Category: Social Media and Recruiting Tools
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Memoir: How Social Media Is Shaping Personal History
I have this cool app called Memoir – not sure if it’s on Android, because I value my phone data (albeit I am forced to use PRISM poster child AT&T for the service). It lets you see what you were doing one year ago, two, up until the dawn of time, or at least when…
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How To Get ROI From Social Recruiting and Social Media
I consult with recruiters in social media, social recruiting and recruitment technology. The number 1 question I get from directors and leaders of recruitment teams and third party agencies is often: “How do I get ROI from social media?” …and my answer is often, simply, “what “I” are you making?” Their answer is often zero…
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Recruiting Millennials With Social Media
The first thing you should know about recruiting Generation Y? According to pioneering generational researchers William Strauss and Neil Howe, workers born between 1982-2000 actually prefer to be called Millennials. That nuance illustrates the essential element to recruiting and attracting the best Millennial talent — effective communications that speak to and understand their language and values. Millennials…
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Solving Recruiting Challenges With Social Media Solutions That Work
Social recruiting may be the hottest new method of sourcing potential job candidates, but it won’t be effective without a deliberate social recruiting strategy. With so many social media tools in the recruiter’s toolbox, and new ones emerging almost every day, it can be easy to try everything in a haphazard way. It can be easy to…
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Keeping It Real: 5 Rules for Social Media Engagement
I’m often told, and I’m actually not entirely sure what this means, that I “keep it real.” While I think that phrase was fresh about the same time as the Prince of Bel Air, I also participated in a panel called “Keeping It Real in HR” at an annual SHRM Young Professionals national conference…
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How You Can Find Top Talent With Social Media Recruitment
To find top talent and the best fit for your company, you have to go where the best hang out. Your next great hire may be at a local job fair or on CareerBuilder.com, but social networks like Facebook and Instagram are where individuals digitally live, connect and stay informed. Ninety-two percent of companies recruit…
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How To Pack Your Pipeline: Sourcing & Social Media
I’ve spent the last six years recruiting with social media, and watched as platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook continue to experiment and evolve to the point where these emerging networks are not only a peripheral tool, but an essential part of any recruiter’s job. Social media not only represents a real replacement for expensive, often…
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Social Media Recruiting and Diversity
My very first business trip ever, I went to Atlanta for the National Black MBA Association annual event, thrilled by the prospect of a transcontinental flight crammed in coach, a non-nondescript high rise hotel room and a 40 dollar a day per diem – a pretty sweet deal, I thought, considering I was completely unqualified. It had…
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Back to the Basics: Social Recruiting Without Social Media
Let’s imagine, shall we, that there’s no LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or any number of other social technologies and channels upon which one can rely as a recruiter. Let’s take the old-fashioned print publications out of the mix since as we all know no one reads newspapers anymore. You can still access job boards and your own…
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Midmark Corporation Achieves Social Media Recruiting Success with myStaffingPro
Midmark Corporation Achieves Social Media Recruiting Success with myStaffingPro » (PRWEB) April 23, 2012 myStaffingPro has published a case study in cooperation with Midmark Corporation on their recruiting success with social media. The case study explores Midmark Corporation’s recruiting challenges and identifies how, with social media and the myStaffingPro applicant tracking system, they were able…