Hiring talent remains the number one concern of CEOs and of the entire executive suite. PwC’s 2017 CEO survey reports that executives see the unavailability of talent and skills as the biggest threats to the business. Companies spend tremendous sums on hiring: according to the estimates of the Society for Human Resource Management, it’s an average of $4,129 per job in the US. Also, most of the $20 billion that companies spend on human resources vendors goes to hiring.

You can see from this data how important it is for all hiring efforts to be successful. But the first question that arises is where to find all these qualified candidates?

Research shows that older methods of candidates search are becoming less and less effective, so recruiters need to find new effective ways to source. Today one of such methods, which is becoming more and more popular, is social media. So, we’ve decided to share with you some interesting statistics on which social media exactly is being used by recruiters today and what their preferred ways of contacting the candidates are.