Out of all the social media channels, employers look at LinkedIn (92%), Facebook (66%), and Twitter (52%) the most. LinkedIn profiles are also the most searchable when it comes to looking for a candidate’s work experience online.<\/p>\n
The survey also mentions that 1 out of 3 recruiters were able to find information online that made them look at a candidate more positively, while 23% said that social media was directly responsible for convincing them to hire a candidate at all.<\/p>\n
Jobvite also warns about “zombie content,” information that you posted online long ago and have forgotten about, so make sure you clean up your profile presence well.<\/p>\n
However, while you still shouldn’t post your drunken photos on Facebook after a Friday night out, job seekers should also focus on building online profiles that best showcase their skills and experience in the workplace<\/strong>. According to Greg Simpson, senior vice president at recruitment consultancy firm Lee Hecht Harrison, “Job seekers who are silent or invisible online may be at a disadvantage. They need to engage on social networking sites to increase their visibility and searchability with prospective employers.”<\/p>\n Check out what else Jobvite has to say about how social media affects your job hunt:<\/p>\n Woah, hold on. Are you sure you want to post your wild photos from your awesome, loud Friday night at the club? According to Jobvite’s Social Recruiting Survey, at least 52% of the 1,884 recruiters who participated in the survey check the online profiles of candidates during the application process. (Staff.com, on the other hand, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Social-Job-Hunt-FInal\"](\"https:\/\/neo-blog.kalibrr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Social-Job-Hunt-FInal-82x300.png\")
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