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Social Media's Influence on Talent Acquisition

by Heidi Green on 2014-07-10T17:01:00Z

Glassdoor recently reported that 96% of the online population belongs to at least one social network. Add that to the fact that 47% of today's workforce was born after 1980 (and by 2025, more than 75% of workers will be come from the "social media generation" having grown up with ...

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