LinkedIn or LinkedOut? How Social Networking Sites are Reshaping the Labor Market

Sharone, Ofer

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“…Much of the existing literature has emphasized the empowering potential of online labor market tools (Sharone, 2017). Certainly, the Internet has expanded the availability of information about job openings and job candidates.…”

Section: Internet Search and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recently, Sharone (2017) has argued that the spread of the Internet operates as a "doubleedged sword" for labor market participants. It offers benefits in the form of increased exposure for potential job candidates, but also makes it easier for employers to use digital signals to stratify segments of the workforce.…”

Section: Internet Search and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our account of labor market polarization builds on recent research which reveals: 1) how unemployed workers deal with stigma as part of the online job finding (Gershon, 2017;Sharone, 2017), 2) how résumé signals and interpersonal interviews are used to assess candidate fit in elite labor markets based on cultural similarity (Rivera, 2016;Coverdill and Finlay, 2017), and 3) how digital tools and cultural assumptions are used to categorize market actors (Kiviat, 2017;O'Neil, 2016). Collectively, these studies point to the bifurcated character of job matching in the new economy.…”

Section: Internet Search and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Optimistic projections about the capacity for the Internet to empower the workforce through expanded access to opportunities (Feldman & Klaas, 2002;Freeman, 2002) have given way to concerns about the uneven benefits associated with digital connectivity (Autor, 2001). Online job finding seems likely to accelerate the formation of "winner-take-all" markets (Frank & Cook, 1996) that primarily benefit elite workers and generate greater competition for jobs among most other workers (Autor, 2001;Sharone, 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our research is an attempt to clarify how digital technologies have transformed labor market institutions. Whereas recent research has examined how job seekers understand and experience the online labor market (Gershon, 2017;Sharone, 2017), we focus on the demand side of the market. How do organizational actors understand and use online technologies for filling job openings?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Black Holes and Purple Squirrels: A Tale of Two Online Labor Markets

McDonald¹,

Damarin²,

Lawhorne³

et al. 2019

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The Internet and social media have fundamentally transformed the ways in which individuals find jobs. Relatively little is known about how demand-side market actors use online information and the implications for social stratification and mobility. This study provides an in-depth exploration of the online recruitment strategies pursued by human resource (HR) professionals. Qualitative interviews with 61 HR recruiters in two southern US metro areas reveal two distinct patterns in how they use Internet resources to fill jobs. For low and general skill work, they post advertisements to online job boards (e.g., Monster, CareerBuilder) with massive audiences of job seekers. By contrast, for high-skill or supervisory positions, they use LinkedIn to target passive candidates – employed individuals who are not looking for work but might be willing to change jobs. Although there are some intermediate practices, the overall picture is one of an increasingly bifurcated “winner-take-all” labor market in which recruiters focus their efforts on poaching specialized superstar talent (“purple squirrels”) from the ranks of the currently employed, while active job seekers are relegated to the hyper-competitive and impersonal “black hole” of the online job boards.

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Section: Internet Search and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Internet Search and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Internet Search and Recruitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Damarin²,

Lawhorne³

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Digital Networking and the Case of Youth Unemployment in South Africa

Shaw

Wheeler

2022

Introduction to Development Engineering

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South Africa has one of the highest rates of youth unemployment and under-employment around the world, despite having a relatively large formal sector. This is driven, in part, by frictions in labor markets, including lack of information about job applicants’ skills, limited access to job training, and employers’ reliance on referrals through professional networks for hiring. This case study explores whether the online platform LinkedIn can be used to improve the employment outcomes of disadvantaged youth in South Africa. Researchers worked with an NGO, the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, to develop a training for young workseekers in the use of LinkedIn for job search, applications, and networking for referrals. This intervention was randomized across 30 cohorts of youth, with more than 1600 students enrolled in the study. The research team worked with LinkedIn engineers to access data generated by the platform. The evaluation finds that participants exposed to the LinkedIn training (the “treated” participants) were 10% more likely than the control group to find immediate employment, an effect that persisted for at least a year after job readiness training.

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Eroding Boundaries and Creeping Control: “Digital Regulation” as New Normal Work

Ollier‐Malaterre

2023

Virtual Management and the New Normal

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LinkedIn or LinkedOut? How Social Networking Sites are Reshaping the Labor Market

Cited by 32 publications

References 35 publications

Black Holes and Purple Squirrels: A Tale of Two Online Labor Markets

Black Holes and Purple Squirrels: A Tale of Two Online Labor Markets

Digital Networking and the Case of Youth Unemployment in South Africa

Eroding Boundaries and Creeping Control: “Digital Regulation” as New Normal Work

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