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27/03/2002
Online CVs find favour as “paper prejudice” hits jobseekers
Employers are rejecting paper CVs in favour of electronic ones, according to a survey of over 400 recruiters by a top online job site.
Seventy-eight percent of recruiters responding to a recent reed.co.uk survey said that if they had to choose between two equal candidates, one with a paper CV and one with an electronic one, they would pick the electronic CV first every time. What’s more nearly two thirds (63 per cent) said they would favour people with electronic CVs when selecting for interview.
Recruiters claimed it was faster and more efficient to deal with electronic CVs, whether they arrive by e-mail, through a company’s website, or from an external internet job site.
Recruiters also said that how people sent in CVs affected how they were viewed. A third of recruiters concluded that candidates with paper CVs were computer-illiterate or behind the times.
With an increasing number of jobseekers favouring electronic CVs if given the choice, two out of every five recruiters said they now receive more than 90 per cent of CVs electronically. Although jobseekers should remember that some recruiters still favour paper CVs and 15 per cent said that they do not receive any electronic ones at all, over 80 per cent now receive more than one in ten CVs electronically.
The survey revealed regional variations with London-based employers the most reliant on technology, with 44 per cent receiving over 90 per cent of their CVs electronically. This was closely followed by southwest England with 42 per cent and Scotland with 40 per cent. Electronic applications were least favoured in Yorkshire and the northeast England.
Some employers even considered electronic CVs better because they are more "environmentally sound".
It is estimated that online recruitment through Internet job-sites saves around 100 million sheets of paper a year in the UK alone, which equates to over 8,000 trees saved.
(SP)
Seventy-eight percent of recruiters responding to a recent reed.co.uk survey said that if they had to choose between two equal candidates, one with a paper CV and one with an electronic one, they would pick the electronic CV first every time. What’s more nearly two thirds (63 per cent) said they would favour people with electronic CVs when selecting for interview.
Recruiters claimed it was faster and more efficient to deal with electronic CVs, whether they arrive by e-mail, through a company’s website, or from an external internet job site.
Recruiters also said that how people sent in CVs affected how they were viewed. A third of recruiters concluded that candidates with paper CVs were computer-illiterate or behind the times.
With an increasing number of jobseekers favouring electronic CVs if given the choice, two out of every five recruiters said they now receive more than 90 per cent of CVs electronically. Although jobseekers should remember that some recruiters still favour paper CVs and 15 per cent said that they do not receive any electronic ones at all, over 80 per cent now receive more than one in ten CVs electronically.
The survey revealed regional variations with London-based employers the most reliant on technology, with 44 per cent receiving over 90 per cent of their CVs electronically. This was closely followed by southwest England with 42 per cent and Scotland with 40 per cent. Electronic applications were least favoured in Yorkshire and the northeast England.
Some employers even considered electronic CVs better because they are more "environmentally sound".
It is estimated that online recruitment through Internet job-sites saves around 100 million sheets of paper a year in the UK alone, which equates to over 8,000 trees saved.
(SP)
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