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. And a whopping 69% of recruiters have rejected a candidate based on content found on his or her social networking profiles — an almost equal proportion of recruiters (68%), though, have hired a candidate based on his or her presence on those networks. Every week we post a list of social media and web job opportunities. Infographic courtesy of Reppler. 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. Social media has further intensified the departure from traditional communication methods to redefine how people and businesses interact with each other. In fact, more than half of companies on social media fail to have a social media strategy and in doing so, risk ignoring an increasingly dynamic and expanding audience.
While social media has seen rapid growth at the consumer level, the gap between consumer and corporate adoption is widening. One area where the benefits are already beginning to outshine older methods is talent acquisition and recruiting. So just how does social media benefit the environment of talent acquisition? 1. Unconventional Career Tips For Recent Grads. How Your Social Media Profile Could Make Or Break Your Next Job Opportunity.