social media showdown heats up for few job openings

As the year ends making way for a the New Year, the social media showdown heats up for the few job openings on the market. For starters, more and more job seekers are opting for the greener pastures that social media sites promise. Conversely, traditional job boards and job search engines are struggling to hold onto the inevitable change in tide towards social media networking. So what's driving the mass exodus? Well for one thing social media networking is people oriented, whereas job boards and job search engines are object oriented (no pun intended). People prefer to engage with other people - especially where gainful employment is concerned. Moreover, job seekers are fed up with some job boards publishing meritless job postings with the sole intent of collecting resumes that simply get sold or otherwise included in a resume database somewhere.

Job Search social media networking, also, tends to be promising due to the concept of real time web search. Nowadays, a tweet job search via twitter will reveal what's going in the job networking world for a given skill set right now...as opposed to a job posting that's 10 or 15 days old. The same concept applies to LinkedIn and Facebook, job seekers can connect with employers real time with respect to current job openings or upcoming employment opportunities. A huge plus for employers is that even if a job seeker prospect doesn't appear to be a good fit, the employer can ask for a referral from the declining job seeker which most job seekers will happily provide. On top of that, most of time employers can obtain a referral simply for the asking, without traditional big ticket referral fees. So while there may only be a few job openings at the moment, the social media showdown between Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook heats up as the New Year approaches. You can expect the intensity to pick up as we cross over into the New Year which some seem to think will be a rather busy time for hiring. While the verdict is still out on how much hiring will happen, it's no secret more and more jobs will be networked through social media.