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Will Facebook Places screw social recruiting?

 

It seems everything social wants to add your location these days.Some people seem to be fine with this whereas others don't. But, I think it could have quite a significant impact on recruitment. Or will it?

Employer Brand + Facebook = Great Referral Model

I blogged about the concept of integrating a career site with a Facebook Page in February but this takes it a step further.

Facebook Pages: How to aggregate all of your social feeds direct to your wall

One of the joys of social media is being able to aggregate all of your feeds into one place and then share them via an RSS feed. So using the same process I have been trying to get the same information together then back out again to my Facebook Wall. Now this is a bit of a work in progress job but rather than try and get it perfect before sharing I thought I'd share what I have managed to do so far hoping that someone can come up with a better idea?

Social Recruiting Workshop - The Video! Turn up your speakers and enjoy :) #SRWS

Absolutely fantastic job from Nick Price of Working Films. More guru's than you can shake a stick at and all in one place at the same time!!

Facebook Instant Personalisation - The impact on recruitment

The idea of Instant Personalisation has brought the privacy mongers out in force as usual but for the average Facebook user is this bringing a Minority Report type World ever closer?  Not the "caught before you kill" scenario but the advertising etc tailored to you!! And in this in some people's minds is this a good thing?

Social Recruiting Workshop Update 4: The results are in! #SRWS

 

So having decided to pull together the social recruiting coalition last week, sponsored by Jobsite.co.uk and Mr Ted at the British Library did it feel like success or failure; good idea or bad idea; friends or enemies?

Facebook Open Graph: How could it affect your career site?

So what if you have a Like button on your career site?  Will it matter?  Does it mean you don't need a Facebook Page anymore?  Will it drive more traffic than Google?  It's too early to tell of course but you need to be aware of it.  But what's it all about?

Social Recruiting Workshop New Format - Registrations Open #SMIR

Following on from the Social Media in Recruitment Conference last week (#SMIR on Twitter) I am delighted to say that you can now register for this workshop as of today at www.hirestrategies.co.uk/newformat. 

This workshop is being sponsored by Jobsite.co.uk which helps keep the cost down hence the first one is going to be FREE!  Thinking of registering?  Read on.

Do you, will you, can you measure it to death?

Measure what?  How many people REALLY measure the results of what they do?

The lion rarely attacks an elephant as there are better, easier targets. The poor old zebra just hopes he is faster than his drinking buddy.  As does the antelope.  The vulture just hopes the lion kills something.  As does the hyena.  The lion hopes he will survive.  To survive he needs to kill something.  That damn vulture would be a good start but it never comes close.  The hyena is all skin and bone.  The waterhole is dry so no animals come by.  Other than those damn, big, tough skinned, aggressive elephants.  With the soft underbelly.  Maybe, just maybe.  Next year will be different; if he survives.  Life on the savannah is taken one day at a time.  Tomorrow is yet another struggle.

Facebook Pages - Fad or Future?

Who knows where Facebook Pages could end up but after my last post where I suggested greater integration with your ATS and maybe using a Page instead of a Career Site(!) could the humble FB Page play a bigger part than we think?