Lately I noticed a fast growing trend that companies are creating personal (user) profiles on LinkedIn and start connecting with people and joining groups. As an owner of a large Recruiter group on LinkedIn, Recruitment Consultants with over 64.000 members, I’ m getting 100+ requests per day to join. More and more of these requests […]
Hyves Maintains Position as Top Social Networking Site in the Netherlands Despite Facebook’s Rapid Advances ComScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of social networking usage in the Netherlands. The study reveals that the Dutch social networking market continues to grow strongly as sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin extend […]
The Facebook Like button was released 1 year ago and has been a great success. According to Facebook, 10.000 new websites are adding this social tool every day. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including 80% of U.S. Top 100 websites and over 50% of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites. The result […]
I recently wrote about the importance of work location and showing your workplace on your (career)site. Transparency is everywhere, except when it comes to workplaces. Because people spend a lot of time at work it’s important to find a nice workplace. And for this, you want to taste the workplace experience. But corporate websites and […]
Looking for the current highest traffic social networks? Check out this infographic with 29 very active social networks that have at least one million visitors per day. Of course Facebook dominates the list. Interestingly, if you combine all the daily visitors for the other 28 social networks on this list you end up with two-thirds […]
CareerXroads Finds Out in Annual Source of Hires Study CareerXroads releases its 10th Annual Sources of Hire (SOH) Study – a snapshot of how large, highly-competitive, high-profile firms find their employees. Tracking and monitoring the sources of actual hires tells companies where to dedicate their hiring resources and tells job seekers where to direct their […]
Have you claimed your LinkedIn Company Page yet? It’s an easy way for job seekers to be informed about the latest news and developments within your company and, moreover, when you post vacancies they are the first to know about it. Below is a roadmap to do this. But before you start, you must meet […]
This infographic (and presentation) is all about Facebook statistics and it shows a demogrpahic breakdown by continent, macro-area and countries of the 596,371,760 users worldwide. [slideshare id=6604893&doc=facebook2011-110117151818-phpapp01]
If you are wondering how to search for jobs on Twitter, the largest job board in the world according to some people, here’s a great instruction video from Mashable. It shows you how to use the advanced Twitter search to find a job. What are you best tips and tricks to find people for jobs? […]
LinkedIn is working on a re-design of the Company Profile pages. It includes rich information about a company, including new hires, employees, recent tweets, activities, news articles and insightful statistics based on LinkedIn user profiles.