Social Networking Sites
Social Networking Sites is one of the tool used by many recruiters’ to hire employees.
But can we conclude that these social networking sites are of more worth than formal recruiting tools??
I believe social networking site would have been boon to certain recruiter’s but it won’t be of same importance to each and every recruiter. Generally on these sites we find people who want to keep their social connections alive as they may not be able to connect with each and everyone whom they know.
On these sites people generally share their personal information rather than about their professional, carrier wise, competence or caliber information, we are also unable to judge performance or knowledge in that particular field about that person, apart from sites such as LinkedIn or Recruting Blogs which are solely dedicated for professional interactions.
We can have basic information about the candidate such as where he is working, location, qualification and information beyond which is not possible. Again the short listed candidate may get rejected if he has not uploaded any decent photograph or he is not looking good or seen heavily in drinking, smoking or partying.
Secondly are these information’s reliable? We as a recruiter really need to work hard on this aspect as it ultimately deals with our work. A Consultant is best known in the market for its value added and best service given to the Client. So it depends on every individual recruiter how and to what extent he / she can rely on these social networking
I agree what Ruchi has said. We should keep in mind that name itself says it’s a social networking site rather professional networking site. If you ask me, many a time I don’t write qualification or about my past career. Some time I don’t upload photographs also. So these are purely for increasing network and not for recruitment. Yes you can get some help in recruitment like if I am doing job in a company, I may have various contact who are in the same field or probably same company also. This gives you additional information about a group of people who are of same grade or profession. So it can be use as a supporting tool for getting recruitment. But surely it can not be main tools for recruitment.
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