In addition to keeping your resume up to date, be sure your online presence is giving you the visibility you need. The 2009 Jobvite Social Recruitment Survey shows that recruiters are using online methods for finding candidates more than ever.
- LinkedIn use grew from 80 percent in 2008 to 95 percent of respondents in 2009 and Facebook use grew from 36 percent in 2008 to 59 percent in 2009
- Twitter, ranked third with 42 percent of recruiters using the tool to source candidates
- 66% of respondents reported that they had successfully hired a candidate who was identified or introduced through an online social network.
“Companies are in a very different economic situation now than when our first Social Recruitment survey was conducted last year. Now, not only are recruiters engaged in social networks, they are investing in social recruitment in place of more costly and inefficient methods,” said Dan Finnigan, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jobvite.