Optimizing your profile in career networks: A study by FAU provides insight
Career networks like LinkedIn are not only platforms that let you keep in contact with your business network – but also are a great way to access new jobs. In a study on Social Recruiting and Active Sourcing conducted in cooperation with the University of Bamberg and Monster, we found that 1 in 7 positions within 1,000 of Germany´s largest companies is staffed using Active Sourcing. For positions within the IT-sector this number is even higher.
In a Deutschland-Funk interview with Monika Zehmisch, Professor Laumer talked about the importance and opportunities of career networks. You can listen to the interview here to find out how your presence on Xing, LinkedIn and other CV-database based platforms can be improved in order to be found more easily by recruiters. The interview was held in German.