Jim Stroud has put together a free report called “The 2007 Resume Sourcing Survey”. Whilst it is US focused, I would recommend UK recruiters take a look too.
As Jim says “It is a 6-page insight into Google, Live and Yahoo and how they compare in terms of quantity of resumes”. The report covers:
- Top 10 industries by resume sourced on Google, Live and Yahoo
- Popular industry keywords mentioned on resumes
- Most popular ways to spell “CV” and “resume”
- Quantity of resumes found on search engines.
If I had the time I would love to do a UK version of his survey. The search strings he uses (with a few changes to keywords) work just the same in the UK. I spent 10 minutes having a quick play about with a few searches and could see I was getting nowhere near as many UK CVs as he has been finding resumes for US jobseekers.
If you want to take a look at his report you can download the PDF file from his site
