Social Networking Sites… You might have heard about it day in and day out. Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, LinkedIn (There is a lot of debate going on about it being a professionals networking or Social Networking
site). The reason for getting into this topic was to understand from
the end users about its impact on the Recruitment process. (Today’s)
The question that I always wanted to know from the Recruitment Guru’s out there was “Impact of Social Networking Sites in today’s Recruitment process!
There was an encouraging response from the professionals; they too were keen to know about the actual impact of these sites. In my previous blog there was a special mention about Job Portals going social!!
Naukri.com has come up with an option to post jobs directly on my
social / professional networking sites. This was a huge step forward
(in the right direction), as this will help the recruiters to tap the
resources having presence in the Social networking world out there.
Following data was collected from an online poll on LinkedIn, 350 respondents were part of this poll (HR professionals).
Here are the results:
LinkedIn Poll
59% say Plays an important role
28% say at an early stage
11% say not much of an Impact
Well, what does this mean? Can we conclude that it’s a win win situation for the recruiters / hiring managers? Or can we still say that it’s got a huge potential, but it still needs to be tested. Most
of the Hiring managers would like to have an ROI for these sites. Is
that possible?
Social Networking sites have created a place in the Recruiting world. It will be interesting to see the real share in the hiring process.
