Recruiting via Social Media

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Recruiting via Social Media

Recruiting via Twitter, Facebook and other Social Media is great, because it means you can publicise your roles to interested candidates without paying recruitment agency fees. It’s easy to do, easy to track and doesn’t cost anything apart from your time. It’s not perfect of course – you are reliant on suitable potential candidates being followers or fans and reading your posts, but overall it’s a ‘no-brainer’, particularly for those businesses which operate in sectors where social media is in every day use.

So does Social Media guarantee that you’ll get the perfect recruit? Absolutely not. Recruitment is at least a 2 stage process; firstly you need to source your potential candidates and, whilst in the past this was often done via the expensive and time consuming means of using recruitment agencies or placing advertisements, Social Media can help. Once this is done, your selection process needs to start and this is where many companies admit to struggling. We’d like to know more about the specific difficulties you have when it comes to whittling down your pool of potential candidates to identify the ideal person to make your offer to.

Some suggestions (and this is by no means exhaustive!) -

Do you have trained, high quality interviewing skills in your business?
Have you got the time to devote to a recruitment process?
Do you know what you are looking for and are you able to produce a high quality job description and person specification?

Or there could be any number of other areas. We’d appreciate your thoughts on the challenges and difficulties you face when recruiting into your business. All feedback will be treated confidentially.

Why are we doing this? We already offer our clients training and development in Recruitment and Selection, and we are now developing a programme specifically for companies who are using Social Media. This is scheduled to run in March 2010 as a one day workshop. The feedback we receive will help us to refine the content for the programme and, do you know what, if you give us some constructive comments we'll even offer you a discounted place on the programme...

Please send your thoughts to; rc@upwebsite.com