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How Job Seekers Use Social Media to Find a Job

Posted on January 23rd, by Chris Boudreaux in . 2 comments

According to Jobvite, one in six job seekers found their last job through a social network, and more than half of job seekers in the U.S. have used social media to look for work in the past year.

For people who used social media to find their last job:

  • 88% used LinkedIn
  • 71% used Twitter
  • 63% used Facebook

For the most active users of social media, 28% found their last job through social networking, and 85% of those did so via Facebook.

Infographic below from Jobvite:

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Chris Boudreaux helps large organizations develop and implement social media strategies and capabilities, including governance, measurement and operations.

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  • Rachel

    Neat infographic. Lots of opportunities to find job opportunities through social media. I wonder if sites like Glassdoor will ever be go-to place for job hunters. Seems those sites would be more useful as far as getting a snapshot of what it might actually like working for company A versus company B.

  • Chris

    It has been interesting to see sites like Glassdoor achieve less success than LinkedIn. One reason may be that they did not seem to target recruiters as an audience quite as effectively. That may be partially due to the information that they let people publish about companies causing many companies to see the site as risky or not trustworthy.

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