Why Social Networks for Recruiting?

If you are not taking advantage of social networks to add to your toolbox your organization is fighting an up-hill battle.  Looking at just the facts should convince you.

• 70% of companies are using social networks as a means to engage customers.  
• The average Facebook user has over 130 friends.  The average Twitter user has over 125 connections.  If you multiply that by the number of employees you have, think of the impact you can make.
• Referrals are the BEST hires you can make.  Don't even get me started there.

As technology continues to change you can't leave recruitment completely in the hands of the recruiters.  It just can't get done that way.  What's wrong with creating a Facebook fan page or starting a blog.  Your candidates will see that your organization's employees are intelligently engaged and that will improve your brand.

Social media is not going away.  New sites are hitting the web daily.  Did I mention it's FREE?

Who's looking for jobs?

A couple of newsletters prompted me to do some research and thus, write this blog post.  Do you ever check to see who is looking for jobs or what jobs people are looking for?  I did that today and I was very surprised by what I found.  Monster puts out a list every year about the top 50 job searches done that year.  I found several lists.

Jobs.com provides a list of the top 99 job searches.  This list provided me with information like sales, manager, part time, marketing, management, customer service, entry level, project manager, engineer and accounting are the top 10 job searches performed.  Sales doesn't surprise me. Neither does manager.  What I am surprises at is engineer and project manager.  Also on that list are many information technology type jobs.  

Do you know what types of jobs your jobseekers are looking for?  Does your job descriptions reflect "industry-relevant" keywords for your talent to find you.  The best way to ensure you have the best search engine optimization is to make sure your job postings have good strong keywords in them.  Teach your jobseekers to include a keyword rich resume or work descriptions.  

Now for the punch in the gut.  In the past 48 hours people searching for jobs ranked 215 out of 500.  Job search lost out to barbecuing, Facebook, hotels, Walmart & Michael Jackson.  Does this tell us that people are putting their job searches on hold for the summer?  Looks like it.

Jelly Beans- None Brown Please: Early Warning Signs of a Poor Candidate Experience

Jelly Beans- None Brown Please: Early Warning Signs of a Poor Candidate Experience

Cost Savings Structures in Healthcare Recruitment

Cost Savings Structures in Healthcare Recruitment

Today more than ever cost effective measures in Healthcare Recruitment are necessary to ensure profitability, enhance streamlined sourcing efforts, and to reduce if not eliminate agency spend. With the end of the current recession finally in sight, these cost savings structures will flow over to our profession for years to come. This allows us the fortunate opportunity to show to our companies that talent acquisition is not only an arm of human resources, but can show a direct impact on our balance sheets, therefore immediately impacting our bottom line and financial stability. A Recruiter must act as not only an agent of the company, but have an ownership mentality and entrepreneurial spirit.

Recruiting Lessons From the Olympics: Learning From Outside Your Box

Recruiting Lessons From the Olympics: Learning From Outside Your Box

You will never become a world-class recruiter if you restrict your learning to benchmarking against other similar corporate recruiting functions. Great recruiters can and do learn many things by studying completely different business functions like sales, marketing, branding, supply chain management, quality control, and customer relationship management. In addition, great recruiters proactively try to learn from non-business industries as well, including universities (top student and sports recruiting), political campaigns, and even cloudsourcing initiatives.

Welcome to Talent Management - Talent Management

Welcome to Talent Management - Talent Management

Ever wonder if your organization is making the best hiring decisions all of the time? Read this article published by Talent Management Magazine so you get three tips to making the right hire. I read these articles to better serve my customers. Why do you?

What Social Recruiting is NOT

What Social Recruiting is NOT

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Jobscience receives award from Salesforce.com

Jobscience was awarded "Best Recruiting App of 2009" based on Customer Satisfaction! The award is given by Salesforce.com, as Jobscience is available on their AppExchange. Thank you to all of the customers who made the honor possible! To learn more about TalentStaffing, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/JSstaffing