With all the latest studies revealing that Facebook is a productivity killer or that employees get fired because of Facebook, now its time for a study related to the employers usage of social networking sites. Last year, 22% of employers reported that they were using social networking sites to research their job candidates, and now, the number increased to 45%. These are the findings of a CareerBuilder survey conducted on June 2009 on more than 2,600 hiring managers.
For checking the background and the online activity of job candidates, 29% of employers use Facebook, 26% use LinkedIn and 21% use MySpace. As for the top industries most likely to screen job candidates via social networking sites we can find the IT companies (63%) and Professional & Business Services companies (53%).
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Social networking is a vital marketing tool for businesses today. However, it can take a lot of time to stay on top of all of your social networks. You want to make sure that you’re active on the sites but that you do not waste so much time using them that you are compromising the rest of your productivity. For this reason, it’s important to learn to streamline social networking. This is done by reducing the number of social networks that you use, relying on posting tools and setting aside a specific amount of time per day for social networking. You may also want to consider hiring someone to assist with your social networking.
8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook
A few days ago I was informing you about studies that revealed that Facebook is a productivity killer. It seems that this has been closely monitored by many managers lately, because now it’s time for another study to show that Facebook is also a reason for firing employees. There is no wonder, since numbers shown that 87% of employees using the social networking site at work couldn’t define a clear business reason for using it.
Proofpoint Survey says that 17 percent of companies have issues with employee’s use of social media. Furthermore, 8% of companies reported that they have dismissed employees because of their behavior on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. An alarming thing is Continue reading ‘8% of US companies fired employees because of Facebook’