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5 Social Recruiting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Glassdoor for Employers

Social media has had a massive impact on almost every aspect of business — and recruiting is no exception. 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.

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Guest Post: 5 Best Practices For Using Social Media For Recruitment

Ideal

Glassdoor reports 79% of job seekers use social media to research companies they’re interested in. If you’re considering the idea of using social media for recruitment, make sure you understand what applicants are looking for in an employer and abide by legal employment regulations first.

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5 tips to boost your 2022 seasonal hiring

CareerArc

Or, if you’re recruiting for travel, try incentivizing them with free tickets, or offering to pay (or offer loans for) flight school. After all, you’re recruiting to the travel obsessed. Which is something you can emphasize in your job description, social media posts , and so on. And that’s where we come in.

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Social Recruiting Strategy: from Good to Great

Beamery

Using social media improves the quality of candidates that land in your pipeline by 49%. It makes sense- candidates trust a human voice more than a corporate logo, and learn more about a company through social media than through careers pages and job descriptions. Is it inconsistent across all your social pages?

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The Problem with Recruitment and Social Media

Prominence

Defining Social Recruiting. Social Recruiting (Digital Recruiting, ERecruiting, Online Recruiting, Recruitment Marketing, Purple Squirrel Hunting et al.) There are three core elements that fall under the term social recruiting: Active Sourcing – finding and approaching candidates (or clients).

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How to Use Social Media to Source & Hire In-demand Candidates

MightyRecruiter

Hiring influencer Katrina Collier Spills her Social Recruiting Secrets in an Upcoming Webinar. Voted one of The 100 Most Influential People in HR & Recruiting on Twitter, Katrina Collier knows a thing or two about using social media to source and attract candidates. Tell us more about what you do.

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7 ways to reduce cost per hire & make every penny count

CareerArc

It’s true — employee advocacy and referral programs are a must-try strategy in any talent acquisition program and can be executed through a variety of affordable channels like email and social media. One of our favorite approaches is to use social media recruiting. Invest in social media recruiting.