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The Importance of Social Media for Your Job Search [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Posted By Sherwen Mohan

Did you know that 73 percent of recruiters have hired a candidate through social media, and that 93 percent of hiring managers will review an applicant’s social media profile before taking the next step?

Which means it’s never been more important to have your social media house in order. This is where LinkedIn really matters – 79 percent of recruiters make hires through the business social network, compared to 26 percent for Facebook and just 14 percent for Twitter.

Social recruitment has benefits for companies, too – 33 percent have seen a decrease in time-to-hire, and 49 percent have seen an overall increase in candidate quality.

Check the visual below for a close look at the importance of social media for your job search, which comes courtesy of Career Glider.

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Phone Addicts Get Their Own Sidewalk Lane

There are any number of videos out there showing people so engaged in texting that they have failed to see the fountain or manhole or lamppost in their way as is demonstrated in the video below. This September 13, 2014 post by Mariella Moon for Engadget shows how one Chinese town has addressed the problem.

Posted by Ian Jukes

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Some places have lanes for bicycles, others for motorcycles, but there’s a place in mainland China that boasts a different type of lane altogether: one for phone addicts glued to their screens. According to a Chinese publication, the cellphone lane above was spotted along a place called Foreigner Street in Chongqing city, one of the five major cities in the country. The sidewalk was most likely painted on for everyone’s safety, because, hey, if there’s distracted driving, there’s also distracted walking, as perfectly demonstrated by the woman in this video. If the idea sounds familiar, it’s because the National Geographic did something similar back in July as an experiment. The society stenciled “NO CELLPHONES” on one-half of a DC sidewalk and “CELLPHONES: WALK IN THIS LANE AT YOUR OWN RISK” on the other half. The result? Well, among other things, they found that the people actually glued to their phones didn’t even notice the markings at all. Typical.

[Image credit: News.cn]