We ran a webinar today with Elaine Orler and Jason Corsello of Knowledge Infusion about what changes we should expect from recruiting technology in the next year.
I learned a lot on the call, but one of the polls that we took really made me stop and think. Here it is:
| # of Respondents | % of Respondents | |
| 298 | 66.82% | |
| 35 | 7.85% | |
| MySpace | 7 | 1.57% |
| YouTube | 0 | 0.00% |
| 4 | 0.90% | |
| Other | 16 | 3.59% |
| None of the above | 86 | 19.28% |
| Total Respondents | 446 | 100.00% |
That LinkedIn was the most popular did not surprise me — it’s not exactly a secret that it has become one of the critical tools of our profession. I was surprised that LinkedIn was such an overwhelming favorite – nobody else was even remotely close.
The way we asked the question had people answering which of these services they are most likely to use the most. But I wonder — if we had phrased the question to ask if recruiters are using these sites at all for professional services, would the answers have been any different?
Asked a different way, aside from a very small portion of the recruiting community, are we really using social media effectively?