Experts in the field caution both job seekers and employing organisations that online social and professional networks should be incorporated as adjunctive measures on both ends and not relied upon exclusively or instead of certain aspects of traditional recruitment, hiring, and job searching. Finally, the other obvious implication of the growing use of social networking sites (in particular) for this purpose is that one must become more careful than many have been in the past in terms of what information one posts in the vast public Internet forum to which prospective employers now share ready access.
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According to representatives of the most popular professional online network, LinkedIn, the firm has experienced a dramatic increase in use and popularity among job seekers since the onset of the current economic recession. Specifically, in the UK, LinkedIn has experienced an increase of forty-three percent in job postings and a forty-one percent increase in job applications filed through its services in between the 4th Quarter of 2008 and the 2nd Quarter of 2009. Business recruitment analysts suggest that much of the increase in popularity among job seekers is attributable to the low cost of job searching utilising this methodology. However, the company has also benefited from a thirty-five percent increase of its paid premium services during this same period, indicating that the availability of free networking opportunities is not the only reason for its popularity. Indeed, the company projects that as social online networking becomes more and more commonplace in society, its role specifically in connection with job searching and recruitment functions will reflect corresponding increases as well. In that regard, professional recruiters already consider LinkedIn and similar social and professional networks to be extremely valuable with respect to identifying employment candidates with particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required by specific employers and employment firms. That is substantially a function of the fact that employers and recruiters have long understood the relative value of...
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