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Mashable recently released the latest in a series of infographics related to how social media is used in the employment game called, How Recruiters Use Social Media to Screen Candidates. This particular research was done by a Facebook monitoring company called Reppler.
There aren’t any surprises in their findings, if you’ve been following my own research and reports. However, it’s always great to get validation on these issues.
Here are some high-lights from the bottom up:
- 39% of recruiters say they found “fit” and “personality” from an applicant’s online profile. This mirrors CareerBuilder’s 2009 study
- 68% of recruiters have rejected someone based on information found about them online. This is up from 50% from CareerBuilder’s study. Clearly, screening candidates online has become status quo
- Most interesting is that recruiters use Facebook for screening 28% more than LinkedIn. In my view, Facebook has already usurped LinkedIn for job hunting leverage. More on this later.
Check out the infographic below:
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Joshua Waldman
Joshua Waldman, author of Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies, is recognized as one of the nation's top authorities in Social Media Career Advancement. To learn Joshua’s secret strategies for shortening the job search and getting the right job right away, Get The Missing Manual for LinkedIn Success
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@tcreativo Muy amables. All the best!
@M_guel ¡Buena suerte! =)
RT @TweetMyJobs: How Recruiters Use Social Media to Screen Candidates: http://t.co/wmpNOpmT via @joshuawaldman
@TweetMyJobs @joshuawaldman It would be interesting to see a followup study -> Who hired thru Social Media worked out?
@SapphireGirl10 I agree. Then we can really see the business benefits. There is lots’ more to be studied.
It is very interesting to see how social media has changed the world of recruiting. It has not only proven beneficial for recruiters to screen and reach out to candidates, but has also given job seekers direct access to recruiters. When I was looking for a job, Twitter proved to be very powerful for me. I received two interview calls via Twitter. It’s a different story that I didn’t make through those 😉 but getting interview calls via a social media tool like Twitter was very cool 🙂 Last year social recruiting was just a buzzword, but now social media seems to be a part of the recruiting cycle for companies. When I was interning for Work4Labs last year, there were not many social recruiting startups that existed. But I’ve seen an enormous increase of the same this year. Quite fascinating to see how social media has changed everything around us! Love the infographic! Thanks for sharing 🙂
@Dhara Mistry Dhara, Thanks for your comment. isn’t it amazing how the world is shifting! It excites me every single day!