A Study of Headhunter's Recruiting on Social Network Sites: Take LinkedIn as an Example

This paper will research the article be posted by headhunting consultant company on LinkedIn effective. This study focuses on the global Top 10 hunting consultant companies. This research follows those company's activities on LinkedIn in five months, during September 2016 to January 2017, collecting more than thousand messages and data which of including articles, posts, and member response, Like times, comments. And then entire collected data are classified into several main categories, analyzed by using social network analysis. Finally, this study could find out which articles would attract member interested effective.

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