Use Social Recruiting to Attract Employees

Think social media is the new best place for sourcing potential employees? Social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook are valuable resources for sourcing potential employees for your open jobs. But employers take a risk if rhey use social media for more than sourcing. Find out more.

Social recruiting that employers do on LinkedIn personally and by tapping into the extended social networks of their employees and friends, has expanded the candidate pool. No longer time and location bound, recruiting in social media is key to hiring a talented workforce.

For employers, use Facebook to recruit employees in numerous and increasingly effective ways. These are a few ideas about recruiting employees using Facebook. Once the online place where students hung out and exchanged pictures and advice with their friends, Facebook has morphed into a resource for all ages and employers.

Want to tap into the power of an employee referral program? A referral program that emphasizes potential employee referrals from current employees is a method employers use to find superior employees. In this age of online social media and social networking, a referral program has even broader potential to locate qualified candidates. With or...

54% of the companies that participated in a recent Towers Watson survey reported problems attracting employees with critical skills, despite the high unemployment rate. Of the surveyed companies, 37% report having trouble hiring top-performing employees. You can overcome the shortage of top performing employees when you create a work culture...

You can use social media sites to source potential employees. The stronger your contacts within social media, the better the networking opportunities that yield employees. Use social media to advertise jobs, build your company's image and tap into candidates in your employees' social media networks.

Social media participation is an essential tool in networking with professional contacts, making new contacts, recruiting employees, and keeping in touch with the world. If you’re not participating in the top social media and networking sites, the world is leaving you behind. Become involved on the social media Web sites while your...

Employers are asking job searchers for their personal and private passwords to access their accounts on social media sites such as Facebook. This is a bad practice. Employers may lose their best candidates and using social media findings in hiring decisions is a legal quagmire. Find out more.