I fell over some oldresearch we read through in the early days of Allthetopbananas.com which youmay find interesting, especially in the context of online recruitment.

“80% of jobseekers arepragmatic vs 20% who are careerist”

What is does thismean? In the context of the research in full it means the work life balance iseven or balanced more towards life for most people.  The phrase work to live is the feeling for many people.

So for the majority ofjob seekers they are looking for a range of positions to best fit their skillset, their experience and their location to return the right level of salary vsresponsibility that they are aiming for in their work life balance. It was shocking to find that the pragmatic job seeker will travel on average a longer distance than the careerist (who probably just relocated with the go get'em attitude)

Do the job boards oftoday offer helpful tools for the pragmatic job seeker?

We are really keen onhearing your views on this area, please do comment or contact us.