Social Media Now Used By Great Majority Of Hiring Companies, But Traditional Methods Still Reign

According to Jobvite’s latest Social Recruiting Survey, the vast majority of companies (92 percent) use social media in their recruiting efforts.

Yet old-school methods are still considered the best way to find high-quality candidates: when asked to rank the quality of candidates from a variety of recruiting techniques including referrals, job boards, social networks, direct sourcing, and so on, social media didn’t crack the top three. (They were referrals, direct sourcing, and internal transfers, if you were curious.)

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