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55% -- recruiters finding best candidates via social platforms rate for recruiters (2025)
Over 55% of recruiters say they find the best candidates for a specific job via social platforms.
- Source states 'over 55%'
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55%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Social Hire
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Tier B
https://www.scribendi.net/blog/social-media/social-media-training-ai-brand-recommendations/ ↗
Source Article
Your Social Media Presence Is Training AI How to Recommend Your Company - Scribendi Digital Marketing
What You'll Learn
- How AI tools analyze your social media to understand your brand identity
- Why company culture content matters as much as expertise for AI visibility
- The connection between social presence and AI-generated recommendations
- How this affects both recruitment and client acquisiti…
Original Research
Social Hire
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Methodology
Social Hire data, cited by Scribendi Digital Marketing; source says 'over 55%'
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Segmentation
IndustryRecruitment
RoleRecruitment Specialist
Channelsocial
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recruiters: 55% recruiters finding best candidates via social platforms rate. Source: Social Hire (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/recruiters-best-candidates-social-platforms
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/recruiters-best-candidates-social-platforms" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>55%</strong> -- recruiters finding best candidates via social platforms rate for recruiters<br><small>Source: Social Hire (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/recruiters-best-candidates-social-platforms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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