A research on the usage of social media tools in the process of recruitment and selection of human resources

Developing technology affects almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives. It is almost impossible that a shift this big can't have influence over organizations. Ever-evolving web sites and social media sites allow individuals to share information about themselves. By the increasing numbers of employment web sites, organizations can find their candidates' qualifications and competences. In order to organizations have a lasting place in the competition, it is an important factor that they find candidates who are suitable for the organizations' missions. For achieving this goal, it is easy and beneficiary to find candidates in the web sites' wide pool. Moreover, organizations' use social media as a reference source and by this way learning the candidates' working habits and their past experiences. Just as this study aims to investigate usage of social media in the organizations' hiring policies, it also aims to learn which application they use by analyzing the objectives and standards of the social media using organizations and moreover, it aims to determine the benefits and the opinions of the organizations that do not use social media.