Career Enlightenment recently released an infographic discussing how companies are using social media to find candidates and fill positions. The infographic, which is publicly available to view, offers hiring managers and CEOs insights into where companies, possibly our recruiting peers and/or corporate competition, are having success. Below is the entire infographic, but first, the implications of what stood out to me:
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
What the Recruiting Industry Should Learn From Steve Jobs
A company can be as great as its leader. Apple ended last quarter with 82% revenue increase, a 125% profit increase, and more money than the United States Government. The bottom-line is only a fraction of the story. Innovation, user-friendliness, good shit: these terms are synonymous with Apple products. The Steve Jobs user experience changed culture, making sure that everyone is an “i” and that everyone comes first. Now, Jobs has resigned as CEO. And tomorrow, the army Jobs equipped with white ear buds and fingers on flat screens will continue to grow. “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
Weekly Release: Improved Sourcing Strategy
Improving your sourcing strategy: On June 17, 2011 we announced performance-based job board suggestions, which was the identification of boards that attract the best candidates for your job opening. This week we extended this functionality to show you 10 relevant boards instead of 5. We have also fine-tuned our algorithm and are now ordering the boards such that you see the top performing board at the top of the list. You can also influence the suggestions by editing the criteria that governs the suggestions – industry, function and experience level. Simply click on the edit link and update them to find the best job boards for you.
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How to Recruit on Twitter with Hashtags
Twitter is a real-time and fast moving social networking and micro-blogging platform that lends itself easily to search. In fact, this platform is the third most popular search engine following Google and YouTube. Twitter users post status updates in 140 characters more than 200 million per day according to Twitter.com. The site which boasts 175 million users is much smaller than Facebook, which experts believe will surpass the 1 billion user mark in 2011. While Twitter offers a platform that allows for many types of search to increase the viral spread of content, even by non-members, hash tags in particular are one of the best sources to find engaged users by particular topic or interest.
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5 Ways to Let a Job Seeker Down Gently
One of the biggest complaints and frustrations from job seekers who apply for a position, is that they often never hear back from the company in regards to their application status. This lack of communication causes job seekers a great deal of anxiety at a time when they are often very vulnerable especially if they have been displaced or unemployed for an extended period of time.
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Weekly release: Invite your hiring team, unpost jobs (contd.)
Inviting hiring team just got easier: At SmartRecruiters we believe that hiring should be social; after all, hiring for the team requires the input of the team. To ensure this, we let you invite members of your hiring team. We also provide three different levels of access – Standard, Extended and Admin – which determines the jobs and applicants that the team members can access. We have now made granting this control to each team member easier by detailing out exactly what each these levels includes. You can view this information from within the invite workflow itself, making it simple to decide what level of control you want to grant to the team member you are about to invite into the system. Simply hover your mouse pointer over the help icon alongside the user role dropdown and get more information about the user roles.
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Please No ‘mium in Free
A freemium product only temporarily drives down cost to consumers and businesses; whereas, a Free product can change the longterm pricing structure of an entire industry by increasing the purchasing power of both consumers and businesses.
A freemium is “a business model where you give away a core product for free and then generate revenue by selling premium products to a small percentage of free users” (The Freemium Blog). A Free product means that the entire product comes at zero monetary cost to the consumer.
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Weekly Release: Perfecting job posting, Simply Hired and Bright.com Integration
At SmartRecruiters we are continuously working on improving your job posting experience; it is the most important task our users do in SmartRecruiters. This week we focused on recruiting service add-ons and managing job ad versions so that you can re-post jobs with minimal friction.
Direct Integration with Simply Hired and Bright.com: We are happy to announce that we are fully integrated with Simply Hired, a free job search engine, and Bright.com, a free job board. With these additions, you can post your jobs to as many as six free job ad aggregators, in one click.
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ERecruiting: Recruiting on Google+ (Google Plus)
Google+, Google’s social media platform is the fastest growing social network in the history of well, social networks. Since Google released it in beta July 26th, the new social media platform created a media frenzy as bloggers, social media influencers and the media covered the release of the platform like never before. Google+ has quickly accumulated an estimated 25 million users. It provides recruiters and hiring managers another wide channel to recruit, source, and search.
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Weekly Release: Apply with LinkedIn, better source tracking and more
Apply with LinkedIn: A key to finding great candidates is making your application process as frictionless as possible. In general, applicants do not like to fill-in multi-page and time-consuming application forms. The confirmation of this trend can be seen in the rapid growth of Facebook and LinkedIn.