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"LinkedIn is fast replacing newspaper ads as a source of information about new jobs, according to a survey looking at millennials who are about to graduate from college.\nTwenty-eight percent of millennials plan to seek work through LinkedIn, according to a report by I Love Rewards and Experience Inc. The previous year, that number was 7%. The same proportion of respondents \u2014 28% \u2014 plan to find work via newspaper ads, but that figure was 34% last year.\nThe survey is based on a February poll of 8,088 respondents, 73% of whom will be graduating and looking for full-time employment in two years.\nThe chart below shows how respondents plan to apply to jobs. \n\n\n\n\nThe report also found that millenials about to hit the workforce don\u2019t care what size company they work for and that 64% of them plan to stay at their new job for two to five years. Another 24.1% say they plan to stay with their employer for more than 10 years. However, the average tenure for millennials is actually 1.5 years, according to the Department of Labor. \nTo Razor Suleman, CEO and founder of I Love Rewards, this discrepancy represents a huge opportunity for companies to try to make those new employees happy. \u201CYou leave 3.5 years on the table,\u201D he says, \u201Cand you spend the first six to 12 months just showing them the ropes.\u201D Suleman also suggests that companies put energy into improving their image among millenials so that they'll want to work there. \u201CThe hunted are now the hunters. The top engineers know where they want to work and they\u2019re finding you.\u201D\nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, annestahl"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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