Social Recruiting On The Rise In 2011. Results from the 2011 Social Recruiting Survey conducted by Jobvite indicate that the use of social media and social networks for recruiting continues to increase among employers and their efforts are paying off!
Almost 2/3 of respondents indicated that they have successfully hired a candidate via their social recruiting efforts within the last year. The Jobvite survey includes responses from over 800 employers in the US, and now in it’s 3rd year, provides a good benchmark for social recruiting growth. The survey also indicates that many employers are expanding their use of social networks for recruiting beyond LinkedIn, with 64% of employers indicating that they use two or more social networks for recruiting in 2011.
The survey results reveal that a majority of employers expect to increase hiring over the next 12 months and 77% expect increased competition for talent as the economy heats up. As a result, many are increasing their budgets for recruiting via social media in 2011. Social Screening: How Companies Are Using Social Media To Hire/Fire Employees. Job Search Media. 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. Where Will Your Skills Take You? 5 Resume Mis*takes You Are Making and How To Avoid Them. Social media attracts London's job seekers. Forty three per cent of Londoners use social media to look for jobs, new research from LondonlovesJobs.com has found.
The survey also found that 30 per cent of business leaders are especially likely to use LinkedIn when hunting for a new position. The technological evolution of the internet has altered how we behave in many ways and it looks like job seeking is no different. To find out more about Londoners’ job seeking habits why not check out LondonlovesJobs.com’s nifty infographic. It appears that men are far more likely to use LinkedIn than their female peers with 30 per cent of males citing the social media as a viable job hunting option versus only 18 per cent of females. The survey carried out by the new jobs board showed that while the way in which people search for roles is changing dramatically, employers have been slow to adopt these new modes.
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