INFOGRAPHIC: Recruiting Via Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter Continues To Grow. A total of 92 percent of U.S. companies use social networks and social media to recruit talent, up from 78 percent five years ago, according to new research from recruitment platform Jobvite, which also found that although LinkedIn remains dominant in the sector, Facebook and Twitter continue to make inroads.
Other findings in the 2012 annual Social Recruiting Survey from Jobvite: Two-thirds of companies now use Facebook for recruiting, while 54 percent use Twitter. Jobvite President and CEO Dan Finnigan said: The rise in social recruiting has allowed both candidates and employers an easier way to find the best match.
We continue to see social recruiting gain popularity because it is more efficient than the days of sifting through a haystack of resumes. Mark Zuckerberg's Marriage Update Breaks 1 Million Likes on Facebook. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg capped the rollercoaster that was last week by marrying his sweetheart of nine years, Priscilla Chan, on Saturday and the news has gone down very well with users of the social network.
To date, more than one million people have ‘liked’ the update, less than 48 hours after it was posted. The update also drew more than 730 comments, in contrast to Chan’s update, which passed a nonetheless impressive 38,000 likes and 80-plus comments. To give some idea of the magnitude of that response, Zuckerberg’s goodbye note to Steve Jobs after his passing got almost 580,000 likes, having been his most popular for some time. Zuckerberg’s Facebook Page has amassed more than 14 million subscribers, and the social network’s founder uses it to post regular updates about both Facebook and his personal life.
Recent entries have included the ‘Stay Focused & Keep Shipping’ memo when Facebook first filed for IPO, and a video of his dog Beast that was his first contribution to Viddy. Facebook sets IPO price at $38 a share. Let the show begin.
Facebook has set the price of tomorrow's IPO at $38 a share, after phenomenally strong demand from big money managers to get in on the biggest Internet IPO in history. The price gives Facebook a market value of $104 billion out of the gate, more than the stock market value of Amazon and about half that of Google's. Facebook has raised $16 billion by selling 421.2 million shares.
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