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Source top talent from social media in no time

Talent sourcing has never been the same since social media came into existence. With social media taking center stage, especially in the last couple of years, it has drastically changed the way companies recruited and hired prospective candidates. Companies ranging from Fortune 500s to small startups are now using social media as one of their key recruiting strategies. Social media broke the shackles of traditional recruiting methods and it helps recruiters speed up their recruiting processes. Geographical boundaries have now been reduced to just a status update or a tweet. Employers, recruiters and prospective job candidates are now able to reach each other in a fraction of a second which was not the case in the past. Statistics reveal that the year 2011 has been a year of social media. More than 14 million people have used social media to find their last job and an increasingly large number of companies have started using social media to recruit and hire the top talent. Based