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As our first year in business is about to come to conclusion and we begin our second year, we’d like to take a quick look at what people have been doing on Becomed and reflect on what it might mean. To that end we’ve generated anonymous statistics from a randomly selected group of 1000 active Becomed users from the US. At no point in the process did we look at specific user data, nor can we – it’s encrypted and fully private. But we do keep timestamps and general indicators on the type of activities our users are doing, and so we generated a graph of a couple of interesting data point.

First, we looked at the days in the week during which our users joined Becomed (the blue bars in the graph). It seems that most of our users join at the beginning and middle of the week, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Our theory is that, for our employed users who are looking for a new job, this could be explained by being disappointed by their current jobs returning to work after the weekend. And perhaps our unemployed users decide to join on these days after weekends of soul-searching and a renewed motivation to find a job.

We also looked at the days during which our users applied for jobs (the green bars in the graph). It seems that the job application trends correlate with the trend of signups for Becomed: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday seem to be the most active days, perhaps for the same reasons.

Finally, we looked at the days our users are being interviewed (the red bars in the graph). It seems that, by and large, Tuesday is the most popular day for interviews, followed by Thursday.  We’re not quite sure why that is, but it is our experience that mondays are usually very busy days for executives, and so interviews are postponed to later in the week. Naturally, there are no interviews on Saturday and Sunday.