The internet offers a world of opportunity at the mere touch of a button and as such is proving to be the number one place for Britons seeking out a new job.

According to recent research, people looking for a new job are more than a little inclined to take to the web in a bid to hunt one down online.

The latest National Online Recruitment Audience Survey (NORAS), which looks at the habits of 40,000 online jobseekers, found that nine per cent only use the internet when looking for a new job. This figure is almost double that of last year, when internet job hunting was just gaining momentum.

No longer do graduates and members of the workforce spend hours sat at the kitchen table circling adverts in the paper. Instead, jobseekers are more likely to sit in front of a laptop computer scrolling through web pages and bookmarking their way to a new career.

The survey also found that 76 per cent on those quizzed had applied online for a job and of these 69 per cent had managed to bag a job interview, with 65 per cent of these actually being successful in their application.

Tim Elkington, managing director of Enhance Media, the firm behind NORAS, told Online Recruitment magazine that the internet manages to provide everything that the modern jobseeker needs.

"For an increasing number of jobseekers, the internet is providing everything they need to find a new job," he explained. "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."

The 25 websites used to search for jobs include GuardianJobs, graduate jobs service Propects.ac.uk and the Times Online.

Celebrities who have spent times as jobseekers include comedian and TV presenter Russell Brand. The ex-heroin addict famously includes anecdotes from his time of unemployment in his comedy sketches.

The extravagant star could perhaps have looked for jobs over the internet after his infamous split from MTV. Luckily for him though, he managed to find a job at the BBC working with Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and David Walliams.

Interestingly, before moving into comedy Rob Brydon worked on The Shopping Channel selling items such as lawnmowers and hedge strimmers. The comedian, left his 80s career behind to create the Keith Barret character and appear in films including Shaun of the Dead and A Cock and Bull Story.