Outplacement Opportunities with New Job Search Strategy

A new whitepaper by outplacement and career transition software company, Insala, highlights the importance of not only creating an online identity management strategy, but the growing role of social media in recruitment.

The whitepaper, “Outplacement Opportunities in Online Identity Management: Leading the Next Job Search Paradigm Shift”, discusses the use of social media sites for recruitment and potential candidates by employers, in addition to the high percentage of job seekers that have accounts on popular media sites.

The whitepaper also reveals that many job seekers do not fully comprehend that with the proper use of these sites, capturing the attention of prospective employers will be greater. Social media sites are more often used for personal than professional endeavors, with 89% of adults on social network sites claiming they use their accounts to keep up with friends, as compared to 28% who use them to promote themselves professionally, according to The Pew 2009 Research Center survey. A study by Harvey Nash, a global recruitment consultancy, indicates that only 12% of online 18-24 year olds use social media sites to find job leads.

Posted by RecruitingTrends.com on October 21, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry