If you had any doubt about sourcing or recruiting with Facebook, let it be erased: Facebook Ads now allow companies to target job titles—in addition to “expanded information” about work history and education. Using the Core Audiences feature, recruiters can now more specifically target members of the industry, users who...
Continue Reading2013 proved to be a great year for technology and business. But one of the key breakthroughs was the establishment and integration of social media into Marketing and HR departments worldwide. Social recruiting has taken the world of Human Resources by storm as a new strategy for engaging potential candidates....
Continue ReadingThis Q+A series will take a look at perspectives about social recruiting technology from thought leaders around the blogosphere! Today, we spoke with Christopher Fields, Social Media HR Consultant, HR Blogger, and Resume Jedi at Resume Crusade, to get his take on social media recruitment for the recruiter and jobseeker. Check out the video/audio, or...
Continue ReadingWith continual updates and innovations on social networks comes a plethora of opportunities for the recruiting world, as well as the world at large. We’ve steadily watched social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) grow by exponential amounts over the last six years, and it’s ever more necessary for the...
Continue ReadingTechnology’s growing importance in business might mystify those who just can’t seem to keep up with its ever-changing forms. In order to become “tech savvy,” recruiters and marketers must adopt and extend their reach through new tools and advancements. But not every tool is the right tool–it’s necessary to identify...
Continue ReadingI’m just back from Russia after hosting #truMoscow. It is interesting to spend time in a country talking to recruiters where Facebook is not the dominant channel. According to ComScore, the top 3 social media channels in Russia are: “ #1: VK.com Russia’s fourth-most-used website has around 120 million accounts, is...
Continue ReadingThis week I was in Amsterdam for #truAmsterdam, running a track on Facebook and Facebook recruiting. As always happens when we have this discussion, we got involved in the personal space discussion. When we talk about connecting with brands on Facebook, there is always some resistance, given the nature of...
Continue ReadingWhen you read a lot of content about talent communities and social recruiting, you often hear people talking about R.O.I. or “return on investment.” People trying to figure out just what they are getting back for their dollars spent and time invested. Social recruiting often seems like a lot of...
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to technology, you know something great comes along when you ask, “Why haven’t we thought of this already?” It seems like innovation happens faster than you can say supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Believe it or not 90% of data in the world has been created in just the last two...
Continue ReadingFacebook is constantly improving–and just a few weeks ago it announced one of its biggest improvements in years: an all new Newsfeed experience. The implications of the Newsfeed update are huge for HR and social recruiting, and this week on the Human Capital...
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