How to Find Candidates’ Social Networks Simply By Using Their Profile Picture

Have you ever wondered what the easiest way is to find out the other social profiles for a specific candidate? Need to learn more about a candidate by reading their Twitter feed? Would you like to see where they check in on a regular basis via Foursquare?

There are plenty of plugins that can aggregate profiles for you, but we can go into that another time. For now, I would like to show you a quick and simple trick to search for people using their profile avatar (profile picture) using, probably the most powerful aggregator out there, Google! [Read more...]

Ben Carter

Ben Carter AKA @recruitmentgeek is a 9 year veteran at supporting recruitment companies to evolve and optimise recruitment systems to gain a higher ROI and staff sourcing efficiency. Currently Ben is the IT Manager at Global Resourcing in London. Follow him on Twitter: @recruitmentgeek

Filed Under: Google, LinkedIn, Recruitment, Social Recruiting, Twitter, Uncategorised Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,

Social Media Talent War: Who’s Winning? [INFOGRAPHIC]

The talent war on social media is fierce – but which network is winning? This infographic (from Recruit Loop) has all the answers.

Takeaways

  • Facebook has the biggest talent pool, with 1.06 billion active monthly users, whereas Twitter has 500 million and LinkedIn has 200 million.
  • 89% of recruiters have made a hire through LinkedIn.
  • Google is the most desirable company to work with in 2013, and has one of the biggest Twitter followings too.
  • Defence Jobs Australia is the YouTube company career channel with the most amount of views – over 5 million.
  • There are other tools available – such as Instagram, Pinterest and Google+ – each with millions of users. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.

Filed Under: Facebook, Infographic, LinkedIn, Recruitment, Social Media, Sourcing, Twitter Tagged With: , , , , , ,

LinkedIn and Personal Branding: What the Experts Say

We’ve all had the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” repeated to us constantly while we were growing up. But as much as we hate to admit it, we all make judgments about people we don’t know. They aren’t necessarily negative, but we still assume things based on a person’s appearance and demeanor.

As a professional striving to grow a business, the last thing you want is for people to make a mistaken assumption about who you are. LinkedIn is the one platform where your posts are meant for people to gather information about you professionally, such as what makes you the kind of person they would want to do business with. Perfecting your personal brand on LinkedIn can be simple, as long as you devote a few minutes to it from time to time. [Read more...]

Laurence Hebberd

Laurence Hebberd is Community Manager for Link Humans in London. He also runs the Link Humans Twitter feed - @LinkHumans.

Filed Under: Infographic, LinkedIn, Personal Branding Tagged With: , , ,

Social Media Etiquette: Everything I Know I Learned From Real Life!

With the wide adoption of social media over the last couple of years, the conversation has evolved away from “Why use social media?” to “How do you use social media?”.  A simple Google search for “social media etiquette” brings up 1,580,000 results. But do we really need all of those articles to tell us how to behave online?

Sites like LinkedIn have shifted us away from anonymous internet usage to an age of personal branding and online identity ownership. So, if our online profiles are to be taken as extensions of ourselves or at least representations of our best self, shouldn’t our actions online just be a reflection of what we are like offline?

If social media is just a new tool to achieve the same end goal – to communicate – shouldn’t the same etiquette for communicating in person or over the telephone apply? [Read more...]

Maebellyne Ventura

Maebellyne Ventura is a digital marketing professional within the recruitment industry. She is also one of the founders of Clever Biscuit, a young start-up creating simple and innovative products. Follow Maebellyne on Twitter @Maebellyne.

Filed Under: Etiquette, Experience, Life Skills, LinkedIn, Networking, Personal Branding, Professional, Psychology, Social Media Tagged With: , , , , , , , ,
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