Study: More Than 15% of Workers Get Hired Through Social Networks

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Study: More Than 15% of Workers Get Hired Through Social Networks

“In a survey released today, recruiting software platform Jobvite noted that more than 22 million Americans used social networks to find jobs in 2011. One in six people, more than 15%, say they found a job through social networking. Fifty-four percent of job seekers are using Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter for their search. Even though there’s a higher job seeking volume on Facebook, more than one-third don’t use it to look for work. There’s far more actual job hunting on Twitter and Linked; almost all job seekers use LinkedIn for job hunting versus nearly 75 percent on Twitter. Overall, 86 percent (nine out of 10) job seekers have a profile on social media. Eighty-four percent of job seekers have a Facebook profile, 39 percent are onTwitter and 35 percent use LinkedIn.”

48% of job seekers have used Facebook to look for work

By Emil Protalinski

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/48-of-job-seekers-have-used-facebook-to-look-for-work/5486

Summary: Facebook is increasingly being used as a job hunting tool. In fact, 18.4 million Americans credit Facebook as a source that led to their current job.

This is an opportunity for libraries in their programs teaching job seeking skills.  Too many people don’t realize the importance of social media and networks to finding a job successfully.

The Gale Cengage Learning experience portal – Career Transitions ( http://www.gale.cengage.com/careertransitions/ ) helps a lot with this to make job seeking programs and libraries scalable.

Stephen