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3/10/2017 |
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How To Use Facebook To Hire Your Next Great Employee |
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How To Use Facebook To Hire Your Next Great Employee by Emma Fitzpatrick Last fall, Facebook introduced Facebook at Work, which allows companies to create their own employee-centric social network. There, employees can scroll through co-workers’ updates, send messages, get relevant project notifications, join groups and even create events. In essence, it’s an employee collaboration, communication and engagement tool that all your employees already know how to use. Now that Facebook has dipped its toes into the world of employee communications, the company is taking it one step further — recruiting. You can now list and promote open job opportunities directly on Facebook. Interested job seekers also apply right on Facebook in a few simple clicks. From there, you can review, track and communicate with applicants all on Facebook, too. "This was a real opportunity sitting in front of us," Andrew Bosworth, Facebook's vice president of ads and business platform, told Forbes in an interview. And it’s an opportunity for you and your company, too. Facebook’s Jobs page makes it easy to dabble in social recruiting, which is increasingly powerful. Peruse the latest statistics on social recruiting below. Then, learn how to post and recruit your next great employee using Facebook’s new Jobs tool. State of Social Recruiting - 25 percent of job seekers use social media as their primary job search tool.
- 73 percent of Millennials, aged 18 to 34, find jobs through social media.
- Employers who use social media to hire candidates found a 49 percent improvement in candidate quality compared to traditional recruiting methods.
- 59 percent of recruiters rated candidates sourced from social networks as "highest quality."
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