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Tworzenie talent pipeline z wykorzystaniem mediów społecznościowych w świetle wyników badań
Creating a talent pipeline with the use of social media in the light of the research results

Author(s): Michał Chmielecki, Łukasz Sułkowski
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: talent pipeline; social media; Facebook; LinkedIn; HRM; recruitment

Summary/Abstract: Not long time ago it seemed that the problem of social media mainly concerned entertainment and free time. It seemed that social media were the next, after message services, tool to communicate of first of all young people. Facebook, the most popular social network in the world, has over one billion three hundred million users, LinkedIn, a social network for professionals, 259 million users and among them there are more and more firms joining social media. Additionally there is also a growing number of recruiters, who use these tools. Some of the recruiters use them to build a talent pipeline. The aim of the paper is to present the use of social media by Polish recruiters as a new tool to build a talent pipeline. The article shows the results of empirical studies conducted on a sample of 117 Polish companies.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 349
  • Page Range: 74-89
  • Page Count: 16