Students not comfortable with Facebooking firms
26 July 2012
In a recent survey of nearly 1,500 undergraduates through careers site targetjobs.co.uk, university students said they did not want to interact with employers on Facebook and certainly didn’t want to share with them the more personal details of their lives.
Thu, 26 Jul 2012
In a recent survey of nearly 1,500 undergraduates through careers site targetjobs.co.uk, university students said they did not want to interact with employers on Facebook and certainly didn’t want to share with them the more personal details of their lives.
This is against a background of huge Facebook use (only 5% of the respondents had never used it) and the increasing use of social media by employers to promote their brand and engage with their future employees.Respondents didn’t have a problem with employers using social media to attract their interest, particularly via Twitter and LinkedIn. However, when it comes to Facebook, only 5.7% completely embraced graduate employers using social media and would actively promote themselves on the employer’s channel.
In a recent survey of nearly 1,500 undergraduates through careers site targetjobs.co.uk, university students said they did not want to interact with employers on Facebook and certainly didn’t want to share with them the more personal details of their lives.
This is against a background of huge Facebook use (only 5% of the respondents had never used it) and the increasing use of social media by employers to promote their brand and engage with their future employees.Respondents didn’t have a problem with employers using social media to attract their interest, particularly via Twitter and LinkedIn. However, when it comes to Facebook, only 5.7% completely embraced graduate employers using social media and would actively promote themselves on the employer’s channel.
