Recruitment websites such as Milkround.com are becoming increasing popular.

A poll of 40,000 online jobseekers has found nine percent exclusively use the Internet to search for work – up 50 percent on last year.

The National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS) is a snapshot of the UK's 13 million online job hunters. It reveals thousands of people have stopped using other way to find a job and are relying on the web.

Other findings include three quarters applied for a job they found online, more than two thirds got an interview and 65 percent got a job.

Tim Elkington, managing director of Enhance Media which produces NORAS, commented: "This comprehensive survey shows that for an increasing number of jobseekers, the internet is providing everything they need to find a new job.

"The results also show that more people are getting jobs and jobseekers are far more directed about where to look. Five years ago they would have looked at seven websites to find work, now they look at four."