Your Social Media Profile Says a Lot About Who You Are

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4 min readApr 3, 2018

Social profile of any person says a lot about them. The recruitment through social media has grown to 84% where organizations publish their ads directly. Social platforms give a lot of information about the preferences of a specific person.

Also, the hiring managers should not completely rely on the social platforms, but yes, it still has a 50% effectiveness in the hiring process. Below we have mentioned points of top hiring executives and find out what they are look for while selecting a candidate for a corporate role.

1 Talent spotters now regard potential as one of the key employee attributes for hiring. How do you spot potential and passion during a job interview?

When it comes to conducting a hiring process, recruiters have started focusing more on the potential of a candidate. Passion and Potential are two completely divergent traits of any person. Potential has become the priority in a recruiting process as it reflects the capability and strength to stand by the divergent working environment of any organization.

Therefore, question about-interests, real-life approaches, initiations related to it, etc. all types of proofs verifying these questions, allow the HR to assess the candidate.

2 What are some of the other essential attributes you look for in a job applicant?

Gone are the days when the job applicant was just a paid employee of any organization. The present scenario explains the need for any organizations as long-term associations. The core trait of any job applicant that is high in demand is the hunger for success.

This gives the clear picture of the enthusiasm and with a long-term commitment; the flexibility of working hours is given preference. Job portals like Worknrby help to hire managers to get an overview of the interests and abilities of a candidate.

3 What are some of the common issues, which you confront in graduates while hiring?

Being ambitious is something that attracts the recruiters towards any candidates. But over-ambition can at times lead in the wrong direction like, I am the best, I am too good for the organization, I can do anything, are certain scenarios of attitude portrayed by the graduates.

At times, even the lack of application knowledge also affects the hiring process. But, portals like Worknrby, can bridge this gap where they reflect a complete short picture of the candidate in form of the micro-CV. This portal even lets you hire a candidate from the same or neighbor location, which saves time and cost of recruiters.

4 How crucial is a candidate’s domain knowledge when it comes to hiring and what is your experience on this front from campuses?

Assessing candidates based on the domain knowledge can give both positive and negative results. It is not necessary that a candidate with good technical knowledge must be equally interested in the working conditions.

Such candidates can serve their best in solo performance rather than adjusting to teamwork. In addition, during campus drives filtering of applicants becomes easy, as not every scholar with a high percentage is good with the technical fronts.

5 What is the transitional change, which a candidate has to be prepared or when he/she enters the job market from the campus?

If we try to look at this scenario, then a candidate in college learning environment needs to come out of their cocoon. Thus, the job market needs the real work and challenges.

Therefore, a candidate needs to self-prepare themselves for all the hard and smart work along with the adaptiveness of the work culture and self-learning.

6 How can a candidate make himself/herself valuable in his line of work?

Having knowledge and implementation of its two different things. A candidate should know it better how to portray their work through resume and act. Therefore, job portal like is an aid to create an active profile showcasing your experiences and proofs of education.

Along with this, the recruiters expect you to have running knowledge about the execution of the task and flexibility of being a team worker.

7 How severe can be the cost of making mistakes on a professional level, as opposed to academics, where it can end with a little red circle?

Failure is a ladder to success. To fail and learn in a quick-flick grow the learning ability. But, at a professional level, repeating the same mistakes can turn out the non-learning ability of a person.

Therefore, experimenting in this new era of technology-dependent work is considered creative and opens the boundaries of dependency. Thus, the severity level can be different for each mistake, as those related to work are less expensive.

8 How should women strike a balance exploring different interests by focusing on career goals?

Rediscovering oneself with a balance maintained in life is very important. Thus, Women should maintain an equal level of weight towards their interest and career goals.

Prioritizing your tasks can add the balance and categorize the crucial and average tasks. Therefore, you can balance your career between the creative spirit and work-space yourself, leading to an upgrade in life.

Our article is also published on Mail Today Newspaper you can check there also.

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