Future Trend in Recruitment and Selection In today's world social media techniques and related networking websites play a vital role in communication between people, organizations and their members. Social networking applications like Facebook and Skype help people and businesses communicate with each other for social purposes and as a hiring tool. Many young people in the current era are trying their best to build their online networking career healthy and available for all recruiters (Nigel Wright Recruitment, 2011). Furthermore, social networking websites for recruiters are a great mechanism to scan candidates in a very short time, however, it is not as stress-free as it seems. A well-known survey indicates that many HR superiors did not hire candidates due to an inadequate profile picture or a comment made on their Facebook page and rejected their application on the basis of their quite immoral lifestyle (Career Builder UK, 2010). Therefore, to eliminate this problem, LinkedIn now offers managers a paid solution that allows them to find the best available candidate who matches their criteria within seconds. Nearly 94% of recruiters feel comfortable using LinkedIn for hiring purposes (John Zappe, LinkedIn dominates social media sourcing and recruiting, 2013). Social media has completely changed the scope of employee recruitment; It is now much easier, faster and less expensive to hire employees and has saved millions for large companies, it is very significant that HR recruiters develop recruiting techniques in order to get the right talent into the organization (Smith and Rupp , 2004). . Furthermore, the publication of available job advertisements on social media rather than in newspapers has not only eliminated paper techniques in recruitment practices. Staff Review, [online] 35(3), pp.336-351. Available at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1550446 [Accessed 27 May. 2014].Study-aids.co.uk, (2004). MBA Human Resources Project e-Recruitment e-HR CIPD | Sample thesis | Thesis topics | Blogs. [online] Available at: http://www.study-aids.co.uk/dissertation-blog/index.php/human-resources-project-e-recruitment-e-hr/ [Accessed 20 May. 2014].Wright, N. (2011). Nigel Wright Group | Social media on recruitment and selection. [online] Nigelwright.com. Available at: http://www.nigelwright.com/ [Accessed 25 May. 2014].Zappe, J. (2014). Social Media Recruiting Pays Off for Crowe Horwath - ERE.net. [online] Ere.net. Available at: http://www.ere.net/2009/12/22/social-media-recruiting-paying-off-at-crowe-horwath/ [Accessed 23 May. 2014].
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