In a recent survey of over 300 employers, a whopping 91 percent said they use social media to screen job applicants. Even more telling is that the majority of those same employers used Facebook, specifically, to check out potential employees during the hiring process.
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Billing itself as “the world’s largest professional network,” it’s no surprise that LinkedIn is a great place to find a job or change careers. The site offers significant opportunities for you to build relationships with professional peers and hiring managers that could open many doors for career development. With more businesses getting started on LinkedIn every day, the number of job opportunities discussed and advertised on the site keeps growing, too. Continue Reading…
This week on Sprout Social Insights we tackled guides for Facebook, Twitter, and small business to help you better reach your customers with the social media tools that make a difference.
Check out our articles below to find out more about each one and how they can help you with your social media goals.
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You might be wondering what Pinterest, with its visually-based pins and pinboards, could possibly have to do with finding a job or changing careers. Well, consider that in some cases, Pinterest is actually referring more website traffic than Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Yahoo. Continue Reading…
If your job search has stalled, or if you’re looking to switch it up and change careers entirely, chances are there’s a job out there for you on Twitter — if you know how and where to look.
Even in this economy, and perhaps despite what you’ve heard on the nightly news, companies are hiring. Continue Reading…
The business of recruiting has grown beyond posting jobs on websites and in newspapers, and then waiting for the resumes to roll in. Social media has opened up the number and quality of potential candidates recruiters can now reach.
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional social network, was built with job searching and recruiting in mind. It has a suite of professional networking tools that give headhunters and Human Resources professionals the ability to search and proactively reach out to potential candidates. Continue Reading…
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