Job-hunters desperate to win race to apply first turn to smartphones While recruitment experts recommend very careful proof-reading of applications to ensure no typos stray through, Mr Hyams said this is less of a concern for those applying from their smartphones "People are becoming more comfortable about typing on smartphones' keyboards," he said. Indeed is one the many jobs websites which allows job-seekers to create CVs which they can store online and use to apply, but these often need to be tailored to specific roles. Indeed, which is used by 150m people worldwide each month for job searches, claims that employers who embrace this new class of mobile job-hunter can enjoy benefits. "Companies that make the shift to mobile applications have seen the number of applications receive more than double," Mr Hyams said. Mobile job-seekers are more engaged, they make 50pc more visits to the website and 15pc more applications. The move to mobile might also cheer up employers who learn the patterns of searches for new jobs. "The peak time for searches from a desktop computer for a new job is 9am to 10am on a Monday morning, something which always upsets employers," said Mr Hyams. With mobile we are seeing different spikes. The data Indeed is gathering from the millions of searches it gets will also change the job-hunting process, according to Mr Hyams. He predicts a world in which jobs will find potential employees, rather than them searching for them. "People might not know they have skills that are in demand," he said. People might have studied something or done a job that used skills that they think aren't relevant but might be needed. He gave as an example of the "Millennium Bug," when software developers who had programmed computers in languages that were scrapped long ago were suddenly needed to deal with the anticipated problems. Many of them considered the skill so out of date that there was no demand for it. With a full list of all their skills and experience on their CVs, Mr Hyams predicts jobs seeking people, rather than the other way round. Armed with this information, jobs websites will also be better able to help job-hunters, he claims. "More than a third of searches are for something less precise than a job - in many cases it's a just city they want to work in," he said. The increased amount of other data they have already given helps us find jobs for them that they might not have known about.