For the past few years, I’ve kept a running total of how people land their new jobs – an off-line process to keep the playing field level.
Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, Web job sites are not the primary source of jobs for most of the job seekers I interview. Fewer than 15% of them mention a job site (e.g. Monster, CareerBuilder, even Craigslist).
But, I’ve noticed an interesting trend recently, when Iask people how they landed their new job AND when the answer is a Web site, the Web site mentioned with increasing frequency is LinkedIn!

