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Nearly 28% of college Students plan to seek employment using Linkedin, up from 5% last
year, according to a survey out today from employee recognition provider I Love Rewards and
career-services network Experience. Slightly more than 7% plan to use Facebook, up from 5%.
No longer do students just wait for visiting campus recruiters to learn about job possibilities.
Instead they're using digital tools to find their dream jobs, says I Love Rewards CEO Razor
Suleman. Companies need to know their online image, then update anything that is outdated,
inaccurate or not interactive(互动的).
'The recruited have now become the recruiters," Suleman says. "They are now going out and
finding the companies they want to apply for."
Students learn about employers by viewing their websites, reading Facebook and Twitter
updates and perusing(精读)Linkedln profiles. Another information source: Comments by past
and current employees on job-oriented websites.
A strong digital presence is one way for employers to stand out as the search for the best
and brightest gets competitive.
Slightly more than four in 10 employers say they will use "different" recruiting tactics(策略)to
reach Generation Y, according to a survey by job-search site Monster.com to be released today.
Of those respondents, almost 60% say social-networking sites are popular tools to reach Gen Y
candidates.
"Our reason for using social media is because that's where we think the candidates are," he says.
The company posts updates and videos on topics such as job opportunities and the benefits
of being an employee. It also created a mobile-friendly site for those who want to apply via smart
phone.
"Younger people want to attach to you in a different way than the past," Lavery says. "They
want to interact with you. They want to learn about you."
The updated recruitment techniques take effort, but they work, he says.
In 2010, UPS used those tactics to recruit 955 employees. The year before, it hired 29
employees through those means.
"It's a time investment(投资)that you have to be willing to do," he says. "You can't just have
a page up there and not have content. In social media, you have to have a give and a take, or
people won't be a part of your community."
1.In order to find their dream jobs, more American graduates like to use ____.
A. newspapers
B. magazines
C. the Internet
D. radios
2.Why do many companies use social-networking sites to recruit graduates?
A. Because they have no other way to get in touch with graduates.
B. Because graduates tend to learn about employers through social media.
C. Because companies want to post advertisements for their products.
D. Because companies like to post videos and updates about their products.
3.The underlined word "recruit" in Paragraph 11 probably means ____.
A. fire
B. attract
C. contact
D. employ
4.From what Lavery says, we can conclude that ____.
A.it is very easy for a company to hire graduates through social media
B. a company has to make great efforts to find the best graduates
C. a company doesn't have to update the information about it
D. graduates are afraid to communicate with the boss of the company
