How You’ll Find Your Next Job
By Liz Wolgemuth Posted: June 3, 2010
Most job seekers have the best shot at finding a job through their friends and contacts, given that nearly a third of external hires are found through referrals, despite the myriad ways for companies to find job candidates. That suggests that despite the millions of résumés fired throughout the Web during the past couple of years, job seekers’ time might have been better spent pinging their friends for opportunities where they work.
Online job search sites are fully aware of this conundrum—that job searching has largely shifted online, but hiring still relies on old-fashioned relationships—so they’re finding new ways to enable both methods.
You could find your next job through a long-lost high school friend with whom you reconnected on Facebook. At job search site SimplyHired.com, a partner of U.S. News, job seekers can log in to their Facebook accounts and allow Simply Hired to access work history details from friends’ profiles.
