new media never replaces old media, only the balance shifts - this was true at the dawn of the internet as a recruiting resource and remains true with the emergence of social media platforms
ps - see interesting discussion on ERE re this topic http://community.ere.net/blogs/sittingxlegged/2006/10/the-impending...
and seems that job boards still rank #6 in quality of hire http://www.ere.net/2012/04/05/our-most-effective-source-of-hire/ so I don't expect sudden death anytime soon - despite predictions to the contrary that go back more than 5 yrs
Hey Sylvia,
I definitely agree that job boards are nowhere near done, but I do think the end is in site for career sites--job listings housed within a company's own website. These sites are difficult to access unless you're expressly looking for them, whereas postings on social media sites come to a person's attention in a stream of other social info they're already receiving.
There are many different opinion, stats, and articles about where hires come from. And I haven't looked, but really would think most companies want to know where the quality hires come from. Most systems are impossible to be 100% accurate for tracking these type of stats because of human input, as well as numerous other variables.
@Jamie, I think we still get a lot of value from our job listings, especially with the aggregate sites pulling them.
(Which is another example of what I referenced above - it's very difficult to always know exactly where applicants/hires came from originally!)
@Amber, any good recruiter will absolutely have their job postings in all locations possible. Having said that, tracking can be difficult when you have jobs listed on so many different sites. However, I think it is actually easier to track from social media since there is such a wealth of information. I currently work at Work4 Labs (http://www.work4labs.com) and our app Work for Us allows you to track your ROI for each posting, see how it was shared, and even be integrated into your ATS.
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