The 1950s was a time of high fashion and interesting attitudes to women working and joining the workforce vs family life; the working week and 9-5 hours became more mainstream, people were using word of mouth, bulletins and physical job boards as the most common ways to find work. 

Supermarkets and libraries hosted these boards where people would check daily for opportunities and then make a phone call to set up an appointment. Resumes on paper were now common, and this made it easier to provide more detail and show your work history, they were still typed on paper but all the information was available now.

The 1970’s was boom time, and many companies grew very quickly. They outsourced their recruitment and agencies started to become a common way of finding work and preparing for an interview. The 1980s helped job seekers become more contactable with the invention and common uptake of the mobile phone. Now job seekers could add a personal phone number to a resume and have a confidential conversation instead of the call coming through reception.

Computers and the internet featured in job seeking for the next 20 years changing the way people looked for work considerably. Emailing information, which could be collated by databases and applicant tracking software, electronic documentation, electronic signing and confidentiality agreements all have made life easier for both managers and job applicants.