Pros

The cost of looking for work and recruiting workers online is very low compared with traditional job search and recruiting methods.

Recent research has detected an unemployment duration reducing effect of internet job search where before no effect was detected.

People who look for jobs online are not casual “window shoppers”: They search just as actively as others who search off-line.

The advent of social networking sites as a job search tool promises to yield further improvements in labor market matching efficiency.

Electronic job boards—i.e. websites where job ads and résumés are posted—are emerging as an important source of data on labor market trends.