Social Media as Means of Employee Recruitment

This bachelor's thesis tackles the issue of utilizing social networks when recruiting new employees by HR workers and the use of social networks by students when pursuing new employment opportunities. The theoretical portion of the thesis contains a brief description of personnel management and social media. There one can find the description of social networks as a whole as well as descriptions of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The practical portion is dedicated towards an analysis of data gathered from questionnaires answered by HR workers and students. The goal of the paper is to evaluate HR workers' stance on social networks as a tool used for recruiting new employees and their experiences with this method of recruitment. It also assesses students' opinion on using social networks when pursuing job opportunities and their experiences when doing so. The practical portion contains a conclusion, which summarizes the whole thesis. The goal of this thesis is to find out whether employee recruitment via social networks can replace established methods of recruitment or whether it is merely a trend of today's society. According to the results of the surveys, this method is very preferred by students and HR workers alike. The expectation going towards the future is opposite, social networks as a tool used for employee recruitment will be used more and more