HR: Leading People, Leading Organizations © 2006 SHRMSHRM Weekly Online Survey: December 15, 2006

Recruiting Methods

• Sample comprised of 277 randomly selected HR professionals.

• Analyzing 277 out of 2610 emails sent, 2473 emails received (response rate = 11%)

• Survey fielded between December 15 – 21 2006; presentation generated on January 5, 2007.

• Margin of error is +/- 5%.

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HR: Leading People, Leading Organizations © 2006 SHRMSHRM Weekly Online Survey: December 15, 2006

Effective Recruiting Methods

Executives ManagersProfessional

s

Headhunters 60% 27% 22%

Personal contacts/networking 58% 67% 65%

Referrals 44% 56% 61%

Agencies 26% 23% 27%

Internet job postings 30% 66% 68%

Professional and/or trade journals 24% 32% 40%

Internet advertisements 14% 33% 33%

Job applications online or website 14% 36% 43%

Newspapers 14% 37% 46%

Community organizations 10% 19% 24%

International newspapers 8% 5% 4%

Places of worship 5% 9% 9%

Note: Data sorted in descending order by Executives. Percentages does not total 100% as multiple responses were allowed.

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Executives Managers Professionals

General public 5% 16% 23%

Minority job fairs 3% 13% 20%

Job fairs 1% 14% 27%

Job Hotlines 1% 8% 10%

Open houses 1% 5% 10%

Walk-in-traffic 1% 4% 6%

Blogs (weblogs - personal journals available on the web)

1% 2% 7%

Temp to hire 6% 21%

Other 1% 2% 2%

Note: Data sorted in descending order by Executives. Percentages does not total 100% as multiple responses were allowed. Other category include internal promotions, Internet resume database search. Blank cells indicate value less than 1%.