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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?

The Corporate Recruiter Survey 2010: How effective is your direct resourcing?

Pretty much every employer wants to recruit people direct yet so many are failing to make any real impact instead forever fire fighting the deluge of urgent vacancies. So what's going wrong and what can you do to fix it? Take our 5 minute survey and in 4-6 weeks we'll share the overall results with you in a FREE report.

• Compare your activities against others by company size and industry sector.
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• Find out if technology is helping or hindering.
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ATS vendors - where next?

Following on from the Stepstone acquisition of Mr Ted what else may be on Mr Parkers shopping list? Is it just acquisition for growth or acquisition to expand the depth of their product offering. The likes of Amazon and Tesco have expanded way beyond their roots and Stepstone appear to be following suit. But the focus for most of the ATS vendors has been downstream of the application process into the talent management space whilst the likes of Success Factors are trying to push upstream. But I think their is a massive gap upstream for the ATS vendors.

Are you looking?

I am reading a great sales book at the, moment where the author demonstrates how around only 3% of people are actively buying at any time.

Yes, some may buy under certain circumstances, but only 3% are actively in the market right now. Some may be interested if there is a great offer. Or may be looking in 6 months. Some won't be looking right now under any circumstances. But, the key point is that if only 3% are actively buying right now, what is your strategy for survival? Cold call the 3% more often than your competition? Well, that's what most agencies do.

Create a recruiting culture right from the top

I have lots of people attend my workshops. Other people can make similar claims. But recruiters need to start at the top. Training you lot is all well and good but your boss, and their boss, and the one above them; they are better recruiters than you are. So we ALL need to be training them.

I'm glad to say in some organisations we are. We are getting the very Senior Management (C level) onto sites such as Linkedin. That great sales person would rather connect with your Sales Director than you. The senior Buyer wants to connect with your Buying Director. The potential Store Manager wants to connect with the Ops Director. You get the point. We ALL need to start at the top. Getting buy-in at the top will also get your own advanced training signed off a lot easier as well. Once results come in, the rest of your career will develop at the same rate.

Not convinced; I'll show you. Watch this space.

Convinced? Get in touch to find out more.

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!!

@andyheadworth response to planted wind up question at Social Recruiting Workshop #SRWS

As most of you that attended the the workshop know, the WIFI was pretty poor. On some occasions it worked, on others it didn't. For Andy Headworth his presentation was full of promise but let down by the WIFI. Nick Price of Working Films who is producing the video for the day asked Andy how he felt about me cutting his WIFI half way through his live presentation (which I didn't of course). This was his response. The delay is amusing while he thinks of a suitable answer.

Thanks Andy :) Oh, and the Matt Alder interview is even better!

Sodexo UK Careersite gets SEO and social media upgrade

The US recruitment team of Sodexo have been doing great things with social media but, we have just implemented our own version of Jobs2Web for Sodexo in the UK as well as some initial steps into social media for recruiting.

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?