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Businesses tend to exert a large amount of effort growing their Facebook communities. After all, Facebook is one of the best platforms to engage with customers, colleagues and individuals that are genuinely interested in what your business is up to. So wouldn’t you want your job openings in front of the people that are most passionate about your organization?
It’s no accident that Ramapo is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live in the United States, and we now have another reason to praise the efforts of the town and its leaders. Today, Supervisor Christopher P. St. Lawrence and the Ramapo Town Board launched The Ramapo Jobs Connector in order to boost local employment and enhance economic development.
Joshua Waldman, author of Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies, is recognized as one of the nations top authorities in Social Media Career Advancement. To learn Joshua’s secret strategies for shortening the job search and getting the right job right away, you can watch his exclusive video training.
Raman Gulati is the Senior Director of Product Development at TweetMyJobs.
Social media is a topic that’s omnipresent at TweetMyJobs, and we’re constantly excited by the articles we read that illustrate how the social web is ingrained in our culture. Whether it’s humanitarian awareness evolving into the most viral video of all time, one speech generating over 750,000 tweets, or the meteoric rise of another social network, one thing is consistent: people love social media.
The highly anticipated February jobs report was released on Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and revealed the national unemployment rate held steady at 8.3%. The economy added 227,000 jobs in February and, according to some, is a positive indication of our country’s economic recovery. The BLS releases the unemployment numbers every month, but February’s figures are particularly interesting because of the political implications they have in an election year.
It’s no secret that businesses understand the impact that social media can have on brand awareness, recruiting, and the all-important bottom line. The sheer size of these networks is staggering, and it allows businesses to put their companies in front of an enormous amount of people. As of yesterday, Twitter reached 500 million users a little over a month after Facebook announced they expect to have 1 billion users in August—which means roughly 1 out of 7 people on earth will have a Facebook page. There is no doubt that social media is here for the long haul.
Three years ago this week we launched TweetMyJobs with a very clear objective: leverage social media to revolutionize online recruiting and help job seekers better connect with employers. Facebook and Twitter were only a few years old but their power in changing the way companies could do business was obvious.
The astounding growth in social media has revolutionized the way that people are connecting with each other, and forced companies to rethink how to find quality candidates. Industry specific stories, press releases, or infographics appear week in and week out claiming that social recruiting has arrived as the golden standard, and that companies not fully embracing social will lose talent to their innovative competitors. At TweetMyJobs, we believed an honest evaluation of the industry was necessary to determine whether or not job seekers and employers are “buying in” to the hype. So we went straight to the source.
We decided to listen to what job seekers and employers think about using social media during their job search. After surveying over 2,000 job seekers and 400 company representatives, we transformed that data into a brief video to evaluate the state of social recruiting in 2012 and pose the question: “Is Social Recruiting Real?”
The survey provided many interesting statistics, but a few caught our eye: