Self-presentation and hiring recommendations in online communities: Lessons from LinkedIn

Abstract

a b s t r a c tThis study investigated how a job seeker self-presentation affects recruiter's hiring recommendations in an online communities and what categories of self-presentation contribute to fit perceptions for obtaining hiring recommendations. The study participants viewed potential candidates' LinkedIn profiles and responded to questions regarding the argument quality and source credibility of their self-presentations, fit perceptions, and hiring recommendations. The results show that recruiters make inferences about job seekers' person-job fit and person-organisation fit on the basis of argument quality in specific self-presentation categories, which in turn predict recruiters' intentions to recommend job seekers for hiring. Although certain specific categories of self-presentation offering source credibility have positive associations with person-person (P-P) fit perception, there is a non-significant relationship between perceived P-P fit and hiring recommendations.

Improve Your Social Network and Have the Advantage in the Employment Seeking Process

“…Social media, e.g., LinkedIn, is an important place to identify valuable individuals searching for job. A tool of social media support individuals in exchanging and sharing of information, and it serves for enlargement of social networks (chiang, Suen, 2015). Internal networks in companies are very important for career success.…”

Personal Branding: Una tendencia del marketing holístico como proceso formativo

“…Investigaciones previas señalan, que la marca personal se ha analizado desde distintas perspectivas: el impacto de la presentación personal en la búsqueda de pareja (Ellison, Steinfield, y Lampe, 2007;Ellison, Heino y Gibbs, 2006); la construcción de imagen en la búsqueda de empleo (Chiang y Suen, 2015;Labrecque et al, 2011); y de forma más reciente, la imagen y reputación personal como bases de la economía compartida (Pera et al, 2016).…”

“…La reputación de una persona no sólo se evalúa al momento de elegir un sitio para hospedarse o un auto para compartir, sino también al entablar relaciones sociales y afectivas; de tal forma que un individuo que busca nuevos amigos o una pareja, emplea las redes sociales y se inscribe en distintos foros donde crea un perfil y busca presentarse ante los demás como una persona atractiva e interesante; para ello utiliza distintas claves o símbolos que le permiten construir su identidad o marca digital (Ellison et al, 2006); o bien utiliza redes especializadas como Linkedin para publicar su currículum y presentarse como un buen candidato para determinado puesto laboral (Chiang y Suen, 2015).…”

The relationship between social media co-worker connections and work-related attitudes

“…Much of the existing research has focused on social media use from the organizational perspective such as how organizations can and do use social media for Human Resource functions such as recruitment (Carr & Walther, 2014;Chiang & Suen, 2015) selection (Davison, Maraist, & Bing, 2011;Kleumper, Rosen, & Mossholder, 2012;Van Iddekinge, Lanivich, Roth, & Junco, 2013), termination decisions , and in the development of internal social media sites within an organization (Kaupins & Park, 2011;Landers & Goldberg, 2014). Less research has looked at work-related social media from the individual side.…”