Job Hunting? The recruiters are on Facebook and Linkedin

Enlightening article about how recruiting practices continue to migrate towards Facebook and Linkedin. If you aren’t looking at options outside job boards, here are some fun facts that might have you thinking twice:

Facebook hires account for less than 1% of the total hires companies are making, according to Jobs2Web, but could rival job boards in 2012 if trends hold

LinkedIn’s revenue from its hiring solutions segment—which among other things helps recruiters search through their profile database for candidates—grew 170%

Beknown, which hosts a job board and other recruiter services, launched its own Facebook app in June and now has nearly 800,000 monthly users

Candidates have been 50% more likely to apply to positions they found through Facebook than through other means, said Mr. Staney [from VMware, Inc. “[Job boards] just blast it out. This is much more efficient and targeted.”

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Job Hunting? The recruiters are on Facebook and Linkedin

Enlightening article about how recruiting practices continue to migrate towards Facebook and Linkedin. If you aren’t looking at options outside job boards, here are some fun facts that might have you thinking twice:

Facebook hires account for less than 1% of the total hires companies are making, according to Jobs2Web, but could rival job boards in 2012 if trends hold

LinkedIn’s revenue from its hiring solutions segment—which among other things helps recruiters search through their profile database for candidates—grew 170%

Beknown, which hosts a job board and other recruiter services, launched its own Facebook app in June and now has nearly 800,000 monthly users

Candidates have been 50% more likely to apply to positions they found through Facebook than through other means, said Mr. Staney [from VMware, Inc. “[Job boards] just blast it out. This is much more efficient and targeted.”

Career Transitions: Five BEs to Maximize Your Next Move

50% of the people reading this post are unhappy with their careers and thinking about an exit strategy.

That staggering statistic is from the What’s Working ^TM Survey released by Mercer three weeks ago. According to the press release, “Nearly one in three (32%) US workers is seriously considering leaving his or her organization at the present time, up sharply from 23% in 2005. Meanwhile, another 21% are not looking to leave but view their employers unfavorably and have rock-bottom scores on key measures of engagement, a term that describes a combination of an employee’s loyalty, commitment and motivation.”

No one wants to be unhappy in their jobs but here we are. The good news is that 50% of people enjoy what they do and are satisfied with their employers. So if you have diagnosed yourself as unsatisfied, what should you do?
As a career coach, I have helped professionals and students prepare for their next career steps; here are five individual qualities I have identified as critical to any successful transition.

Connecting for Careers – Four Ways to Expand your Network

I was recently on a professional development call about successful job search strategies and heard a remarkable statistic. 80% of all open positions are not published on traditional career boards. That means that every time you peruse sites like Monster, Career Builder and Indeed, you are only seeing 20% of the available job market. In many cases the jobs you are interested in have already been filled reducing that number even more. So how do you tap the larger part of the iceberg and find those undisclosed positions? One of the best options is through networking. Here are four ways to expand your network and open doors to new professional opportunities.