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Successful and forward-thinking recruiters are starting to understand the value of social media. They are starting to explore it further and are constantly finding like-minded organisations; individuals, clients and candidates from their sector present in these various online platforms. As job boards have evolved, a growing trend in online recruitment has very much secured a large spot in the industry now, with social networking sites starting to offer hugely promising platforms for the industry. Recruitment has gone social.

Benefits of Social Media in Recruitment:

  • Search tools: the scope to find candidates and clients has widened exponentially-69% of users on twitter are in the main target audience for recruiters: 18-49 year olds. This can be achieved through real-time search
  • Job distribution
  • LinkedIn is a platform recruiters can use to connect with companies and professional individuals-reputation and skill base is already clear
  • Client and customer engagement through relevant dialogues and content
  • Twitter is being used to post vacancies
  • TwitJobSearch now allows recruiters and candidates to search and communicate immediately with each other
  • YouTube is being used for videos, both for alerting candidates to jobs and for candidates to create their own video content to get recruiters attention
  • Facebook is being used for job postings
  • Blogs create more traffic to recruitment sites

To learn more about how we can help you factor in social media into your recruitment please contact us