Recruiting with Social Media

This is not a hard sell environment for job opportunities – its farming not hunting –  it’s about you subtly making sure your employer brand is well represented throughout the talent community so if those candidates do decide to become active, they know how to find their way to you.

The CandE Awards – The Talent Board, a nonprofit research organization dedicated to improving the candidate experience, published the results of its first-ever CandE Awards survey and awards program.  It surveyed 11,000 candidates to provide new insights into the hiring process.  The program had a huge response in its first year, leading to a second year of evaluations due out soon.Go Virtual? Yes! And Create a More Authentic Candidate Experience This webinar hosted by Human Captial Institute in June drew a sizeable virtual crowd. There's still time to view this interactive discussion to learn how to use your organization's unique culture to create a compelling experience for the candidates you'd like to bring on board.  Hear about how Carlson Restaurants’ TGI Friday's does it.93% of candidates agree they have higher interest in a job opportunity as a result of their experience with Montage Interview. That’s one of the interesting findings in original candidate research - Video Interviewing Impacts Candidate Perception, published by Montage in August.  This report reveals that companies can enhance their candidate experience through the use of video interviewing.Candidate experience guides product development.  At Montage, our core philosophy and solution approach is to optimize the candidate experience. That commitment guided our innovation this year as we rolled out Montage Mobile, Montage Foyer and the Montage Learning Center. With each of these offerings we raise the bar on our capability to provide a client-branded, positive experience to candidates through video interviewing.  

Want to jump start your Google + Circles?  Here you go.  This site lets you search and add ready made circles. Enjoy. 

1.Move fast-users of Facebook pages expect to be responded to within 24 hours and Twitter users within 2 hours. In social media, it often pays more to be quick than 100% accurate.

2.Be accurate

3.Be flexible

4.Be transparent. Admit if you have made a mistake.

5.Be sincere

6.Be human.

7.Be focused

8.Follow-up

9.Add value

10.Take control

11.Avoid fights.

12.Don’t censor

Facebook nearby feature. Another reason to GeoTag Job Descriptions and Events.  As more candidates search for jobs on the go, it is important for recruiters to tag all posts and jobs.  If you are a recruiter is Austin, Tx but you are targeting candidates in Los Angeles, be sure and tag your jobs in L.A so it will be found by mobile devices  as "near by" on twitter and facebook.