Tag Archives: social media recruiting

GooodJob Guest Spot: Engaging Employees and Reaching Quality Candidate Referrals

We’re pleased to present our new guest post on Recruiter.com: Sourcing methods are changing. While they were traditionally aimed at acquiring active candidates, those seeking employment and a small representative of the overall candidate pool, social media networking, with its …

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Boost Your Employer Brand with Your Referral Program

Providing your employees with social tools to make job referrals can give your company’s employer brand an incredible boost. Your employees are your company’s best ambassadors, and when they share your job vacancies with their social networks, they not only …

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The Art of the Job Description

Amidst all the hubbub over targeting the best talent for your organization through social media recruiting, developing your career website and creating employee referral programs, recruiters can sometimes lose sight of a key component of the process – the job …

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Is Facebook Timeline Really Helping Your Recruitment Campaigns?

Ever since company pages were automatically updated to the Facebook Timeline layout on March 30, bloggers and industry leaders alike have been debating what these changes mean for companies’ Facebook recruitment campaigns. In the months since the changes were implemented, …

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Social Recruiting Messaging: Targeted vs. Broadcast

Social recruiting is here to stay, and the most effective way is via employees’ social media networks. To do so, the recruiting software industry has adapted two messaging methods – targeted and broadcast. Targeted messaging grants detailed access to employees’ …

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Employer Branding with Social Media

Employer branding is a major component of social recruiting strategy. Advances in social media technology make it easier than ever for corporate recruiters to network, directly represent your workplace to top talent and show off their employment clout. A regular …

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Recruiting: A Love Story

Whether you’ve been in the business for decades or are just starting out, you know that corporate recruiting is all about the Pursuit and Capture: attracting qualified candidates, and keeping and retaining the top match. Kinda like dating. Think about …

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What’s a Millennial – and how can I get one?

Today’s tech-savvy newbie labor force has developed work philosophies which differ from those of previous generations.  And with more than three-quarters of these Millenials (also known as Gen-Y) frequenting social media network sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, they are cultivating …

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Harness the Sourcing Power of Facebook

The debate over Facebook’s revolutionary role in online sourcing rages on.  Some recruiters, citing the site’s reputation as a purely social networking site, claim that its informal atmosphere seemingly precludes any serious professional networking (a niche filled by LinkedIn).  Simply …

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