Social Recruiting and Your Executive Job Search - Executive Career Brandâ„¢

Social Recruiting and Your Executive Job Search Are you a senior-level executive still hesitating to embrace social networking for your job search and healthy career management? Did you know that more than 90% of employers will use social networks and social media to find talent in 2012? Thats what Jobvite, a leading recruitment platform for the social Web, found in their 2012 Social Recruiting Survey, after polling more than 1,000 human resources and recruitment professionals on their social recruiting activities and intentions. Social recruiting has become a necessary and highly effective way for them to quickly assess a large candidate pool and identify good-fit talent. And it costs them less than sorting through thousands of resumes and saves the expense of posting to job boards. Now in its fifth year, the survey shows that recruiters no longer focus just on . Theyre relying more heavily on the other 2 in the big 3, Twitter and