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20 eye-catching facts about Social Media around the world 2011

But wait there is more… This 167-slide presentation contains over 1.000 facts & figures about social media in more than 30 countries. Wow! Topics cover main adoption & usage, brand interactions, role of employees in using social media and much more.

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20 eye-catching facts about Social Media around the world 2011

Employment Outlook: Hiring expectations in Q4-2011 weaken but remain positive

According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey of global hiring trends released today, employers in 21 of 39 countries expect the fourth-quarter hiring pace to soften from the third quarter. However, Net Employment Outlooks remain in positive territory and are stronger than they were last year at this time in the majority of countries and territories that ManpowerGroup surveys. Other findings include:

  • Employers in Brazil, Taiwan, India and Singapore report the strongest job prospects, while hiring plans are weakest in Greece and Italy. Employers in Israel and Slovakia are surveyed for the first time this quarter.
  • Job prospects in the Asia Pacific region remain strong, despite expectations among employers in India and China to slow hiring from three months ago.
  • In Europe, labor market trends follow the same mixed results seen throughout 2011, with positive hiring activity expected in 18 of 23 countries surveyed.
  • In the Americas, employers in Brazil report the most optimistic hiring intentions for the quarter ahead. In contrast, U.S. employers expect to continue their cautious hiring approach through the end of the year.

 

Employment Outlook: Hiring expectations in Q4-2011 weaken but remain positive

80% of all companies use Social Media to recruit

Is recruiting via social media effective? And how do you determine wether those efforts are succesful? That’s the question being asked as more and more businesses are investing in increasing amounts of social media recruiting.  With no standard means of measurement, there’s a wide variety of goals and metrics used to define the ROI of social strategies. Currently 64% of companies said they have succesfully hired via social media. Already 80.2% of companies are using Social Media to recruit and another 8.7% of companies are planning to begin this year (results of Jobvite survey, July 2011).

80% of all companies use Social Media to recruit

Screening CVs with iPad becomes ‘social’ and enriches talent pools

Dutch product development Cureka! introduced for global recruitment market

Cureka! Is officially launched on August 7th in the Dutch and the  world’s first tool that enables recruiters and managers to screen resumes on the iPad and simultaneously enrich and classify CVs. By adding ‘(dis)likes’, ‘sticky notes’ and photos, CVs become more ‘social’.  High quality talent pools can be built with a touch on a screen. By making the screening of CVs an activity independent of the office, the recruitment process is shortened and recruiters and managers can on average spend one hour less per recruited candidate.Screening CVs with iPad becomes ‘social’ and enriches talent pools

The Future Of Mobile Recruitment: Checklist (part 3)

In four articles I’ll describe the developments in mobile recruitment. In Part 1 the explosion of mobile internet in the coming years and the evolution of online recruitment to mobile was discussed. The implications of mobile devices and the required actions for HR / Recruitment Managers were described in part 2.

Here’s a quick checklist to see if your career site is ‘future proof’ for candidates visiting via a mobile device. Because they will do so! And in the near future they will do this more frequent and expect a good user experience. Therefore, be prepared and perform the following checklist.

The Future Of Mobile Recruitment: Checklist (part 3)