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How to Use Social Media As a Candidate Magnet

Organisations are increasingly using social media as a recruitment tool to help promote job vacancies, and it can be particularly effective at reaching up-and-coming talent. This isn't surprising when you consider that recent research showed that 86 per cent of people in the first 10 years of their career are likely to use social media in their job search.

As recruitment consultants, we've...

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How Employers Use Social Media to Screen Applicants

We all know recruiters use social media to screen candidates on a daily basis. But how are they doing this?

The good folks down at Reppler  recently conducted a survey of 300 professionals who are involved in the hiring process at their company to understand the use of social networks for screening job applicants. The results of this survey are shown in this infographic below.

Takeaways:

Whether...

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WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF RECRUITMENT AGENCIES?

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I've written a few blogs for the Undercover Recruiter on how companies can reduce their agency spend by focusing on direct hires . From speaking to other HR types and recruitment consultants that I work with, it's an increasing trend. Social media, especially LinkedIn , is making it easier than ever for organisations to source their own...

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Why Employee Referrals are the Best Source of Hire

Today, employee referrals are the most useful way of finding the best candidates for the job.

Here is how valuable a referral truly is, courtesy of Jobvite .

Takeaways:

The average employee will have 150 contacts on social media networks - 100 employees means around 15,000 contacts (and possible candidates).

Employee...

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10 Hot Job Titles that Didn’t Exist 10 years Ago

As we welcome in a new year, LinkedIn decided to take a look at the data from the profiles of their half a billion members, and see which jobs didn't exist in...

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Related topics : social media job titles / social media growth 2008 / social media specialist job profile / internal social media / social media specialists jobs