Recruiters Say: Avoid LinkedIn At Your Peril. Sourcing. How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen Candidates. Over the past few years, we've seen social media used in the job market in a number of ways — startups, small businesses and large corporations alike are diving into the socialverse to find top talent, and job seekers are likewise getting creative with social media.
Social media monitoring service Reppler recently surveyed more than 300 hiring professionals to determine when and how job recruiters are screening job candidates on different social networks. The study found that more than 90% of recruiters and hiring managers have visited a potential candidate's profile on a social network as part of the screening process. No More Résumés, Say Some Firms.
5 Ways Social Media Is Revolutionizing Talent Acquisition. Sajjad Masud is co-founder & CEO of Simplicant, a cloud-based social recruiting platform transforming talent acquisition and making enterprise-level recruiting technology accessible to companies of all sizes.
Connect with Sajjad and the Simplicant team on Twitter and Facebook. The way we communicate with each other has evolved rapidly over the last decade. Unconventional Career Tips For Recent Grads. How Your Social Media Profile Could Make Or Break Your Next Job Opportunity.