USA TODAY: …Nearly a third of Google job searches last fall were on mobile devices, up from 17% in November 2011. CareerBuilder and Indeed, another leading job-search site, say their mobile searches have more than doubled the past year.
The trend follows the broad shift of Internet usage to mobile devices, but also reflects job seekers’ desire to look for work outside their current employers’ corporate networks, during lunch or on the train ride home. Many receive e-mail alerts about new openings on their smartphones and apply immediately to get an edge on other candidates.
“It just lets people do job search anywhere, anytime,” says James Beriker, CEO of Simply Hired, an online job-search engine… (more)
