Tag Archives: social media

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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Five Steps to Creating a Talent Community

With the development of social recruiting come increased points of engagement with your company’s talent community. This collective of potential candidates needs to be cultivated and maintained, and social media tools and activities make it easy to do so. Members …

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Recruit Right with a Goood Candidate Experience – Part 1 in Candidate Experience Series

An oft-discussed recruiting topic is the candidate experience. Maintaining an excellent relationship throughout the recruiting process, from the candidate’s initial exposure to the company and jobs through the final interview, is a crucial element of attracting – and hiring – …

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Connect to Top Talent with Facebook Advertising

Here’s a heads up: pay-per-click advertising (a.k.a PPC ads) is not just for your organization’s marketing department – you can use it in your daily sourcing regimen, as well. Just like marketers use PPC ads to target a specific customer …

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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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Creating Employment Buzz

After you’ve identified your company’s Candidate Value Proposition (CVP), it’s important to take charge and implement your employer branding plan. A crucial branding element is generating employment buzz. This motivates your employees to share their enviable work experiences with their friends, …

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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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Social State of Mind with CareerXroads

CareerXroad’s 2012 Sources of Hire has hit the virtual shelves of our in-boxes and Twitter feeds, bringing fascinating findings about the current status of recruiting, and promising developments for the future. In January 2012, authors Gerry Crispin and Mark Mehler …

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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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