Social Media and Referrals Are Best Sources for Talent

A new survey shows that companies are investing more and more of their recruitment resources in social media networks and seeing it pay off.

For a majority of recruiters, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and employee referrals have officially surpassed online job boards as the preferred way to acquire talent. In 2011, increasingly more companies boosted their recruiting efforts by investing in social media to reach job candidates, according to Jobvite, a recruiting platform for the social web.

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