Q4. A. Do you think that the use of social media for recruitment is an effective
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Q4. A. Do you think that the use of social media for recruitment is an effective approach to recruit workers? Explain and elaborate your answer. B. As a manager looking to hire additional workers, what steps would you take to maximize the effectiveness of your recruitment efforts using social media? C. Using social media to recruit for job openings may disproportionately tap into younger applicants. Older workers could be unintentionally precluded from the applicant pool to the extent they are less present and active on social networking sites. Why would this be a problem? What would you recommend to eliminate or reduce this problem?Explanation / Answer
4A) Social Media for recruitment is not an effective approach to recruit workers, for the following reasons:
1) not everyone is on social media or uses it actively
2) People tend to project fake personas on social media
3) Social media majorly concerns the private life of individual and it doesn't reflect how one would perform in professional career
4) encroaching upon one's privacy via social media handles is unethical
5) Social media personas can be tampered, misrepresented and misused
6) For professions where appearance matters, people can post fake pictures or videos on social media with heavily altered apperance that can be mileading too
There are sine advantages of using social media for recruitment but we aren't ready to tackle all the disadvantages as yet.
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