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Infographic: State of LinkedIn

I recently presented some statistics and trends 2010 about LinkedIn, based on directly measured visitor stats. Another way of getting a better understanding of the demographics of the LinkedIn user is the LinkedIn Direct Ads section.

In the infographic below an overview is given of some interesting numbers about member participation per country, industry type, company size and job role in LinkedIn. Please note that Gender and Age stats are not accurate due to the fact that these are not mandatory fields on LinkedIn.com (most of the people don’t complete this info so this data is calculated).

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Infographic: State of LinkedIn

Applicant Tracking / Recruitment (ATS) research shows great improvements in using stand-alone software

End 2009 research was conducted in 164 Australian organisations with over 500 employees, representing a total of over 730,000 employees, about their Human Resources Information System (HRIS). The responses have been collated in the “Navigo Australian HR Tech Report 2010” (free copy to download).

Over 70% of enterprise-level organisations in Australia use a HRIS. Not surprisingly is that larger organisations are more likely to adopt a human resources information system. The larger an organisation is, the more HR solutions are technology-enabled as part of the organisation’s HRIS.

Interesting fact is that Applicant tracking / recruitment ATS stands-out as the solution area where organisations most commonly adopt stand-alone systems i.e. best-of-breed solutions. HRIS-based systems were less common (like SAP HR or PeopleSoft). Applicant tracking systems are also the area with the largest differential in satisfaction amongst all the HR solution areas surveyed. Satisfied or very satisfied results for those employing stand-alone software rated 70% versus 15% for those with manual systems. So it doesn’t come as a shock, despite being the second most common, manual systems are deeply dissatisfactory compared to stand-alone software. It’s easy to conclude that organisations with manual recruiting processes will be able to achieve very noticeable improvements when adopting a stand-alone system.

System Adoption – Applicant Tracking Recruitment

Applicant Tracking / Recruitment (ATS) research shows great improvements in using stand-alone software

Just say no to social media!

Something to think about, is Social Media a new addiction? Are you a social media addict?

According to research from Retrovo almost half of the respondents said they check in on the social media scene in bed, during the night or as soon as they wake up in the morning. Between 15% and 23% of of social media users saying this is how they get their morning “news”. What about the fact that 56% of social media users need to check FaceBook at least once a day? According to this study it appears that social media may have begun to replace more conventional sources for news with many social media users. But you already knew that, didn’t you?

Just say no to social media!