Facebook Used More Than LinkedIn to Find Jobs

A new study of social networks and job opportunities suggests just how indebted we are to Mark Zuckerberg.

An American study by recruiting company JobVite has found that among job seekers, Facebook is still far more popular – and successful – at landing people jobs than LinkedIn. When recently employed people were asked which networks led to their current jobs, about 78 per cent mentioned Facebook, and only 40 per cent included LinkedIn, surpassed even by Twitter at 42 per cent. Despite the increasing use of social networks for job seeking, the survey also revealed that, at the end of the day, most jobs came from personal or professional contacts with less than a fifth of successes attributed to social networks.