Social recruitment – 80% of recruitment involves social media

James Potter, The LinkedIn Man, discusses the change in dynamics to recruitment. Social media, and social recruitment, has now allowed employers into another level of understanding to the candidate. 80% of recruitment now involves social media.

 

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Both candidates and employers alike need to engage in this social recruitment as it is only going to get more popular as a way of employing the correct person for the role.