Facebook and LinkedIn most popular with Singapore job seekers
In survey by Adecco in Singapore, Facebook was voted the top choice for job seekers, who were asked which social media or on-line platform they preferred to use to obtain career and job related information.
Of the 130 survey respondents, 20% stated that their top choice would be to use Facebook, with 17% preferring LinkedIn as their portal of choice to support career advancement. The survey also showed that 2% of respondents would choose a blog site as their first choice, with less than 1% opting for Twitter.
Social media platforms provide job candidates with various ways to support a job application or to help with their career development. These include researching a company that they may be wanting to work for, connecting with individuals already working with that company, or reading blogs to get a feel for what it is like to work for a specific organization.
Lynne Ng, Regional Director for Adecco South East Asia, commented “Social Media has become very important to today’s job seeker in helping them to obtain information about a potential employer and to see if they would fit into that particular work environment. By reading blogs and participating in on-line conversations, an applicant can be thoroughly prepared for a job interview and have a number of good questions lined-up for the interview day”
Sources and references: Sandbox Advisors, Adecco