Inc. magazine published a few statistics relating to trends
in employee hiring based on polling of employers. The upshot is that
personal networking through current employees has greatly supplanted
job websites and headhunters for finding quality employees. Here are
a few of the numbers from hiring companies:- 50% of have
abandoned job boards. - 98% use LinkedIn,
42% Twitter, 33% Facebook. - 7% of applicants
come from referrals but account for
40% of hires. - 47% 3-year retention of employee
referrals, but only 14% from job boards. -
$1,200 average referral bonus to employees
Posted May 2013
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