apply for a job on my phone, and I wouldn't trust a company that wanted me to.
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