Job seekers: 3 simple ways to make recruiters love your Facebook profile

According to the latest Jobvite survey, released Wednesday, 66 percent of job recruiters polled use Facebook when evaluating a candidate. Additionally, 73 percent of recruiters polled said they’ve hired a candidate through social media — 26 percent of that group said they hired someone via Facebook.

Though LinkedIn remains the dominant social network for recruiting, the study shows that a growing number of recruiters are at least checking a candidate’s Facebook profile before making a hiring decision.

How can you make sure you’ve got all the information a recruiter wants to see? We talked with Jobvite Chief Marketing Officer Kimberley Kasper to find out.

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