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3 Questions To Ask Before Social Media Sourcing

Katrina Kibben

With all the platform options - how do recruiters know which tools are the best for social media sourcing? The post 3 Questions To Ask Before Social Media Sourcing appeared first on Katrina Kibben's Blog.

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Should You Screen Applicant Social Media Profiles?

Recruiting Daily

One of the best ways to do this is by screening applicants’ social media profiles before extending them an offer, but some question whether they should be doing it. The Pros of Screening Applicants on Social Media Below are the benefits of screening applicants on social media.

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Screening Candidates Through Social Media

Dice

At this point, social recruiting is firmly ensconced in the toolboxes of most recruiters. Although it’s not the be-all and end-all of their work, more and more recruiters find social media provides them with a universe of qualified candidates that’s both wide in numbers and deep in specific skills. But social media can be an important part of the hiring process, even after a candidate has made it past the résumé review, telephone screen or even the first interview.

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The Pitfalls of Social Media Screening as a Hiring Tool

Hundred5

71% of US hiring managers believe that social media screening is a good way to filter out quality candidates, and the practice is now commonplace. Many hiring teams will look at what candidates post on their social media accounts to get a more in-depth look.

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Passive Candidate Engagement––A Playbook: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Your Talent Pipeline Active and Flowing

Discover how you can successfully engage and hire passive candidates. Get the playbook on keeping your talent pipeline flowing in this eBook.

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Source Social Media Accounts In Just One Click

Recruiting Daily

Optimizing his workflow is Dean’s passion, and he wants to share a tidbit with you on how to source social media accounts faster. Social Friend Finder removes some of the annoyances of hunting down a particular person. Dean Da costa loves saving time at all costs.

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Social Media and Recruiting

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Do you use various social media sites during your recruiting process? For anyone not already doing so, you may be interested to know that there are quite a few ways social media sites can be used during the recruiting process.

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Is Social Media an Effective Healthcare Recruitment Tool?

Hospital Recruiting

If you’re not using social media to recruit, you’re behind the curve. Data shows social media is where candidates are spending their time, whether actively looking for a job , or passively seeing what’s new. Similar to massive job boards, social media has a wide reach.

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Solve These 7 Tough Social Media Ad Challenges

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Paid social media ads can be a great opportunity for recruitment marketers to increase employer brand awareness and build qualified talent pipelines. But we all know social media advertising can be super challenging!

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How Social Media Fits Into Recruitment Marketing

Valuehire

Ask around and see if you’re able to locate just one person who doesn’t have a single social media account. We’re willing to bet you will either find no one or the odd person who doesn’t require social media to forward his/her career. Here’s a challenge for you.

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Big Brother In The Office

Speaker: Jim Stroud, Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Expert

Companies have started adapting their hiring practices to better understand their candidates. We are now seeing advanced technologies that monitor the emotional fitness of their workers, AI scanning the faces of candidates to see if they are telling the truth, and even employees getting microchipped. Join recruiting expert Jim Stroud in this SHRM Approved webinar as he discusses how technology is affecting all aspects of the workplace.

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Social Media Recruiting Strategies

Crelate

Increasingly, on social media. How Is Social Media Used in Recruiting? According to The Muse , 92% of companies are using social media platforms to recruit. There are two very different ways to reach job candidates via social media.

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3 Ways to Supplement Recruitment Marketing With Social Media

Recruitics

In a recent post, we discussed why you should supplement recruitment marketing with social. While you can read that post in its entirety in the link above, the gist is this: Social media presents a powerful tool for recruiters, but it doesn’t necessarily deserve the lion’s share of your recruitment marketing budget. advertising jobs online ), as well as social media. This six degrees of candidate separation is embodied by social media.

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A Sourcer’s Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media

ERE SourceCon

Social recruiting in the past few years has become a force to be reckoned with. From the tools that help source and to the types of information that are collected social media has become an integral part of a recruiter’s life. Understanding the good, the bad, and the ugly of social recruitment helps explain the depths of a recruiter’s love/hate relationship with social media.

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Should You Check An Applicant’s Social Media Accounts?

Recruiting Daily Advisor

If you’re really looking for a 360-degree view of an applicant—their lifestyle, personality, skillset, and more—you may feel tempted to check an applicant’s social media accounts and digital footprint. Source: Guzaliia Filimonova / iStock / Getty Images.

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Hard to Hire: Third-Party Recruiting & the State of Talent Acquisition Report

in technology solutions, or social media. agencies sourcing talent on their behalf. 51% Social media platforms can be used for. AS SOURCE 49% SOCIAL. MEDIA 51% IMPROVE BRANDING. candidates as a sourcing. NETWORK71 % PAID SOCIAL MEDIA ADS.

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Solve These 7 Tough Social Media Ad Challenges

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Paid social media ads can be a great opportunity for recruitment marketers to increase employer brand awareness and build qualified talent pipelines. But we all know social media advertising can be super challenging!

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Why You Should Supplement Recruitment Marketing with Social Media

Recruitics

One such development in the space that has captivated recruiters is the use of social media in talent acquisition. When people think of social media as a recruitment tool, they immediately think of LinkedIn or Glassdoor. True, both are in the social media family and are primarily targeted at the jobs space; however, social media provides many more channels to recruiters than the two listed above.

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Employee Policies for Social Media

Recruiting Daily Advisor

The rapid emergence of social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and others means that virtually anyone can have a platform to share his or her views with the world in their rawest form. Source: CLS Digital Arts / shutterstock.

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Solve These 7 Tough Social Media Ad Challenges

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Paid social media ads can be a great opportunity for recruitment marketers to increase employer brand awareness and build qualified talent pipelines. But we all know social media advertising can be super challenging!

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How to Use Social Media as a Powerful Recruiting Tool

JazzHR

Social media has proven to be an effective tool for marketers and advertisers to reach consumers. The challenge is determining which social channels produce the most engagement and which tactics resonate best with relevant job seekers. Here are some ways to use social media to its fullest potential as you source candidates: Use live video to host Q&A sessions. Above all, social media sites are tools that help people build networks.

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35 need-to-know social media recruiting statistics in 2022

CareerArc

So you’ve heard about social recruiting , but you’re not convinced. With all the talent acquisition strategies out there, should you really be investing in recruiting on social media ? The ultimate list of social media recruiting statistics: Are candidates on social?

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5 Brilliant Reasons Why You Should Use Social Media for Recruitment

AkkenCloud

Social media has grown to an enormous extent. As such, there are many excellent reasons why you should use social media for recruitment, including: Specific targeting. Social media platforms’ analytics and data tools are extensive and allow for specific targeting.

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Does social media attract more qualified candidates? 5 companies speak

CareerArc

Here’s something we’ve talked about before: social media recruiting nets you more qualified candidates. Instead of telling you how social media helps you get more qualified candidates. Using social media to find highly qualified candidates.

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Search All Social Media Accounts at Once and Look Cool While Doing it

Recruiting Daily

Back to the future, we now have the technology to search ALL social media accounts in just one place. This is where the power of Social Searcher comes out to play. I have honestly not came across a more powerful social media search engine…and it’s free.

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Checklist: 29 proven ways social media boosts talent acquisition in 2022

CareerArc

Then, social media recruiting should definitely be on your list of talent acquisition strategies this year. But there’s so much you can do to reach candidates on social media, and some strategies and tactics have proven way more effective than others.

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Tips for Policing Employee Social Media as Elections Near

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Source: Guzaliia Filimonova / iStock / Getty Images. Generally, a private company can discipline an employee for a problematic social media post without issue because the First Amendment applies only to government action. Social Media Policy.

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Tips for Using Social Media in Recruiting

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Social media can be a simple and cost-effective way to connect with potential job candidates. Most employers today use social media in some capacity, but not all use it for recruiting. Source: Guzaliia Filimonova / iStock / Getty Images. Using Social Media in Recruiting: Do’s. Ensure that the employer’s social media profiles are kept current and complete and that they all reflect the organizational culture and vision.

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Unique Tools to Boost Your Social Media Sourcing

Pragna Technologies

We live in a connected world and with the advancement of technology in terms of social media it will more connected tomorrow. Social media is a valuable platform for any recruiter that acts as a wide source of information.

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5 ways to measure social media ROI as a recruiter

RecruitmentJuice

It’s all too easy to believe that the number of followers or ‘likes’ are an accurate barometer of how successful social media activity is. As employers and recruiters have come around to embracing the potential that social offers, so too comes an increased pressure to measure ROI. It stands to reason that if you are investing more and increasing your budget for social media, you are going to take more of an interest in what return you are getting.

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How Social Media Can Benefit Staffing and Recruiting

Automated Business Designs

Marketing is a great deal of fun with social media. But like everything else your social media strategy needs to be carefully planned. Social media is like a big dinner party – if you mess up, your future invitations will dwindle.

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All the social media recruitment questions you were too afraid to ask

CareerArc

If you’ve spent a little time on our site, you probably know that we’re CareerArc, and that we do social media recruitment. Introducing the answers to all the questions about social media recruitment you were too afraid to ask. So what is social media recruitment?

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Overcoming healthcare staffing shortages: 5 companies who find top talent on social media

CareerArc

And, if you’d like some inspiration as to how to do that, here are 5 examples of leading healthcare companies who use social media to successfully find the talent they’re looking for. Then they tried social recruiting through CareerArc, and things drastically changed.

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Recruiters and Their Social Media Fails

The Whiteboard

My recent social media fails. I’m not grumpy about being a year older (as Ricky Gervais said in The Office, “we’re both in our thirties”…well that’s me), but I refuse to respond to messages from people who have merely been prompted by a social media network that they should do something. Nice to know I haven’t actually become a total pariah of the #NZRec social media community.

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How to Use Social Media to Attract Top Talent

RecruitmentJuice

Social media is a fantastic way to connect with an audience, and that audience is likely full of candidates who would make great employees. Almost all professional recruiters network, so why not attract talent using social media. The Benefits of Social Media Recruiting. Social media networks are perfect for reaching candidates who aren’t actively looking for a job. With social media, candidates can have instant access.

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How to Make Social Media Work for Your Recruiting Process

ExactHire Recruiting

These days, social media is about the best way for job seekers to see what’s out there and for hiring managers to find job seekers. Leveraging the community that social media sites provide can be an extremely effective way to source talent. Everyday interaction on social media will be required to stay “current” as well. Don’t make your social media presence all about you. Write [on Social Media].

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5 Essential Tips for Mastering Candidate Sourcing on Social Media

Spark Hire

Over the past decade, social media has permeated all aspects of our lives. And as a staffing professional, you know that candidate sourcing is no different. Social media can be your most useful candidate sourcing tool if you understand how to use it effectively. Knowing how to optimally find, research, and engage with candidates on social media will make your job (and life) easier. It’s not easy to find passive candidates on social media.

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The pros and cons of automated social media recruiting

CareerArc

Curious about automated social media recruiting? See, it’s hard to overstate the advantages of social media recruiting. But as anyone who’s tried manually building a social recruiting presence knows, it’s also time consuming. Pro 6: A 24/7 social presence.

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Social Media Are Recruiters’ Strongest Allies When Attracting Top Talent

Recruiting Daily Advisor

Source: Chinnapong / shutterstock. If organizations want to attract top-level talent, social media should be their initial and primary destination. Here are three important ways social media could and should be leveraged to successfully navigate this new era of recruitment.

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5 stats that prove the importance of employee advocacy on social media

CareerArc

If you’re uncertain about the importance of employee advocacy on social media–in other words, turning your employees and recruiters into employee advocates and brand ambassadors on social media–you’ve come to the right place.