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87%
87% -- recruiter usage rate for LinkedIn (2024)
Some 87% of recruiters use LinkedIn to find and vet candidates.
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87%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
thesterlingchoice.com
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Tier C
https://thesterlingchoice.com/blog/7-ways-to-make-sure-your-linkedin-profile-is-helping-your-job-sea… ↗
Source Article
7 Ways to Make Sure LinkedIn Helps Your Job search | The Sterling Choice
July 3, 2024
Gareth Whyatt
Social media – we turn to it to feed our news cravings, wish people we barely speak to a happy birthday and post photos of drinks with friends and colleagues. It can’t just be us that’s noticed the boundaries between personal and professional platforms have blurred?
The se…
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thesterlingchoice.com
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Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 (current) | 87% | |
| 2026 | 95% | +9.2% |
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LinkedIn: 87% recruiter usage rate. Source: thesterlingchoice.com (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/recruiters-using-linkedin
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