Allow me to share some statistics regarding social media taken from the web:
1. Facebook now has over 250 million users and these users are sharing over 10 billion photos.
2. YouTube is streaming 1.2 billion videos a day, worldwide.
3. Unique visitors in Twitter are at 32 million in April 2009 and each day, Twitter users are generating roughly 18 million updates.
4. Recent survey done by YouthSays.com found that in 900 respondents, 95% of them have Friendster account, 90% have Facebook and 38% of them have a Twitter account.
Human resources are now looking towards non-conventional ways to look for candidates. Gone are the days where job seekers rely on physical and online advertising print and word of mouth to hunt for jobs; be it full time or part-time. Social media is the way in the near future. Using the power of social network, job seekers can feel connected emotionally with a sense of loyalty. On the other hand, employers can leverage on its scalability and efficiency to obtain the ideal candidates to work for them.
One of the most powerful social media tool in the market that all of us can literally use is none other Twitter. With its unique feature of being able to share virtually everything in a matter of seconds or in Twitter language re-tweet (RT), Twitter has become an online “viral effect” which is virtually dimensionless. We can safely say that Twitter will undoubtedly play a HUGE role in the social media scene of job-hunting.
Therefore, follow us in Twitter today by clicking HERE. We also encourage all of you to introduce your Twitter account HERE. Let us all share the power of social media with everyone today!
