The internet has changed the job hunting and recruitment process drastically. Now job seekers are applying for jobs and connecting with employers over Social Media. If you haven’t been paying attention to social media, in particularly to LinkedIn, you have some catching up to do. You cannot afford to ignore LinkedIn today.
LinkedIn has become an increasingly popular way to network with people in the same industry. More and more employers are using LinkedIn as a recruitment and hiring tool and students and professionals are using it in their job searches. Treat it like more than a resume. Sure, they both convey your current and former professional roles. But your resume is a formal document used for the specific purpose of gaining the attention of a hiring authority and motivating them to call you to initiate an interview process. Your LinkedIn profile is social. It is for networking and interacting with a wide variety of people, not just hiring authorities. Consequently, it is an important part of the job hunt aside from a formal job request. It allows you to demonstrate what you really care about as a professional, and it can help you build relationships with people who are in a position to positively impact your job hunt.
Also the traditional way of a job interview has changed. Besides face-to-face interviews there are now also mobile interviews and video interviews.
Mobile interview
More than 70% of active job seekers use their mobile phones to look for jobs. Unfortunately, companies are struggling to keep up despite the enormous opportunity mobile provides: just 20% of companies have mobile-optimized career sites, and a mere three percent have a mobile app. It order to keep up with the changes companies need to use IT.
Video interview
A video interview uses online video technology to allow job seekers and hiring professionals to connect earlier in the hiring process. Video interviews take place remotely and use video technology as the communication medium. Since so much communication occurs at the nonverbal level, seeing and being seen is extremely important. And video interviews give people a better way to present themselves, both verbally and nonverbally. There are different kinds of video interviews: Live video interviews (synchronous) and one-way video interviews (asynchronous). Synchronous interviews are conducted live over the Internet. In contrast, an asynchronous video interview is pre-recorded by the job seeker and submitted to the employer.
