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• 80 percent of corporations have an internal mobility policy in place.

• HR professionals rank internal mobility highest at improving employee satisfaction.

• Adoption of corporate Careers website recruiting by the Global 500 has grown the strongest in the Asia-Pacific region.

• There is near parity across global regions in corporate Careers website recruiting by the Global 500.

• 94 percent of the Global 500 has a corporate Careers website

• A simple sub-directory (company.com/careers) is the most prevalent format of memorable Careers site URL in the Fortune 500.

• Adoption of the Memorable URL best practice has had a nine percent year-over-year growth rate to reach 51 percent of the Fortune 500.

• Sixty-four percent of Fortune 500 companies provide information on employee benefits to Careers site visitors.

• Fully three-quarters of Fortune 500 companies offer one click to apply functionality.

• There has been a ten percent year-over-year growth in the best practice of having a link one click from the corporate homepage to the Careers section.

• In 2002, 86 percent of the Fortune 500 provided a direct link from the corporate homepage to the Careers website.

• Just over half of Fortune 500 companies offer a separate student or entry-level recruiting section within the Careers website.

• In 2002, 42 percent of the Fortune 500 direct all candidates to respond to job positions through a purely online response mechanism.

• The majority of corporate privacy policies are generic, while six percent specifically address recruiting.

• In 2002, 71 percent of Fortune 500 companies post a privacy policy accessible to corporate Careers site visitors.

• The Email to a Friend best practice has shown a year-over-year growth of 66 percent from 2001 to 2002.

• Use of Job Agent technology by the Fortune 500 has nearly doubled since 2001.

• The practice of allowing jobseekers to create and maintain a candidate profile on the Careers website increased in 2002 to 31 percent.

• Nearly 10 percent of the Fortune 500 included pre-screening questionnaires as part of the online job application process in 2002.

• The implementation of the Anonymous Job Application best practice has grown 180 percent over 2001.

• A majority of the Fortune 500 subscribes to the major job boards, with 70 percent listing job positions on at least one of the three job boards studied.

• On average, the Fortune 500 companies listed 184 job positions on the corporate Careers Web site.

• Eighty-one percent of Fortune 500 companies listed job descriptions of vacancies on the corporate Careers Web site.

• Almost 75,000 individual job positions were listed on the Careers sites of the Fortune 500 companies.

• Global 500 companies using corporate Web sites for recruiting in 2002 have increased across each region.

• In 2002, 91% of the Global 500 use corporate Web sites for recruiting.

• The ability for candidates to reuse their information for multiple applications has increased among the Fortune 500 in 2001.

• Use of pre-screening tools has increased to nearly five percent among the Fortune 500.

• Three-quarters of the Fortune 500 provide jobseekers with a means of responding to job positions on the Careers Web site.

• Employee benefits information is the most valued information to corporate Career Web site visitors.

• A Statement of Purpose is the most common feature of a privacy policy among the top 500 European companies.

• Of the top 500 European companies, 22% state a privacy policy on the Careers Web site.

• Nearly two-thirds of the companies publishing employee benefits information to the Careers Web site are in the UK or Ireland.

• It is most common to see the corporate employment culture described on the Careers Web site of Scandinavian and British companies.

• English is the most common language in Careers Web sites of the top 500 European companies.

• Among the regions of the top 500 European companies, Scandinavia has the highest percentage of companies with a Careers Web site.

• Nearly half of the top 500 European companies offer the Careers Web site in only one language.

• Just over half of the top 500 European companies both post job positions and accept job applications for those jobs on the corporate Careers Web site.

• In 2001, 89% of Fortune 500 companies had corporate careers Web sites.

• Candidates favor job category and location search.

• 22% of Fortune 500 companies make their Careers section Web address easy to remember.

• Three-quarters of corporate Career Web site visitors want salary range information.

• Employee benefits information is the most valued information to corporate Career Web site visitors.

• Company culture information is fundamental for Career Web site visitors.

• Important of Ability to Apply Anonymously for Corporate Career Web Site Visitors

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