{"id":840,"date":"2012-09-25T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2012-09-25T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:03:59","slug":"how-facebook-has-become-a-powerful-online-recruitment-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pp.dc86.work\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"How facebook has become a powerful online recruitment tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-240\" title=\"200px-Facebook.svg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/200px-Facebook.svg_.png\" alt=\"Using facebook as an online recruitment tool\" width=\"200\" height=\"75\" \/>We all know how useful facebook can be for keeping in touch with friends, past and present. But the popular social network is fast proving itself as a powerful <a title=\"Net Recruit - Online Recruitment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\">online recruitment<\/a> tool. But how much do you really know about Facebook? Heres some interesting facts to help convince you about the potentials of advertising your candidate positions on facebook&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>500 million users log into Facebook each day<\/strong><br \/>\nWith an audience that big, it&#8217;s hard not to target a pool of potential candidates who are likely to fill your vacancies. Another great aspect of this fact is that this figure was a 48% increase from the previous year. Also, more astonishingly over 223 million of these are from\u00a0Europe\u00a0which is great news for UK recruiters and HR managers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The people who use facebook are between the ages of 25-34<br \/>\n<\/strong>This is the ideal age range for candidates who have graduated and gained a few years of much valued work experience in a relevant position, allowing them to further enhance their sector knowledge and skills.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Facebook users are&#8230; 47% male 53% female<br \/>\n<\/strong>With quite a fair split of genders, you can obtain peace of mind that your facebook recruitment efforts will be seen by roughly the same amount of males and females.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Some other interesting facts about facebook:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>The average time spent on Facebook is 20 minutes\u00a0per visit.<\/li>\n<li>80% of US \u00a0social network users prefer to connect to brands through Facebook.<\/li>\n<li>Ironically 8% of US companies have fired\u00a0someone because of what they \u00a0have posted on social media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So can you afford to miss out with online recruitment via facebook? Net Recruit have been helping HR\/business managers recruit staff online using facebook for several years with great success. Find out more about <a title=\"How recruitment on facebook works\" href=\"http:\/\/www.net-recruit.co.uk\/how-it-works-5-simple-steps\">how it works&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*The facts and charts used in this article have been extracted from the free hubspot report <strong>&#8220;47 handy facebook stats and charts&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; you can read the full findings of the report <a title=\"View facebook stats report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hubspot.com\/Portals\/53\/docs\/ebooks\/47%20facebook%20handy%20stats%20and%20charts2.pdf\">here<\/a>&gt;<!-- pingbacker_start --><\/p>\n<h4>Related Blogs<\/h4>\n<p><!-- pingbacker_end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know how useful facebook can be for keeping in touch with friends, past and present. But the popular social network is fast proving itself as a powerful online recruitment tool. 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