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How To Source Candidates Using Google Plus and Twitter [Recording]

Sirona Consulting

Google+ and Twitter are still being under-used by recruiters and sourcers looking to identify and engage with new candidates. Yesterday I delivered a live webinar for Sourcecon (ERE), on the subject of using Google+ and Twitter to find candidates. Searching for people on Twitter. How to use Twitter lists.

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A Summary of 2014 and 8 Recruiting Predictions for 2015

Prominence

This means less of your target audience is seeing your posts and response rates to InMails will continue to get worse (particularly for agency recruiters). In 2014 recruiters have still been heavily reliant on LinkedIn but moving into 2015 the industry is going to be forced to look beyond this platform for sourcing. Graph What?

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6 Recruitment News Stories to Kick-Off 2016 – 4th January 2016

Social Talent

That’s because according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) recently released 8th annual report on the recruitment industry’s performance , we can see that total recruitment industry turnover increased by 9.7% in 2014/15 to reach £31.5 Twitter Hires New VP Of Diversity And Inclusion From Apple.

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5 Things Recruiters Need to STOP Doing in 2015

Social Talent

According to a survey of over half a million sales emails sent in Q1 2014, Yesware (an email productivity service) found that if an email is ever going to be opened by it’s intended recipient, 91% of the time it’s opened within 24 hours after it’s been sent. Procrastinating about Joining Twitter. Everyone who’s anyone is on Twitter.

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7 Brilliant Recruitment News Stories to Kick-Off Your Week – 30th November 2015

Social Talent

And if all that wasn’t enough, the makers of the Chrome extension are planning on introducing several new features in the coming weeks including a tool to analyse people’s Twitter feeds to show you engaged a candidate is in relation to their skills. Glassdoor’s 2015 Recruiting Metrics: Revealed. Fancy giving Context Scout a go?

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Jobvite’s New 2015 Recruiter Nation Survey Reveals Talent Crunch – 95% of Recruiters Anticipate Similar or Increased Competition for Skilled Workers in the Coming Year; 86% Expect to Expand Hiring

Jobvite

September 22, 2015 — Jobvite ( www.jobvite.com ), the comprehensive recruiting platform for emerging and enterprise companies, today announced the results of its eighth annual survey of recruiting professionals. A whopping 92 percent of recruiters utilize social media in either discovering or evaluating candidates.

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8 Intriguing Recruitment News Items this Week – 11th January 2016

Social Talent

Twitter May Increase Tweets To 10,000 Characters…. Yes, Twitter is currently mulling over a new option that would let you write up to 10,000 characters in your tweets. Yes, Twitter is currently mulling over a new option that would let you write up to 10,000 characters in your tweets. Download the full report here.

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