Difference between web service and social media site as a tool for finding a job
From traditional newspaper job posting to social media recruitment companies have a come a long way in the recruiting process not without some advantages and disadvantages. There are a handful of popular web services like dice, monster, careerbuilder, etc., wherein recruiters get to post their job requirements apart from the traditional methods. For a large multi-national corporate that recruits hundreds of people everyday web services are better fit than a social media posting for a good candidate. Also social media highly helps in recruiting high profile candidates who have an open social media history than for other regular mid-level job requirements.
Web services offer a wide variety of job in a particular industry at different levels. Candidates get an option to choose from a few listings and narrow down the job that they want to apply. Prospective job applicants could get to search jobs pertaining to defined geographical locations and at desired salary range. In contrast to web-services, social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, or FaceBook also have job listings from large corporate or from small and medium businesses. But these openings are rather limited or totally outnumbered when compared to web-services openings.
Advantages and Disadvantages
- Most social media openings will give us an opportunity to initiate contact with the recruiting authority
- The chances for the candidates to get recommended are more, if he is a good fit for the position and also enables the candidate to provide more relevant data to the employer about his previous employment
- Social media recruitment provides the human touch to recruiting when compared to the keyword filtering offered by web-services, which is considered to be a relationship driven connection
- In contrast to the above advantages for somebody who have posted drug usages, obscene or grammatically incorrect words in their social media updates that is sure going to stop them from landing in their dream job
When and why would a position not be made available Online
- A position that needs lot of creative talent should not be advertised online that restricts the applicant’s creative nature with keyword filtering concept.
- For positions that need high level management skills, has to be sourced through referrals and networks. It need not be advertised online which enables thousands of applications being submitted which again limits the human screening potential
- Any position that needs human interventions from first level to final level of recruitment need not be advertised online
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