Had an interesting chat with a recruitment agency earlier this week regarding their consultants and LinkedIn. Firstly hats off to them for pushing the use of LinkedIn as hard as they are, it’s a recruiters gold mine if you engage and use all aspects of the site/network, we receive a lead on average once a [...]
Over the weekend I finally went and saw Inception. Unless you have been living under a rock you know this movie has something to do with dreams, and stealing them. On the surface that is initially what it is about, however as the movie progresses the key plot is planting an idea in someone’s dream/subconscious [...]
The Future of Mobile Recruitment report is the result of a roundtable co-hosted by Jobsite and Allthetopbananas.com in London in May 2010 with some of the leading brands involved in mobile, including Google and Microsoft. You can download the report below, here though are some key findings: More people now access social networking sites via [...]
About eleven years ago Job Boards burst on to the scene to end the demise of print advertising. Whilst that has not entirely occurred, it certainly has made a massive dent in to the once prominent employment sections of the Saturday paper. But what of eleven years from now? Social Media, or Social Recruiting as [...]
Gaining valued Twitter followers and building your Twitter network is hard work and there is no exact science. I have listed below what I think are some straight forward things you can do to build a stronger relevant network on Twitter.
What other tips or advice have you got?
This episode Jared Woods give an in-depth insight in to his and SKM’s social media activities and strategy. Jared’s openness and insights in to the broader world of Social Media and its impact on recruitment strategies is a MUST WATCH!!. SKM have in place a highly successful social recruiting strategy driven by Jared and his team.
There are 3 parts to this Social Sofa Episode with Part 2 being 16 minutes and loaded with great insight in to SKM’s strategy, Employer Brand positioning and ROI measurements, it simply is a must watch.
Recently a question was asked on LinkedIn regarding best practices when it comes to building your LinkedIn and other online networks? Here it is here. A great question and one that many people fail to remember when going about their every day social media strategies. I jotted down a few points I thought were relevant below.
1. Quality relevant and diverse content
2. Engaging in conversation
3. Giving more then receiving
4. Consistency in your message
5. Accepting feedback
6. Trying something new and not being afraid of failure
7. Listening to your network/community
8. Integrate across sites where possible and your own company site
9. Highlighting success and failure and learning from both
10. Define your objective but be flexible
11. Get in and do it and have some fun with it.
Can you add anymore?
While flicking through tweets last night I cam across something that could my eye and had to investigate further. The tweet in mention was not so much the 140 characters but the username of the user, @ReplaceBrie . My first thought was, is Brie mad, she clearly wants to leave her job, and is letting the world know. I didn’t know who Brie was but felt compelled to dig deeper.
What I found was refreshing and a great use of Social Media and overall approach from the company she works for Adcorp, a recruitment advertising agency here in Australia. Brie tweeted nterested in replacing me? Here’s the details: http://bit.ly/bcGFOw And this is where she works http://twitpic.com/1n37p1
So after clicking through I was pleasantly surprised to be reading a job ad that was straight from Brie (I hope). Brie delves in to her personal life to start and her love of her job, and then outlines in great detail what the Adcorp and her now vacant position are all about. This is nothing new but it is the personal aspect that Brie has delivered that made it one of the better job ads I have read. And I’ve read a few, 5 years working at Seek will do that to you.
So not long ago I posed a question on LinkedIn asking what one word would you use to describe social media. The question was put to the Staffing and Recruiting section and I was quite surprised with the 81 results that I received. Not from the words that were mentioned, although some are very interesting, but from the sheer volume. Yes it’s a simple question to answer, but what it showed me that the HR community is tuned in to the presence of Social Recruiting.
Aaron Dodd, Operations Director at the Mindset Group gives his insights to Social Media and its use in recruitment and how it adds value to his consulting company. Click here to watch!
Over night there were 2 fantastic Social Recruiting conferences on the other side of the globe that I was closely following via Twitter. #SMIR was held in London, organised by Mike Taylor. Mike has a big passion for Social Recruiting and I was lucky enough to be a Track Leader alongside him at #trulondon the first time around. The second conference was in the big old USA, #recruitcamp and although I didn’t follow this as closely there were some great tweets coming out of there too.
Ok, so we all know that I LOVE VIDEO for use across all recruitment functions and the added value that video brings to the table. I’ve written about this in the past see here and hope that one day video will be more common practice then the scarcity it is now.
There are however exceptions to the rule and OH MY GOD, this is one of them.
TweetJobs.net is a brand new service out of the UK, that allows jobs to be more then just tweeted. TweetJobs.net allows advertisers to streamline their Twitter job posting requirements by using the easy to use Tweetjobs system. Tweetjobs will take your job posting, extract the most relevant data ensuring that it is most relevant to a targeted candidate, optimise it for SEO and searchability for Google, plus many other search engines, and distribute your job across Twitter into specific, customised channels for candidates to follow and ease of use for you.
Ok so today I have decided to do my first video blog on the back of Bill Boormans Radio show earlier this week on blogging, which of course I was on again. I have combined my love of the Iphone (hence some early shakiness) and video to explain 2 things that I found very interesting from a prospective new client meeting earlier today. Be kind this is my first video blog after all. For those of you who know me, will know that I LOVE TO TALK, you will be happy to know this is only 3 minutes long….trust me 10 minutes would have been a breeze.
