HeadHonchos.com, a job search and career management portal exclusively for senior professionals, has reported that share of traffic from mobile devices to its site has doubled in the last 12 months. This meant that more and more senior professionals were making use of high-end smartphones for their career management activities.
The portal also reported interesting information about the operating systems. Amongst the operating systems used to access the senior job search portal, there was a massive increase of 255% in access via Android devices in the last 12 months, followed by increase in access via iOS (108%) and Blackberry (61%). Together the three operating systems, Android, Blackberry and iOS comprised most of the mobile traffic.
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."
From the product perspective, a chunk of traffic comes from Apple (36%) and Samsung (23%) devices. The largest growth in traffic came from Samsung devices and this grew at double the pace of that of Apple devices.
Tablets have also become an important device for job search for senior professionals. From almost a negligible share in usage last year, almost 30% of all mobile traffic usage was from tablets.