One in three recruiters have rejected a candidate for their activities in social networks for reasons such as apology for violence

One in three recruiters have rejected a candidate for their activities in social networks for reasons such as apology for violence, contradictory data with the curriculum, errors of expression or grammatical or lack of communication skills.

This is extracted from the report presented on Wednesday on social networks and labor market, made by the employment portal Infoempleo and the human resources consultant Adecco.

Likewise, three out of four people, 78%, have used social networks to seek employment in 2016, although in the last year the rapid expansion of the use of these platforms to obtain employment has slowed down.

This study indicates that, despite the high level of penetration of social networks, its use in 2016 has experienced a slower growth rate, since the number of candidates who have used them has hardly increased compared to 2015.

However, 91% of jobseekers have an account in social networks, so Adecco's director of service and quality, Iria Vázquez-Palacios, has assured that "courtship between networks and companies is consolidated" .

"The responsibility of companies is to know the concerns of job seekers, and their search habits, because it is the only way to attract the best talent," added Vázquez-Palacios.

The report shows that there has also been a decline in the use of social networks to capture talent from companies, from 87% in 2015 to 84% in 2016, but despite this decline, in the last 86% of companies have claimed to have a presence on these platforms.

According to the CEO of Infoempleo, Jorge Guelbenzu, this large presence of companies in the networks has caused that "the door of access to any company is always open, so that people have more power than ever before on development Of his professional career ".

The main objectives that have been pursued by firms with this use have been 59% improve the quality of the curricula they receive, 53% diversify recruitment channels, 52% reduce recruitment times by 50% Receive more resumes and 31% decrease the budget for recruitment and selection.

The main professional objectives of the users are to send their curriculum (75%), establish and maintain a network of contacts (53%), know the latest developments in the professional field (48%), Investigate company profiles (27%) and create personal brand (22%).

As for the most used social networks in order to find a job offer is first Linkedin with 71%, followed by Facebook with 51%, Google + with 41% and Twitter with 33%.

The February light bill was 22% more expensive than last year, with a mean for the Small Consumer Voluntary Price (PVPC) of 76.10 euros, compared to 62.39 euros for the Same month of 2016, according to the data of the consumer association Facua.

According to this association, the year-on-year increase in the electricity bill continues to "skyrocket", after breaking all records in January at 87.81 euros, 29.4% higher than the 67.84 euros in January of the year past.

The kWh price this February was 15.55 cents (12.23 plus tax), after the previous month reached 18.75 cents (14.74 plus taxes).

In February 2016, kWh stood at 11.69 cents (9.19 plus taxes), so the year-on-year increase was 33%.

Facua has denounced in a statement the "complacent" attitude of the sector with Energy Minister Álvaro Nadal, in refusing to take measures that "protect the interests of users so as not to harm the electricity oligopoly, which last year increased by 9% its benefits".

The association calls for intervention in the sector so that it is the Executive that periodically fixes an affordable rate, since the system of pricing in the market encourages speculation

Facua is a sector in which "there has never been competition that was deceptively promised to consumers when liberalization began, so the only solution is to undertake measures similar to those adopted years ago in the EU with tariffs Of mobile roaming, so that the government fixes prices for electric consumers. "

In addition, it claims that the VAT applied to electricity should be lowered to the minimum rate allowed by European regulations.