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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?

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!!

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.

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?

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.

Why posting jobs to Twitter is no different to RSS

There are as ever many opinions about having automated job feeds on Twitter.  Matt Alder wrote a post last week Why Twitter is the future of job boards which generated a few different opinions on the matter.  Shall we just get our heads out of our backsides and let the Follower decide just like they do with RSS?

Social Recruiting ROI

I hate to use the term ROI as it is so over hyped for social media.  I attended a social media conference in Exeter recently that had some a great speakers and was very well organised but, when it came to the ROI bit I felt they were trying too hard to justify the use of social media.

Who's got a pretty Face(book Page) then?

Luckily not too many – yet! But the number is growing and here are a few to look at.

Ernst & Young – the one everyone talks about.

Hutchison 3G – early days yet.

Welcome Financial – good Twitter integration.

Bootsjobs – nice looking Page.

DLA Piper – really good and gives EY more than a run for their money; one of the best I've seen!

These are just a few of the companies (NOT EY) that have attended our workshops and then started to get more from Facebook. You can get a Page one up and running in a few hours (without any branding) or a little bit longer if you want to make a great landing page – it doesn’t need to cost that much either.

But, don’t just do it for the sake of it. Make sure it is part of your recruitment strategy otherwise you’ll look back and see it as a failure; and we don’t want that. If you're not sure where to start get onto our next Social Recruiting Workshop and follow their lead.

How job boards killed job ad creativity and how Twitter brings it back (maybe)

When I was a young recruiter we used the local press to attract staff using semi-display ads.  For those that have never heard of these, or have just forget, we paid by the line.  The more lines, the more cost and the less our bonus would be that month.