Senior pros hunt for jobs in privacy, on smartphones

BANGALORE, INDIA: It emerges that more and more senior professionals are making use of high-end smartphones for their career management activities.

According to HeadHonchos.com, a job search and career management portal exclusively for senior professionals, the share of traffic from mobile devices to its site has doubled in the last 12 months. It also reflects that a greater number of senior professionals are relying on mobile Internet to log on to job search portals, while on the go, stated a release.

Among the operating systems used to access the senior job search portal, there has been a massive increase of 255 per cent in access via Android devices in the last 12 months, followed by increase in access via iOS (108 per cent) and BlackBerry (61 per cent). The three operating systems, Android, Blackberry and iOS, make up for most of the mobile traffic, said HeadHonchos.com.

From the product perspective, a chunk of traffic comes from Apple (36 per cent) and Samsung (23 per cent) devices. The largest growth in traffic has come from Samsung devices and this has grown at double the pace at which traffic from Apple devices has grown.

From almost a negligible share in usage last year, almost 30 per cent of all mobile traffic usage was from tablets, the release added.

On the trend, Uday Sodhi, CEO, HeadHonchos.com, said, "Job search by senior professionals is a very personal and confidential activity. Smartphones and tablets allow users to do their job search on the move, in complete confidence and away from their desktop PCs. As one never knows when one is face to face with a suitable opportunity, people prefer to stay updated on mobile."