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With social media currently being used in employee recruitment and selection, organizations need to make sure they are looking at and engaging with the right social media sites. This issue is complicated by the fact that technology advances rapidly and the social media sites people use can change significantly over time. This chapter helps practitioners to deal with these issues by offering processes and criteria to be used to keep current on social media. It is discussed how organizations can keep current on social media sites used, existing practice, existing laws, and existing research related to social media use. Processes organizations can use to keep current and use appropriate social media data is discussed, as well as how organizations can create audits of social media use. The chapter concludes by highlighting developing technologies and other developments that could have significant impact on how social media is best used by organizations.
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Black, S.L., Washington, M.L., Schmidt, G.B. (2016). How to Stay Current in Social Media to Be Competitive in Recruitment and Selection. In: Landers, R., Schmidt, G. (eds) Social Media in Employee Selection and Recruitment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29989-1_10
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