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
