How has Facebook developed as a social recruitment channel?
All social statistics of 800 Facebook career pages over the last year have been analyzed. Let’s dig into the figures of Facebook to find out.
Advanced sourcing: diversity recruiting (tip #2)
Search engines are not very intelligent and therefore it is often difficult to find what you are looking for. Every Recruiter is by now familiar with boolean search commands but another tactic or approach can… Advanced sourcing: diversity recruiting (tip #2)
Everything you need to know about the new Facebook jobboard
Today Facebook launched the Social Jobs Partnership’s (SJP) application [https://www.facebook.com/socialjobs/app_417814418282098], a new tool that will make it easier for people on Facebook to find and share employment opportunities. The new SJP app is a central… Everything you need to know about the new Facebook jobboard
Does Social Recruitment Monitor rank the best pages?
No, but the new Social Recruitment Monitor does contain an interesting list of Facebook Career Pages from the Top 200 firms in the world. According to its press release: The Social Recruitment Monitor is the… Does Social Recruitment Monitor rank the best pages?
Everything you wanted to know about Facebook – Facts and Figures 2012
Did you know that Facebook is responsible for 20% of all US Internet traffic? That might explain why they’re worth approximately 100 Billion Dollars these days. Here’s a list of the most compelling facts and figures about Facebook.com.
- 901 million monthly active users.
- Most popular page: Facebook, with 67,385,331 fans.
- 300 million photos uploaded per day, as of March 31, 2012.
- By the end of March 2011 there had been 125 billion friend connections
- Users are registering 3.2 billion Likes and Comments per day.
- Average time spent is 19 minutes a day.
- Most popular app: Socialcam, with 51,500,000 users.
- More than 42 million Pages with ten or more Likes at the end of March 2012.
- Facebook is available in more than 70 languages.
Everything you wanted to know about Facebook – Facts and Figures 2012
Facebook has more job seeking volume overall in US
A new national survey from Jobvite reveals more than 22 million Americans used social networks to find their most recent job opportunity – up 7.7 million from last year’s survey. One in six members of the workforce say an online social network was one of the sources they used to find a job, and those with more contacts get better results. With the national unemployment rate at 9.0% in October, fierce competition has 54% of all job seekers using Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter in their hunt for work.
10 facts why Facebook matters for Employer Branding
So you don’t have a Facebook Fan Page yet? And you don’t have a LIKE button on your Career Site or Job Pages? Think again. Here are 10 quick facts you should know about consumer behavior on Facebook.
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Facebook Like for recruiting?
The Facebook Like button was released 1 year ago and has been a great success. According to Facebook, 10.000 new websites are adding this social tool every day. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including 80% of U.S. Top 100 websites and over 50% of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites.
The result of all this? Every month, more than 250 million people engage with Facebook on external websites. Moreover, a study last month by Eventbrite concluded that a “Like” is more profitable than a tweet.
And Facebook’s success hasn’t gone without notice. Google recently launched +1, its answer to Facebook’s Like button, and also LinkedIn has a Share button these days to integrate in your website. Facebook Like for recruiting?
Everything you wanted to know about Facebook
This infographic (and presentation) is all about Facebook statistics and it shows a demogrpahic breakdown by continent, macro-area and countries of the 596,371,760 users worldwide.
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