Social Media Recruiting

If you are a progressive organization you are reading this, because you have been given the taks to evaluate or implement a Social Media Strategy, Social Recrutiing, or Social Media Recruiting Sites.  Each week you are hearing about new ways to utilize Web 2.0 in your Interactive Recruiting Strategy.

The challenge is what is the best way to utilize these resources, manage these resources and utlitmately how can we use these sources to direct potential candidates to our career site.  Hopefully our tips or suggestions can help you with this challenge.

What are the goals of Social Media Recruting?

Since this technique is un-chartered waters for most, you need to have a strategy with a goal in mind. 

First you need to understand all those that will be impacted once you implement your strategy and then have a common objective for all to achieve with this plan.

Second there needs to be support of the engagement of people with all levels of the organization.

Third is the focus on marketing your organizations job opportunities and lastly using this plan to enhance and market your employment brand.

How to get your Social Media Strategy going?

You want to deliver a personalized experience that is true to your organization and interactive and informative all while be engaging and creating a call to action for a potential candidate to apply or communicate back to your career site.  Depending on the path you choose, it will require participation from your organization top to botttom, you can not just let one person from your recruiting team handle this responsiblity.  You want to have an employee approach that helps grow these online relationships.

A Social Media Strategy changes every day, let Self Opportunity help you get on the right track to support your efforts in this ever changing market.