Tag: Social Recruiting

Five of the biggest mistakes made when using social media for recruitment

This is a guest blog by Tony Restell. He is the founder of Social-hire.com, a social media agency that helps candidates and recruiters leverage social media to reach out and recruit top talent. 

Using social media for business and, more specifically, recruitment, is not new. In fact, the recruitment industry was one of the first to really grasp the power of social media for achieving business goals, knowing that the likes of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and beyond is where their target market of jobseekers hang out. 

More information: https://www.zoho.com/recruit/blog/five-of-the-biggest-mistakes-made-when-using-social-media-for-recruitment.html

William Almonte – Online Recruitment Solution The Smartest Solution

There are a number of things that got new updats nowadays. All the updated that are getting launched day by day are helping to make a better and faster world. The launch of online recruitment  is one of the great updates that has helped the recruitment world very much. Not only the recruitment world the launch of online recruitment method is a great solution for the economy and the employment of any country. According to Sir William Almonte, this is one of the best solution to make a modern world.

More information: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/william-almonte-online-recruitment-solution-the-smartest-solution

Social Media Fails Every Recruitment Agency Should Avoid

We all know how important social media is to recruitment nowadays, and you need to be using it right. One small slip-up can really kill off your recruitment brand’s credibility, but unfortunately there are a few common blunders that we still see recruiters making time and time again…

So what are these social media fails to avoid in recruitment? Read on to find out.

More information: https://blog.firefishsoftware.com/social-media-fails-every-recruitment-agency-should-avoid

Why Bigger is Not Always Better — Especially With LinkedIn Connections

Expanding your network on LinkedIn is easy; you just hit the blue “Connect” button and wait to see if the people are going to accept or not.

If they accept it, you will add new people into your network, and that’s it.

Yes, this is the easiest way to build a network on LinkedIn. You don’t need any special reason to add them, or even need to know them. If you want to connect someone, that blue “Connect” button is there for you.

More information: http://recruitingdaily.com/bigger-not-always-better-especially-linkedin-conections/

How to Win at Social Recruiting in the Middle East

One of LinkedIn’s Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies hails all the way in Dubai, a city that has seen tremendous growth in such a short period time and continues to make great strides in all aspects of modern life.

Situated along the coastline of the Persian Gulf, Dubai is widely recognized as a cultural melting pot with only 10% of the population being local ‘Dubaians’, and the other 90% hailing from all four corners of the globe. So as a recruiter, let’s just say life must be interesting!

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/middle-east-recruiting/

Why companies do not underestimate the strength of their employees’ social contacts?

Companies do not underestimate the strength of their employees’ social contacts. Just the opposite, they’ve begun to reward them if they help bring new and skilled help into the firm.

Every employee knows someone who knows someone else, and their neighbour has a guy who’d be perfect for a specialised position in your company. Maybe they aren’t actively looking for work, but your employee’s efforts open their eyes to a job opening and they get to thinking.

More information: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/why-companies-do-not-underestimate-the-strength-of-their

Social Media in Recruitment: Useful or a Giant Waste of Time?

It’s definitely a norm; using Twitter and LinkedIn to advertise and promote jobs, as well as using these platforms to connect and communicate with potential candidates. Using social media is seen as an essential component to any kind of recruiting strategy.

But how useful is it? We spend a lot of time on social media, but are we seeing the returns on investment we put into our social strategies? We have to ask our panel of industry experts how influential social hiring has been for them. Hint: it is VERY useful!

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/social-media-recruitment/

LinkedIn’s Top 3 Tips for Social Recruiting

Social recruiting and social engagement have become a must within any and every recruiting strategy, and this is especially true to LinkedIn when it comes to your business’s online presence.

LinkedIn latest results from the 2017 Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies find that UK recruiters lead the way when it comes to social recruiting, with five of the top ten global firms being British.

More information: https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/linkedin-social-recruiting/

LinkedIn Research Tells Us Exactly How Candidates Want to Be Recruited

LinkedIn is a significant social media presence that a lot of people (me included) use just about every single day. That makes LinkedIn pretty important.

But besides being a great place for working professionals to stay connected, it’s also got a lot of interesting information that is pretty important to know. Here’s a case in point: It can tell us precisely how candidates want to be recruited.

10 Ways Recruiters Can Attract More Candidates On Social Media

Over the course of the last month I have delivered a series of presentations to recruiters – both in-house and agency side. This is the first of the presentations  – How Recruiters Can Build Their Social Media Profiles To Attract More Candidates. I was asked to share my experiences of some of the things recruiters could do on social media that would benefit them in their social media candidate attraction.

More information: http://sironaconsulting.com/2016/03/10-ways-recruiters-can-attract-more-candidates-on-social-media/