Maybe Today Is the Day to Post That Job

Wednesday’s looking like an awfully good day to post a job.

At least that’s what you glean from job-distributor eQuest, whose data indicates a lot of U.S. job-seekers are hunting on Wednesdays, as well as Tuesday and Thursday. It studied more than a million jobs posted online to see when candidates searched and sent in resumes.

It found:

day of week — Wednesdays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays rule, though you can see that weekend job-seeking went up quite a bit from 2011 to 2012 (click to enlarge)

And eQuest found this about what times of day people searched and sent in resumes:

time of day — Morning job-hunting went up quite a bit in 2012; in 2011, on the other hand, it wasn't until late morning like 10-11 a.m. that a lot of people started searches (click to enlarge)

Also from eQuest:

“Jobs posted to Twitter experienced its highest level of searches and responses from mobile devices on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesdays
Monster, CareerBuilder and Indeed.com were at their strongest Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from computers, during the lunch hour.
Healthcare job postings were most active when posted on Wednesdays, retail jobs on Saturdays, and technology jobs were at their strongest Tuesdays and Fridays.”