New-age job aspirants picking employers with care: TimesJobs

New-age professionals are more focused on career trajectory than simply their next job or a higher salary, and they decide whom to work for after a thorough research, a survey says.

According to TimesJobs' latest TJinsite report, nearly 46 per cent job-seekers decide whether they want to join a particular firm while doing a due diligence. And some 38 per cent say they research a company extensively before applying for a job.

"Professionals are looking at prospective employers in a very different way," TimesJobs COO Vivek Madhukar said, adding that competent professionals do an extensive research when planning their next move and advancing their career.

The report noted that the new-age professionals remain on top of their profession by researching the best employers in their domain, reading up on their company reviews, going through their interview questions, researching their current openings, enhancing their own skills and benchmarking their skills and salaries with others in the industry.

For, their research millennials use multiple tools and mediums such as the Internet, social media forums, peer feedback and company rating platforms. Moreover, talent communities are also catching up with these job seekers.

Almost 38 per cent employees felt that job application process still takes too long to complete.

In addition, over 31 per cent jobs hunters reported that the recruitment process has become too automated with little or no human contact, the TimesJobs.com study found out.