Improving job search skills : a field experiment on online employment assistance

Guglielmo Briscese, Giulio Zanella, Veronica Quinn

Finding a job requires effective search skills to engage successfully with employers with vacancies. In a field experiment, we test a website that supplements such search skills by providing editable resume and cover letter templates as well as tips on how to look and apply for jobs. Exposure to the website was randomized among about 2,700 job seekers in Australia. The intervention increased job-finding rates, particularly among job seekers aged 35-50 (up to 8 percentage points), with larger effects for women within this age group (up to 10 percentage points). The quality of job matches improved too.

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Year of publication:	April 2020
Authors:	Briscese, Guglielmo ; Zanella, Giulio ; Quinn, Veronica
Publisher:	Bonn, Germany : IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Subject:	online job search assistance \| search skills \| active labor market policy \| Arbeitsmarktpolitik \| Labour market policy \| Arbeitsuche \| Job search \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Arbeitsvermittlung \| Employment office \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Feldforschung \| Field research

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 28 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Discussion paper series / IZA. - Bonn : IZA, ZDB-ID 2120053-1. - Vol. no. 13170
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/216482 [Handle]
Classification:	J08 - Labor Economics Policies ; J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; J68 - Public Policy
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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