Looking for a job? Get busy on Twitter and LinkedIn but skip the job ads

If you want to understand why local newspapers are in so much trouble, one reason is answered by the chart above.

US recruitment consultancy Challenger, Gray and Christmas (great name) did a survey on the most effective way of getting a job among HR managers. Bottom came the old school methods of classified ads – classifieds having once been the lifeblood of regional papers – and turning up at a job fair.

Top? Old fashioned networking followed by the new kind of networking, having a social media presence. As I said in a previous post, a good online footprint makes a world of difference – and this comes as I’ve just made my first Twitter hire.

But job ads? We’ve used them but I have to think back several years to the last time we’ve actually hired someone from one.

Via Giga Om