Using Social Media for Recruiting Talent

Social media has a great impact on Recruitment Industry. Recruitment firms are using Social media to hire talented people around the world. They are also using Social Media for branding their organisation & for effective communication in front of prospective clients and suitable candidates.

Two widely used professional social media sites are Linkedin or Xing. They mainly create a network of talent pool. Social media recruiting or “social recruiting” involves leveraging a variety of social media tools to recruit talent. Job recruitment is all about networking and social media simply injects modern technological networks into the tried and tested formula.

Generally Job recruiters post the ad of various jobs in the social media portals by targeting the audience based on Job Location, Specific Skill Sets, Education, Job Exposure, Professional Career Growth Parameters etc.
Recruitment can be done by tapping the recruiter’s professional network. Clients, colleagues, industry figures, business owners and professional acquaintances help a lot to access the connections. Once a prospect is found, it is only a matter of evaluating the Candidate’s Profile for References, Affiliations, Achievements, and Integrity Assessment etc.

Though in India the percentage of Unemployment is very high, yet it’s still a big challenge to find a skilled professional with the right qualities, exposure and qualifications to fill a position within a Specific Budget & Joining Schedule. Very often, the process of Sourcing, Screening & Reviewing Resumes turns out to be a Waste of Time & also Interviewing Candidates. This attributes to one of the Reasons that more companies have started using Social Recruitment with Increased Frequency.

We are residing in a technology oriented world, so social Media Recruitment is substantially becoming more important. The use of social media websites with public profiles can be useful for communication between employers and prospective employees. Many employers are now looking at the public profiles of applicants before hiring them to get a better idea of their past experience and background.

Social media is one of the top tools to be used for job search and therefore a high number of candidates are / will be present on the networks. That is why it makes sense to optimise the brand’s use of social media, as it becomes bit easy for the candidates to get an idea of what the organisation is all about.

Off late, scores of organizations are using social media to on board suitable professionals. In this aspect, a survey has been done by a company named Universum. Being a global leader in Employer branding, they work with top organizations and advise how to attract and retain the best talent. According to their survey report, Companies will increase their spending in the next five years, with 65% stating that they are likely to increase spending on social media in general and 63% increasing spending on social media advertising. Survey responses varied with industry and it was found that the management consulting industry will reportedly see the highest increase in spending in the coming years, with 84% saying spending will increase within the sector. On the other hand, 65% of those in Engineering and Manufacturing said spending is likely to increase.

Despite the high percentage of those identifying Social Media as the most important channel for employer branding and for recruitment, only half (52%) of the survey respondents said that they measure the effectiveness of their social media activity, though 69% do plan to do so in the next five years.

Marketing department is the leading face of any company. It helps in building up of the brand image of the organization. It helps to conduct the campaign management for marketing activities and create good contents for search engine optimization of the websites. It does marketing by using different social Media channels and hence become helpful in attracting the best talent.

One particular option that generally receives positive results is a ‘Social Media Center of Excellence’, which is a training and development program that educates recruitment & marketing teams on effective use of social media efficiently thereby aiding in dissemination of corporate brand message in the digital realm.

The tremendous growth of social media has significantly changed the way people communicate at home and at work. Social media applications include sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, Yelp, Flickr, Snapchat, Instagram, Second Life, WordPress and Zoom Info. These tools has not just changed our world, they are helping us a lot in business generation, internal and external communications, social collaboration, public relations and inter and intra company learning, apart from suitable mediums for spotting &recruitment of right talent

We as a recruitment firm we are using different Social Media tools to successfully reach out to quality candidates and our internal findings suggest that our social media outreach has added value to our clients in faster on boarding of trusted & quality candidates. To know more how we do it and how we can share our expertise with you, please be in touch with me at ceo@b3india.com

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Amitav