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5 Social Recruiting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Glassdoor for Employers

Today’s candidates use social media to find their future employers, and as a result, recruiters have embraced platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook as valuable recruiting channels. Consider these statistics : 80% of employers say social recruiting helps them find passive candidates.

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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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How to Decide Your Social Media Channels for Recruiting

Rally Recruitment Marketing

With social media becoming a bigger and bigger part of Recruitment Marketing strategy, talent acquisition teams are devoting more time and resources into building a social recruiting presence to attract talent by showcasing their company culture and career opportunities. Social media is a long-term strategy.

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How to Use Instagram for Social Recruiting

FireFish Software

You no doubt have a social recruitment strategy that includes the likes of LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, but what about Instagram? Surely it’s just for sharing pictures of #brunchgoals or your morning #yoga poses right? June 2016 saw Instagram’s monthly active users increase to 500 million. So, where to start?

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Why Ignoring Social Recruiting Will Cost You Your Career

Social Talent

So what is social recruiting and how is it different? Social recruiting is no longer an optional part of a recruitment program, but putting together an effective strategy remains somewhat of a mystery. Social recruiting is a long play! And when I say social I don’t mean LinkedIn!

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3 Ways to Use TikTok to Boost Your Employer Brand

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Now that you know what TikTok is and why you should consider adding it to your social recruiting strategy, let’s review how you can use it. Since TikTok users are generally a bit younger than users on other social media platforms , this is a great channel to use to promote your internship and new grad opportunities.

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Top Sourcing Tools: The Ultimate Collection

Beamery

To support this growing need, we’ve seen a fantastic ecosystem of new tools and technologies evolve to make sourcing far more efficient (and far smarter). We’ve broken down 13 sourcing tools that every recruiter should consider, and collected a number of our favourite sourcing articles and resources from around the web.