Social Media for Recruiting

As a recruiter you want to be where the most qualified, talented, and largest pool of applicants are. Human resources can leverage social media to tap in to potential recruits. This type of head hunting is called social recruiting. It's about engaging with users and using social media tools to source and recruit talent

LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter have over 800 million combined users. That equals a lot of potential talent for your company. But how do you find the right person for the job you have available using social media? Here's how to get started

LinkedIn

• http://www.linkedin.com/ • Post A Job• Post A Job on Company Profile• Share a Job Opening On Discussions• Post A Job on Group’s Job Board• Identify the resource & Intimate

PEOPLETOUCHER

• http://www.peopletoucher.com/search/ • Find the Job Candidate• Find the Decision Maker• Find by companies• Find by Titles• Find by keywords• Find by demography's

Facebook

• Post Job using Profile• Post Job on Page• Facebook – Work For Us app• Facebook – Marketplace

http://apps.facebook.com/marketplace/ • Share through Profile/Page• http://www.facebook.com/directory/

Twitter

• Use TwitJobSearch http://www.twitjobsearch.com/

• Use HashTags• Tweet/Retweet• http://twitter.com/attJOBS• http://twitter.com/jobsaustralia• http://twitter.com/socialmediajob

Classifieds

• Quikr http://www.quikr.com/ • Click India http://www.clickindia.com/• OLX http://www.olx.in/• Locanto http://www.locanto.com/• Craigslist http://bangalore.craigslist.co.in/• Adsglobe.com http://www.adsglobe.in/

Social media recruiting helps an employer get to know a potential job candidate. Is this a highly skilled, well-rounded individual that fits with your team? As with any job opening, using social media recruiting requires time and effort but it's an investment in longer-term benefits for your company. Using LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter takes recruiting back to its grass roots of networking but for a Digital Age

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