{"id":3928,"date":"2013-06-19T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T19:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2024-08-05T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:02:09","slug":"social-media-dominates-2013-recruiting-channels-survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/site\/2013\/06\/19\/social-media-dominates-2013-recruiting-channels-survey-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Dominates 2013: Recruiting Channels Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"h-slideshow-title\">\n\tThe results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/softwareadvice.com\">Software Advice<\/a> 2013 Recruiting Channels Survey, sponsored in part by PCRecruiter, are in! Here&#39;s what they&#39;ve found:\n<\/p>\n<ul class=\"transcripts h-transcripts\">\n<li>\n\t\tCurrent Use of Recruiting Channels: 97 percent of participating recruiters said they have used employee referrals to source new hires in 2013. Traditional job boards and company careers pages came in at number two and three respectively. Social media was a close fourth, with 80 percent of recruiters saying they have used these channels to source hires.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tChannels Delivering the Highest Volume of Candidates: The channel delivering the most candidates into recruiters&rsquo; inboxes was still traditional job boards, while employee referrals came in second. Social media came in at a strong third.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tChannels Delivering the Highest Quality of Candidates: While traditional job boards delivered the highest volume of candidates for recruiters, employee referrals still deliver (by far) the best candidates for open positions. However, more respondents said social media delivered higher quality candidates than traditional job boards.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tProjected Use and Budget for Each Channel in 2013: Although traditional job boards, employee referrals and company careers pages were the top three most used channels, recruiters plan to invest more in social media in 2013.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tConclusion: The data would seem to support the hypothesis that social media recruiting is only going to increase in the coming years, but only time will tell.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tFor the complete results, check out Software Advice&#39;s slideshare here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/SoftwareAdvice\/2013-23205044\">http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/SoftwareAdvice\/2013-23205044<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,33],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-topics","tag-surveys"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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