73,3% of companies use social networks to hire employees

eMarketer has published results of the survey recently conducted by recruiting platform Jobvite. The results are really interesting. So, according to the information gathered by Jobvite almost 73,3% of the companies which participated in the survey acknowledged that they search for their employees online, namely in social networks. 9,3% of the surveyed companies just thinking of starting to find employees on social networking sites, 3,5% said that they do not know and only 13,8% of the firms answered negatively to the question.

Despite popularity and success of Facebook the leader in search of new talent is LinkedIn. According to statistics 80% of companies used this social network to hire new employees. 55% of surveyed said that they browsed through Facebook to find new stuff, and 45% of polled used Twitter for that purposes.

Also it was stated that 90% of candidates found on LinkedIn got the job. The success of other 2 social networks was not so impressive: only 27.5% and14.2% of people found on Facebook and Twitter relatively were recruited.     

As a result of such activity online job boards risk to face problems with a demand. Even today 30% of employers have lowered spending on job boards and search firms preferring social networks to them.