Organisations are turning to #socialmedia networking sites to hunt talents. Check out the statistics that is catalysing this trend

1. New Hiring Trend
Social Hiring Stats:
Present
Hiring Scenario
How Job postings have changed
Why Hiring Managers are
ready for the change?
Percentage of active jobseekers
on social media platforms:
Why Positions are empty?
Validating jobseekers’
profiles
Analyzing the nature
of the jobseekers
Creating a
first level impression
54%
66%
83% 40%34%
94%in last 5 years
recruiters use
Facebook
48%
recruiters use
ONLY LinkedIn
54%
recruiters use
Twitter
FacebookLinkedIn Twitter
Use of Social Media
in hiring has gone up by
45%employers believe
time to fill in positions
have increased
since 2014
Positions are staying open for a longer time now.
Organisations are finding it difficult to find a perfect fit.
56%Hiring managers
believe unmet salary
requirements will
lead to higher salary
demands in 2016
Recent researches
reveal almost
are aiming for social hiring.
80%
40%
65%
Traditional hiring is getting replaced with smarter hiring.
Gone are the days when a resume along with a word doc
attached as cover letter would work.
of jobseekers are finding jobs
through networking
recruiters respond better to
visual information than plain text
recruiters believe jobseekers using
social networking to find a job is
a smarter fit in digital world
39%
26%
32%
hiring managers agree quality
is the most important metric
consider employee-referral
programs to stay
believe employee retention
is top priority
Around 700 videos
are posted on Twitter
along with job posting
Job postings
with videos get
36% more view
LinkedIn beats
Facebook in
job views by 86%
Hiring managers are also playing along with this new trend.
Getting over the monotonous job listings, hiring managers have turned to
creative ways to find the right talent. Since, every organisation, big or small,
aims to keep it lean, a digital fit is the first priority.
Quality hiring is the
most important focus for
a hiring manager.
Compromising on quality and going
with references or just academics is
not a norm anymore. Although
many recruiters trust employee
referral programs, and also work an
extra mile to retain a valuable talent.
Global Recruiting Trends 2016 by LinkedIn
https://business.linkedin.com/content/dam/business/talent-solutions/global/en_us/c/pdfs/GRT16_GlobalRecruiting_100815.pdf
26 Recruiting Stats and facts from Jobcast
http://www.jobcast.net/26-social-recruiting-stats-and-facts/
Recruiting Blogs
http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/80-of-today-s-jobs-are-landed-through-networking
13 Recruiting Stats for HRs in 2016 from CareerArc
http://www.careerarc.com/blog/2016/01/13-recruiting-stats-hr-pro-must-know-2016/
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Hiring Managers are turning to social media
to hunt down the perfect talent.
Social Media
has emerged to become a medium which can help in:
How organizations are implementing-----------------------------------------------
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Social Hiring is something that recruiters are looking up at. It gives them more clarity
about the jobseeker and at the same they can also find the right cultural fit. There is
a lot of scope in social hiring to promote work culture, which is most important to
have a great employer-jobseeker relationship.
Is your company also being aggressive about social hiring?