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More jobs found through social networks?

More jobs found through social networks? More jobs found through social networks? -Social networking is playing an increasing role in helping people find jobs, with a projected 22 million Americans finding work in the past year through their Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter contacts, according to survey released Wednesday. That compares to the 14.4 million who found work through social networks in 2010, according to a survey commissioned by Jobvite Inc., a Burlingame social recruiting software maker. But Facebook – the largest social network by far – may be proving more important to finding a job than LinkedIn, which bills itself as the professional social network. One in six found work through social networking, but of those, 83 percent credited Facebook – generally regarded as a personal social networking site – for their success. That compared to 46 percent for LinkedIn and 36 percent for Twitter. However, 31 percent of job seekers said they used all three. The study showed a large num...