Thank you, Randolph, for your interest in REINICIAL project, leaded by our entity FCPIT (Spain). A research about this issue (effective job finding by +45 jobseekers through social networks) was not part of the project, but for sure would be of interest. In our everyday work in outplacement, we do know successful stories of people directly finding or getting job offers through social networks; as Natassa states, this is more usual in some sectors than in other ones. However, it has to be considered that online social networking is part of the wider networking strategy of the job seeker –together with the in-person networking, on-line traditional communication, etc.- , and cannot be considered separately. For instance, you can met someone face to face in a professional Seminar, keep in contact through a LinkedIn group, see a job offer of their company in the paper newspaper, and send an e-mail to him or her applying for the job. If you got hired, it’s difficult to weight how important...