Is social media a waste of time in recruitment?

A recent report published by enterprise cloud recruitment software specialist, Eploy, has questioned the importance of social media in recruitment.

The report found that 78% of in-house recruitment teams currently use social media to source their candidates, compared to 94% of agencies. However both in-house teams and agencies alike are struggling to get quality candidates of sufficient volume through social media channels.

Overall, the report highlighted that 69% of in-house teams are measuring the effectiveness of social media compared to 64% of the agencies.

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