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Creating a social recruiting strategy that gets results (without overthinking it)

Rally Recruitment Marketing

One of the most important aspects of any Recruitment Marketing strategy, no matter the channel, is content. At Rally, we often hear members of our community ask us, “What type of recruiting content should I publish to attract talent on social media?”

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Social Recruiting Best Practices

NPA Worldwide

Social media platforms can be a valuable tool in a recruiter’s toolbelt, if used wisely. Candidates regularly utilize use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, to find their future employers. Source: Aberdeen Group. Source: LinkedIn.

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Four Tips for Social Recruiting and Sourcing

Talemetry

Social recruiting, specifically sourcing from social media outlets, is getting tougher every year. LinkedIn has effectively locked their platform down to the point that it's easier to get a recruiter license than hack it with Google and a good command of Boolean search. And the price of recruiting licenses continues to climb. social media sourcing

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Headline Recruiting: Sourcing Passive Candidates from the News

Proactive Talent

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How to Use Facebook for Social Recruiting Messaging

Boolean Black Belt

When it comes to sourcing and recruiting, you should not ignore the potential of Facebook given that it has 1.38B monthly active users and 890M daily active users. Also, you should know that according to Jobvite’s 2014 Job Seeker Nation Report , 76% of social job seekers found their current position through Facebook. Jobvite also found that while job seekers flock to Facebook, recruiters prefer LinkedIn when searching for potential candidates.

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14 Tips on How to Use Twitter for Social Recruiting

Boolean Black Belt

Twitter’s been around for nearly 8 years and has always been popular in recruiting circles, but there are still plenty of recruiters who don’t use Twitter to its full potential or are simply new to using Twitter for recruiting. For example, just the other day I noticed in one of my Hootsuite streams a recruiter with 3 followers tweet about a job. 1 Why Twitter Can be an Effective Recruiting Channel. Super social?

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what is social recruiting, and how to do it #likeaboss?

RChilli

Recruitment has drastically changed in the past decade. Undoubtedly, social media has become an increasingly essential tool for sourcing and recruiting job candidates. Even this practice got its buzzword- "Social Recruiting.".

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Top 5 Social Recruiting Tools

Proactive Talent

Last week we showed our readers how to build a successful recruiting strategy , but with any good strategy you need the perfect set of tools in order to hit deliverables and obtain results. Social recruiting could be - and sometimes is - a job in and of itself because of its constant evolution. Recruiters understand the importance of leveraging social media but they’re also busy. It’s also a great social listening tool. Recruiting Optimization

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6 Metrics for Measuring Social Recruiting Wins

Dice

Although measuring rising followers and engagement scores is a first step when getting into social recruiting, a recent survey by Gallup found that these soft metrics can prove misleading. As your social recruiting programs mature, it’s important to dig a little deeper to see how your efforts are impacting your business goals. Sources of Influence. Recruiters have historically tracked source-of-hire to identity and focus on the most fruitful sources of talent.

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How to partner with marketing to meet your social recruiting goals

CareerArc

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: every talent acquisition team needs to be using social media for recruitment. But for many companies, the only way to meet their social recruitment goals is to partner with marketing.

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9 social recruiting tips to boost your 2022 recruiting

CareerArc

By now, you probably know that social media can and should play a vital part in your employee recruitment and retention strategies. And with the new year here, it’s time to explore some new ways to use social media for talent acquisition. Recruit through video campaigns.

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Top 6 healthcare recruiting results to expect from social recruiting

CareerArc

Healthcare recruiting is facing a set of unprecedented challenges right now. Social recruiting is a powerful way to rise above the competition, due to the fact that: The vast majority of today’s workforce use social media in their job search.

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Social Recruiting Tips with Tim Sackett

Jobvite

Tim Sackett is a speaker, author , and one of the most trusted, down-to-earth voices in the recruiting industry. Tim was one of the early voices to use social media in recruiting. How should recruiters use Twitter in their social recruiting 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? Of course, you’ll still find these kinds of images, however, Instagram can also be used as part of a wider social recruitment strategy to increase candidate and client reach and engagement, as well as being a useful sourcing tool if you know where to look! Marketing Social Recruitment

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5 recruitment marketing trends: 2022 Social Recruiting Benchmark Report

CareerArc

2021 shook up recruitment marketing. Between the Great Resignation , the changing economy, and all the Covid variants, reaching, attracting, and recruiting candidates has become harder than ever. Which begs the question: which recruiting trends are worth the investment?

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5 Key Metrics to Track for Social Recruiting Success

Proactive Talent

If you’re recruiting in 2017, there’s no doubt that social media is part of your plan. There’s really no way around it, whether you are actively sourcing and recruiting through unique social networks, or simply using an auto-share option to post job openings to more common social sites. Either way, nearly every company is using social recruiting in one way or another, and it’s going to become an even bigger focus with each passing year.

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Social Recruitment Is Losing Its Way

The Whiteboard

The talk from Jacqui Wall from Umbrella on building resilience in recruitment is certainly coming in handy with the somewhat fragile nature of me and my team this morning. It came from someone who, over the past few years, has built an increasingly public profile around various social media channels and recruitment marketing. He told me that Twitter was a waste of time for recruitment. Does social still work for you?

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Social recruiting strategies: 53 examples that win top talent

CareerArc

And if you’re among the 92% of companies that leverage social recruiting, then you’re also likely in search for the top social recruiting strategies that can help you cut through the noise on social media and reach top talent faster. Social recruiting, solved.

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Social Recruiting in 2019: Are You Ready? RallyFwd Sneak Peek

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Social Recruiting has been around for awhile now – but are you using your social channels as effectively as you could be? As social media platforms continue to evolve and candidate expectations shift, we need to optimize our approach to remain topical and attractive to talent. Cellular, will overview how to create a Social Recruiting strategy, produce great content and maximize your impact on social.

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What Has Become of Social Recruiting?

The Whiteboard

His exasperation with social media is something surfacing more and more in our own recruitment circles too. In-house recruiter Rachel Kemp has admitted to tuning out of LinkedIn , while HR dude Richard Westney has questioned the impact and cut-through of blogging now social media is seemingly reaching saturation point. But any recruiter worth their salt would still innately understand how to connect, engage, and maximise an opportunity from those situations.

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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. Back in the Day: The Original Social Sourcing. I had what’s normally known as a bucket req; I sourced for one profile, and one profile exclusively.

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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. Consider these statistics : 80% of employers say social recruiting helps them find passive candidates. Use social media to tell your brand’s story.

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Social Recruiting: You’re Doing It Wrong.

Recruiting Daily

Here’s the thing about being a recruiter. That’s why when I tell a story, I always feel like I have to point out that it’s true – as a recruiter, some things are just too weird to put out there without putting out a disclaimer. But I’m not going to lie to you – even though, I am a recruiter, as we’ve established. The Social Recruiting Saga: Our Tale Begins. This is a true story about social recruiting.

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How much is “social recruiting” really happening?

Recruiting Daily

The idea of ‘social recruiting’ — the concept whereby hiring managers, HR types, and others look at your social media profiles as a way to (a) find you or (b) move you along in a job search — has been in the business media for a while now. Blog Posts Featured News hiring LinkedIn Recruiting Social Media social recruiting Sourcing

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Four ways to use social recruiting in finance and insurance services to find that next great hire

Talemetry

An ongoing social sourcing and recruiting strategy will help find them and then entice them to join your team. social recruitingFor financial services companies, the ‘ Path to success involves finding those bright, innovative minds ’. But with unemployment rates in the 2% range, where are you going to find those creative, innovative, talented minds? They aren’t sitting home waiting for a call. The best quality candidates are already working.

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7 ways to tell it’s time to invest in a social recruitment platform

CareerArc

When it comes to automating vs. manually running your social recruiting strategy, there are pros and cons to both sides. There are many companies out there that control every aspect of their social media recruiting strategy in-house. Social recruiting works.

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What Are the Best Channels for Sourcing Candidates?

JazzHR

With unemployment at its lowest point in years, employers are being forced to get increasingly creative when it comes to finding and recruiting candidates. Fortunately, the digital age has provided no shortage of channels for sourcing candidates, which include a whole host of competing job sites, as well as an ever-expanding list of social media platforms. Professional networking and social media sites. The post What Are the Best Channels for Sourcing Candidates?

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Excellent New Twitter Talent Sourcing and Recruiting Tool

Boolean Black Belt

Do you leverage Twitter in your sourcing and recruiting efforts? If NO – I strongly recommend you read my 14 Tips on How to Use Twitter for Social Recruiting and see the two comments from Matt Chiasson. I received a notification from the Google+ Social Recruiting community last week that Hung Lee believes he found something that “ pretty much destroys FollowerWonk as a Twitter sourcing tool.

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Why Ignoring Social Recruiting Will Cost You Your Career

Social Talent

Recruiting is merging with marketing. It used to be that recruiters were merely CV shufflers, matching a resume to a job. Recruiting, as it stands today, is failing as fast as a confused, out of shape, ballerina on ice skates! Whose responsibility is this if not for the thousands of recruiters’ out there? So, imagine a world where job boards and agency recruiting are ineffective and inexistent… I firmly believe that day is close upon us.

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Getting Tech Managers More Involved in Sourcing

Dice

Studies show that having managers highly involved in the recruiting process has a critical impact on talent acquisition performance , including quality of hire and retention. The truth of the matter is that top prospects want to learn as much as they can about an opportunity, including who they’ll work for and what they’ll do, before they invest time filling out an application or taking a coding test, noted Scott Weiss, president of technology solutions and recruiting firm Makena Partners.

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7 Unconventional Social Recruiting Channels To Find Potential Job Applicants

RecruitLoop

More than 50% of initial recruitment screening is happening through unconventional social media channels. So how can recruiters get the best results? Employer branding Hiring Talent Online Marketer Recruitment Social Media Source

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

Social Talent

In the news this week: LinkedIn Reveal the “7 Deadly Sins of Recruiting” In a post on their Talent Blog site last week, LinkedIn Influencer, Paul Petrone, revealed the seven recruiter philosophies that “lead to a pattern of errors that will end in a ruined employer brand, a bunch of frustrated people and a company that’s devoid of top talent” 1. Twitter is announcing a straightforward way for advertisers (and recruiters my friends!)

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7 Social Recruitment Myths and Why They’re Not Actually True

Social Talent

Social recruitment first emerged around a decade ago and has been gaining quickly importance ever since. It is the intersection between social media and recruitment – allowing companies to utilize data, which potential employees share online. Moreover, companies often create their own social media profiles which are focused on recruitment. Almost all recruiters nowadays employ it, albeit to a different extent. General Recruitment Myths: 1.

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Social Recruiting Round-Up: October 2015

Social Talent

Welcome to the October edition of our Social Recruiting Round-Up – a selection of the best, most shared blogs, infographics, webinars and recruitment news stories from the Social Talent blog in the last month. So, enjoy it, share it and have a very Happy Friday recruiters, we’ll see you next week! Top Recruitment Blogs from October 2015: A Recruiter’s Guide to Building a Strong LinkedIn Network. The Most Hated Words Among Recruiters.

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Social Recruiting Round-Up – April 2015

Social Talent

No, not THAT “time of the month” sillies – it’s time for our monthly social recruiting round-up; a collection of the most popular blog posts, the most talked about infographics and the biggest recruitment and sourcing news stories of the last month. Enjoy and Happy Friday Recruiters!: Grid your loins recruiters! 5 Twitter Sins Recruiters Need to STOP Committing. 5 Incredible Recruiting Hacks to Boost Your Productivity STAT!

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Social Recruiting Round-Up: August 2015

Social Talent

Hello and welcome to the August edition of our Social Recruiting Round-Up – a selection of the best, most shared blogs, infographics, webinars and recruitment news stories from the Social Talent blog in the last month. So enjoy it, share it and have a very Happy Friday recruiters! Top Recruitment Blogs from August 2015: Top Misspellings in Current LinkedIn Job Titles. 10 of the Most Underrated Tools in Recruitment.

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9 Intriguing Social Recruiting News Stories – 6th July 2015

Social Talent

of the 330 job seekers and 40 recruiters who took the survey, said they had found their last job by “responding to an ad posted on a commercial job board”. also said they had found their last job after being “contacted by a recruiter who had seen their resume in a job board database” like Monster or Careerbuilder. Also not among the Top 5 sources in 2006, company career sites are today how 10% of the survey’s responding job seekers found their last job.

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4 Common Social Recruiting Challenges

ViziRecruiter

Recruiting through social media is a great way to showcase your job openings and boost organizational awareness. Sure, the traditional HR marketing team with a dedicated budget can pay to play in this space, but it’s the innovative HR marketing team that leverages a free, more authentic route by engaging their current employees to promote positions across their own social networks. HR Challenge #1: Our social media pages have low engagement and low reach.

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The Source of The Sourcerer? ??

The Whiteboard

I’ve never found misdirection conducive to a successful recruitment process but you’ve got to admire the ‘who is El Barto?’ Many new recruitment companies proudly proclaim “we do things a bit differently” only to end up in a conventional 360 dynamic. We all like a magic trick, don’t we?

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How Social Recruiting Helps Target Quality Talent

TalentHQ

Chances are that your company is turning to social media more and more to recruit the talent it needs. In 2013, according to recruiting professionals surveyed by Bullhorn, social media ranked third as the most successful source of qualified candidates behind existing candidates from applicant tracking systems and referrals from previous successful placements. Looking to launch a social recruiting program? Encourage Employees to Get Social.