36% of Recruiters will Spend Less on Job Boards in 2010

Jobvite recently released the results of their Social Recruiting Survey 2010 in which they surveyed over 600 human resource and recruiting professionals. Below are some of the highlights of the survey.

46% of respondents plan to spend more on social recruiting in 2010 than 2009
36% will spend less on job boards
38% will spend less on third party recruiters and search firms
92% of those hiring in 2010 currently use or plan to recruit via social networks
Of this group, 86% use LinkedIn, 60% use Facebook and 50% use Twitter for recruiting
For candidate quality, respondents rated social networks significantly higher than job boards who landed in last place, just above search engine optimization