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Social Media and Job Hunting – 3 Tips for Success

ExactHire Recruiting

It’s important to be judicious in how you use social platforms, while also understanding how potential employers may use them to recruit or screen applicants. This is essential to improving–not hurting–your odds of getting the job with the help of social media.

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5 Tried-and-True Methods for Sourcing Passive Candidates

Glassdoor for Employers

In fact, oversaturation on LinkedIn is the main reason that 52 percent of hiring managers claim that passive candidate recruiting has become less effective — so it’s time to expand your social recruiting strategy. Related: 4 Keys to Building a Social Recruiting Strategy That *Actually* Gets Results ].

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10 Top Tips for Overseas Recruitment Brands Opening in New Zealand

The Whiteboard

. “Websites” are like brochures that sit in a special drawer called “cyberspace” Any ambitious recruitment company hoping to be successful needs a website. Kiwis like photos of graphs pointing upwards, diverse yet smiling management meetings, and a finger pressing an invisible screen like in Tron.

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9 Major Social Recruiting News Stories this Week – 27th July 2015

Social Talent

But, in an unannounced move last Monday, Twitter put paid to your ability to see the customised background you added in the design area of your settings on the home or notification screen pages, and replaced it with a plain white one. Daniel (@danielzsoldos) July 21, 2015. And event coverage will expand over time.

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8 creative recruitment strategies to attract and evaluate candidates

Workable

Here are some examples: CarGurus , a car research and shopping website, organizes in-house and external events to meet with potential candidates, including inviting them to attend sports games. Creative recruitment strategies to evaluate candidates. Test candidates’ skills on social media. Turn your job ads into hidden messages.

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The Games People Play

The Whiteboard

As an aside, Air New Zealand “gamified” there talent attraction and screening this week, with a perhaps overly-long online questionnaire to uncover “fit”. I suppose this is the equivalent of not hearing back from a recruitment agency? The best “trainers” bought a Range Rover Sport and a flat in Fulham. Good times.

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9 Need-to-Know Recruitment News Stories – 21st September 2015

Social Talent

Hired says it screens job candidates through a rigorous process combining algorithms and human curation, so employers don’t need to sift through a giant pile of résumés. Once all the videos come in, Lundkvist and von Matern screen them all to find the best 15 or so. Companies that have used Hired include Facebook, Twitch and Uber.