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: , , , , , , , ,

How to Build an Active Candidate Sourcing Strategy [6 Key Tips]

When it comes to candidate sourcing, the conversation of passive vs active candidates feels like it’s been done to death. As Greg Savage pointed out in his blog post “There’s no such thing as a passive candidate”, there are no passive or active candidates…there are just candidates.  Most people, if offered a great job would be open to listening to what you have to say.

The question should really be; does your business have a passive or an active sourcing strategy?

Don Charlton, the CEO and Founder of The Resumator, outlined some great tips and tricks in a recent webinar about building active sourcing strategies.

How do you know if your sourcing strategy is passive?  Well ask yourself some of these question:

  • Do you post jobs as standard on job boards or LinkedIn and just wait for candidates to apply?
  • Are you or your recruiters spending their days trawling through hundreds of average CV’s with no time to actively source candidates and/or build talent pipelines and communities?
  • Do you tweet a job once and then if there’s no response, decide that it doesn’t really work?
  • Do the candidates in your recruitment database just sit there whilst more and more are added?

If you answered yes to most of these questions, then yes you have a passive sourcing strategy!

Being a passive organisation when it comes to sourcing great talent, is never going to provide you with the best outcome or hit the mark at hiring the best in the business.  You’ll always be hiring the best candidates out the talent that saw your ad but not the best talent in the market.

Here are 6 ways to ensure that your sourcing strategy is ACTIVE and that people… namely candidates, are talking about you, your business and your jobs! [Read more...]

Suzanne Chadwick

Suzanne is the Digital & Sourcing Innovation Manager for HudsonRPO, AsiaPac ~ Working with organisations to develop targeted sourcing, social recruiting & engagement strategies to meet business needs.

Filed Under: Employer Branding, Hiring, Recruitment, Social Media, Social Recruiting, Sourcing Tagged With: , , , , , , , , ,

Walk Like an Egyptian…Think Like a Candidate

I often blog tips for recruiters to help them with their option paralysis and here’s one tip I really think more recruiters should adopt: think like candidates… (walking into an interview like an Egyptian may just freak them out!)

If you’re a recruiter reading this blog, congratulations for taking the time out to do that.  But how do you find the time bearing in mind how many tools you have at your disposal, how many competitors you have (which include your clients, and even savvy candidates to get to the job before you do!), and you don’t have a time machine?

The amount of kit you have access to is possibly giving you “option paralysis” (I never get sick of using that in meetings!) The amount of online content has never been greater, and it’s growing, while you sleep, source, advertise and whilst you read this (really insightful!) blog.

Why should recruiters think like candidates? [Read more...]

Lisa Jones

Lisa Jones is a Director at Barclay Jones, a Consultancy working with agency recruiters, corporate recruiters and B2Bs advising them on the most effective use of technology, web and social media to improve their business processes, recruitment and bottom line. Follow Lisa on Twitter @LisaMariJones.

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How to Share Your Jobs on Social Media [Top Automation Tools]

For most recruiters these days, it’s important to maintain at least a LinkedIn or Twitter presence. However there is no doubt that managing multiple ACTIVE social media accounts is time consuming. Sharing open jobs across different sites with regular updates can often take so much time that there’s not enough opportunity to engage and talk to the people within your network, much less pick up the phone and call people.

Although you should never automate all of your social media activities, automating some aspects can help make your online efforts more efficient and effective in the long run.

The simplest way to automate your social profiles with your latest job posts is by using RSS feeds. RSS is simply a format for delivering regularly changing web content without asking users to visit the website regularly or signing up to a newsletter. Most websites will have an RSS feed functionality built-in. If you’re unsure, just look for the orange button with the radiating white lines. The functionality is not just for candidates who want to subscribe to the latest jobs from your company, but can also be used to supercharge your recruitment initiatives. [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: LinkedIn, Productivity, Social Media, Social Recruiting, Twitter, Uncategorised Tagged With: , , , , ,
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