75% Of U.S. Workforce Looking For A New Job, And 34% Using Twitter To Find It [STUDY]

A new study has revealed that 3 out of every 4 (75 percent) of the U.S. workforce are actively looking for, or consider themselves open to, a new job, and 76 percent of those are now using social media in their hunt for employment.

Conducted in September, Jobvite’s Social Job Seeker 2012 survey polled more than 2,100 adults (aged 18+), and discovered that while Facebook remains the leading social tool amongst the American workforce, with its 83 percent adoption rate holding steady on 2011’s 82 percent, both Twitter (46 percent, up from 37 percent) and LinkedIn (41 percent, up from 32 percent) are very much on the rise.

For Twitter specifically, Jobvite made the following observations:

  • 34% of job seekers use Twitter to help find work; up from 26% in 2011
  • 11% had a contact share a job on Twitter (vs.
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