Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Oana-Cătălina FRĂȚILĂ
Author-Email: fratila.catalina@animv.eu
Author-Workplace-Name: "Mihai Viteazul" National Intelligence Academy
Title: ACTIVITATEA SERVICIILOR ROMÂNEȘTI DE INFORMAȚII PE REȚELELE SOCIALE
Abstract:  pandemic, has led to an increase in the time and attention that people pay to them. 
Through this research we aim to analyze the impact of social networks on the recruitment 
process for intelligence services. The premise of this research is that social networks are a 
constant and unlimited way to get information about their users, and this information can 
help create user profiles.  
Our goal is to establish if social networks can be used in the human resources 
recruitment process. Social media facilitate the distribution of information to many people 
in a very short time, and this can be exploited by intelligence services, either to inform 
citizens about certain issues related to ensuring national security or to promote the 
institution or to streamline the recruitment process by attracting potential candidates 
and identifying suitable candidates, analyzing their work in the online environment. This 
is the relationship we have relied on in our research: the need for intelligence services to 
take full advantage of the opportunities offered by social media. 
The purpose of this research is to identify the human resources recruitment 
activity carried out by the Romanian intelligence services on social networks to establish 
the need to carry out a procedure for identifying candidates on social networks. To achieve 
the proposed goal, we used content analysis as a research method. The research only 
targeted public posts distributed by the Romanian intelligence services on social networks. 
Following the research, we concluded that the Romanian intelligence services pay 
attention to social networks and are officially present in the online environment, although 
they do not carry out an intense activity. Some of the posts distributed on these pages are 
aimed at recruiting human resources, which means that for Romanian intelligence 
services, users of social networks are a pool of human resources recruitment. 
Classification-JEL: D80, F50
Keywords: romanian intelligence services, social media, recruiting
Journal: Intelligence și Cultura de Securitate
Pages: 7-19
Volume: 1
Issue: 1
Year: 2022
File-URL: https://www.animv.ro/RePEc/mvn/incsec/ICS_1_2022_1_007-019.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:mvn:incsec:v:1:y:2022:i:1:p:7-19