We were approached about sponsoring this survey and the report that was produced from the data that was collected.  We would like to thank Michael Specht and Phillip Tusing for taking the initiative and giving employers and recruiters a starting point when thinking about successful recruiting channels.

Michael Specht provides a summary of the findings here:

The key findings of the report include:

1. Source of talent varies across Australia with seventeen identifiable source of talent.
2. Job boards, in their various iterations, take a leadership role being the predominant source of talent in Australia with 29.64% of hires attributed to them.
3. Perceptions of the most effective sources of talent by recruiters differ from the reality of where talent is sourced.
4. Different industries use significantly different sources to find talent within Australia.
5. The different regions of Australia also seem to source talent differently, for example in the ACT 49.70% of talent is found through internal recruiters.
6. Referrals as sources are not as developed as expected being only the fourth most successful source at 7.57% of hires.
7. Print media while having a reputation of an archaic channel still exists as the seventh most successful source of hires.
8. Employers and agency recruiters differ in how they source talent with agency recruiters relying heavily on job boards.
9. Social media is in its infancy ranking last as a source talent in Australia, with usage higher in smaller organisations.
10. Data collection is poor with over 7% of organizations have no reliable method of tracking their source of talent.

You can download the free report here.