Do Job-Seekers Benefit from Contacts? A Within-Individual Test with Contemporaneous Searches

Obukhova, Elena; Lan, George

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1956628

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“…The different media and tools to identify employment opportunities are in competition to SNS. Individuals are using the tools from which they expect to get the valuables result (Obukhova & Lan 2012) (Suphan et al 2012) (Feuls et al 2014) (Krug & Rebien 2012). Those are important theoretical findings developed by the authors in the current paper and will be developed also in future.…”

Section: Social Networkmentioning

confidence: 75%

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The use of Social Network Sites for the Employment Seeking Process

Sander¹,

Teh²,

Sloka³

2015

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Social networks are becoming more and more important in employment seeking process. The importance of social networks in this respect has been researched also in academic research worldwide and discussed on scientific conferences. The aim of the paper is to analyse the experience of the use of social network sites (SNS) with empirical results of 28 interviews with employment seeking individuals to identify the behaviour of employment seeking individuals and to identify further information regarding the employment seeking process in SNSs. In addition is an objective of the paper to falsify the dimensions of Sander / Teh. That the framework of the dimensions can be used to investigate SNSs and to describe the social capital theory of SNSs (Sander & Teh 2014a). The importance of real social networks are presented in many papers but the perspective of the employment seeking individual in SNSs needs further and deeper research.

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Section: Social Networkmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…The importance of social networks for the identification of open positions and to get a new employment has been described in many articles (Granovetter 1995) (Leana & van Buren III 1999) (Obukhova & Lan 2012). The new circumstances are SNSs with new conditions for the society.…”

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confidence: 99%