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Anti-Social Recruiting: Why Sourcing Best Practices Are BS

Recruiting Daily

My very first job title ever was as a “sourcing analyst,” which had the necessary gravitas at the time to make me not feel bad compared to my B-School buddies who selected, rather than scrounged, for their gigs. This role was, essentially, how sourcing is still largely defined: name generation and verification.

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UPS Delivers 55,982 Seasonal Hires With Social Media

Staffing Talk

As recently as 2005, the company says it was spending 90% of its recruitment advertising on traditional local media. By last year however, that shift to social media was almost complete with 97% of the recruiting spend, and only 3% on local media. Source: [link]. And the approach is working.

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Tweeting for Dummies: How to Use Social Media to Grow Your Business

Recruiting Blogs

Social media has truly changed the way people do business. Social media is so powerful because it's also opened a new way for people to establish brands and it's even allowed people to enjoy a new profession. Social media specialist, consultants, and managers wouldn't have jobs without this amazing portal.

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The Best Remote Jobs Companies Are Looking To Fill Right Now

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

The number of people who telecommute has grown by 159% since 2005, and that doesn’t account for self-employed people who work from home either full- or part-time. Now, customer service goes beyond just answering phones; companies are striving to meet their customers on every channel possible, including live chat, email, and social media.

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The 30 BEST HR Blogs: Enhance Your HR Know-How [2022]

Recruiting Blogs

Social media following. Since you're reading this, we want to thank you for supporting the SelectSoftware Reviews Blog , which in itself is a great source of HR and HR Tech news which we update all the time. Social Media Following: LinkedIn: 10.5K Social Media Following: LinkedIn: 40.5K Twitter: 1.0K

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17 Crucial Recruiting Statistics for 2016

Beamery

The issue is that only 33% of employers actually encourage employees to use social media to share news and information about their work or employer. 76% of people see companies that whose C-Suite execs and leadership team use social media to communicate their brand as more trustworthy. Source ). Source ).

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29 Best Books on Recruitment (MUST Read Resources for Recruiters)

Recruiting Blogs

The Robot-Proof Recruiter: A Survival Guide for Recruitment and Sourcing Professionals. The book urges readers to go beyond Linkedin and other social media in sourcing. Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy. Amazon rating: 4.1.

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