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9 Intriguing Social Recruiting News Stories – 6th July 2015

Social Talent

In the news this week: Job Boards Still A Leading Way To Fill Vacancies. As more than one survey (including our own) has pointed out over the last few years, job boards are far from dead. As the accompanying chart shows, jobseekers who found work via a job board have fallen almost 23% in 10 years.

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How to Enhance Your Career Prospects

Recruiting Blogs

This platform was launched on 5 th May 2003, making it older than both Facebook and Twitter. While Twitter doesn’t have a built-in jobs board, there are many avenues and accounts which share relevant jobs. Its primary purpose is to provide networking on a professional level.

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Using Social Media to Enhance Your Career Prospects

Recruiting Blogs

LinkedIn This platform was launched on 5th May 2003, making it older than both Facebook and Twitter. While Twitter doesn’t have a built-in jobs board, there are many accounts which share relevant jobs. Its primary purpose is to provide networking on a professional level.

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Using Social Media to Enhance Your Career Prospects

Recruiting Blogs

As lockdown circumstances effect a lot of people around the world due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the time we spend on social media has soared in recent months, with Facebook apps being logged in by 3 billion users in April 2020 alone. . This platform was launched on 5 th May 2003, making it older than both Facebook and Twitter.

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Recruiting Wars: For World?s Largest Networking Site, German Incursion Far From Blitzkrieg

SmartRecruiters

One anecdotal cause for LinkedIn’s uptick was scandal-ridden Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, pulling back on actual news in the FB newsfeed. Also founded in 2003, Hamburg’s Xing remains the number-one business-based social network in Europe’s German speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, and Austria: “DACH” in Germacronym), with 14.3M

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The Best Places to Look When Recruiting Tech Talent for Startups

Ability Screen

Recruiting tech talent for startups has gotten smoother since tech giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook have transformed the overall perception of joining high-growth companies from a risky career move to a promising opportunity. Unicorn Hunt is arguably Europe’s most popular job board for startups and scale-ups.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Uncubed

The idea for the online platform came to him in an actual dream he had about building a “monster” job board that everyone could access. Job listing sites were some of the few that weathered the dot-com crash that laid waste to many of the consumer web’s high-flying properties. They had revenue, after all.

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