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Hello and welcome to the pre-Christmas, November issue of Social Talent’s SocialRecruiting Round-Up – a collection of the best blogs, infographics and new stories posted on the Social Talent blog in the last month. The ULTIMATE Recruiter’s Guide to Mobile for 2015. The truth is in the numbers!
Now that April is upon us, we thought it was time to reflect and take a look back at the most popular blog posts, the most talked about infographics and the biggest recruitment and sourcing news stories of the last month – otherwise know as the March edition of the Social Talent SocialRecruiting Round-Up! Job seekers!
Today marks the beginning of the fifth month of 2015 (we’re almost halfway through it!), How to: Produce a Kick-Ass Recruitment Video for FREE in Under 60 Minutes. Employer branding is one of the most important aspects of candidate attraction in 2015. What an inventive use of your own product for recruitment purposes!
Today, we’re bringing together all of that knowledge into one blog post package – the SocialRecruiting Round-Up for May 2015. Top Recruitment News Stories in May: LinkedIn’s Q1 2015 Earnings are In! And Talent Solutions represented 62% of total revenue in Q1 2015 and 2014.
Socialrecruitment seems to have almost slavishly followed the stages of the Gartner Hype Cycle. We know that socialrecruitment isn’t going to replace everything else we’ve been doing but promoting your jobs to your most engaged audience makes sense. Keep an eye on the following socialrecruitment trends.
This month’s Favourites are not to be missed so enjoy them, share them and have a very Happy Friday recruiters! Top Recruitment Blogs from July 2015: 7 (FREE) Twitter Products for Serious SocialRecruiters. Top 10 In-Demand IT Job Titles 2015. The World’s Most Attractive Employers 2015.
The recruitment industry is a fast-changing one. New technologies, new techniques, new jobboards, new demographics, new economic issues… our industry is in a constant state of flux. Top Takeaways: For 2015, the priorities of recruiters include: improving time to hire – 15%. growing the employer brand – 10%.
In this example, you can see the Social Talent Twitter account received 56 retweets on the June 23rd, 2015: You can also do the same for the overall number of link clicks, favourites, replies and engagement rates. But what does this new character limit mean for recruiters? Johnny Campbell (@SocialTalent) July 6, 2015.
In the news this week: The Future of Recruiting: Roadmap 2016. And while other generations also rank these reasons highly when choosing a job, millennials find them to be significantly more important. As part of Talent Connect 2015, LinkedIn announced the top 100 most in-demand employers in EMEA in 2015. thus far in 2015.
What an inventive use of your own product for recruitment purposes! Snapchat , the photo messaging application, has been sneakily approaching its competitor’s talent by adding a layer to its pictures which sends them to their jobsboard. Industry: Tech.
If your organization is considering a mobile and socialrecruiting strategy, the good news is that it’s not too late to effectively implement one. According to a 2014 study by CareerBuilder , only 39% of all employers use social media for recruiting and hiring. Is mobile device usage high for this prevailing demographic?
million Americans on Facebook, 66 million on Twitter, and 122 million on LinkedIn, social media is no longer an area that recruiters can afford to ignore. In fact, LinkedIn’s 2015 U.S. Aside from using social media to search for high-quality candidates, make a resolution to step up your social media game.
Rather than send out a collection of generic links that would add no value to you, I’ve decided to write a post summarising the changes that our industry has seen this year alongside some of my predictions for 2015. Whether Facebook is going to become a recruiting superpower remains to be seen. Goliath vs Goliath. Differentiation.
Socialrecruiting is much easier said than done. Although sites like Twitter and LinkedIn may be far down on the top source of hire list in 2015, companies seem to be more interested in experimenting with socialrecruiting than ever before. What Does A SocialRecruiting Culture Look Like?
. “Because of the high attrition rate for women working in tech, teaching more girls and women to code is not enough to solve this problem,” Rachel Thomas, a software engineer, wrote in a Medium post in July 2015. The original service is for high-class recruitment and aimed at job seekers looking for salaries of over $75,000.
Five years ago this change wouldn’t have been significant, but in 2015 mobile users now make up a significant proportion of web traffic, even reported to have surpassed desktop by some sources. The rest comes from jobboards, paid marketing and social media (providing you have a good social strategy in place).
Sure, reach is important, sure, but when you’re recruiting for an Engineer with Python Coding in their background, are your resources really best spent on a jobboard targeted primarily at sales professionals or a social site like Pinterest? Are we saying that a recruiting background is required to excel at EB?
It is early January so you may not yet have noticed any change to LinkedIn, but in the background there have been several key changes implemented for 2015. Two of these changes are very significant for recruiters and have the potential to force those that are currently getting by with the LinkedIn Basic account to upgrade to Premium.
Ultimately, Patel said Hired could be used “for marketers, for human resources, for accounts for architects — all knowledge workers should be able to find a job this way.”. LinkedIn have just released their 2015 Talent Trends report , compiling responses from more than 1,600 professionals in the U.S. What Do the Latest U.S. and Canada.
Content marketing is so big in fact that the Content Marketing Institute’s (CMI) 2015 Content Marketing Budgets, Benchmarks and Trends report found that 86% of B2B and 77% of B2C organizations have some sort of content marketing strategy in place. Download our free guide to attracting and engaging top talent in a candidate-driven market here.
Using social media in recruiting isn’t new — 84 percent of organizations surveyed by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) currently use socialrecruiting. But socialrecruiting is no longer limited to screening candidates’ social profiles or connecting with talent on LinkedIn.
Jobboards vs. social media: What’s the most significant source of hire for companies globally? The reports of the death of jobboards have clearly been greatly exaggerated. However, they still play second fiddle to jobboards. Weren’t jobboards supposed to die a LONG time ago?
But how do you, the recruiters, feel this problem can be tackled in 2015? Could a Hackathon be the Perfect Way to Kick-Off 2015? Looking to improve your talent acquisition processes, create lasting talent pipelining strategies and successfully source for open positions in 2015? Let us know in the comments below.
But as March fast approaches we thought it was time to reflect and take a look back at the most popular blog posts, the most talked about infographics and the biggest recruitment and sourcing news stories of the last month – otherwise know as the February edition of the Social Talent SocialRecruiting Round-Up!
LinkedIn’s Recruiter Corporate and Job Slots Price Increases. In a post on the LinkedIn Talent Solutions blog, LinkedIn have finally given out details of the price increases to befall paid LinkedIn members come January 1st 2015. Sneak Peak: LinkedIn’s Two New Product Upgrades for 2015.
The UK’s “spiralling skills gap” has worsened in the past year as there are almost 2 jobs available per candidate, according to a new report published by online jobboard, Adzuna. candidates per role in October 2015. In October 2014, there were 0.95 candidates per role. That number has plummeted during the past 12 months.
UK recruiters need more than monetary compensation to attract best talent. Recruitment professionals struggling to match hires to employer demand. Socialrecruiting is emerging as a recruitment imperative. Recruiting is Getting Tougher. Socialrecruiting is the new frontier.
To put it into perspective, in 2015, 39% of companies said Quality of Hire (QoH) was their most valuable performance metric. Streamlining Your Recruiting Process. If you’re a recruiter or an HR Professional tasked with recruiting, you likely have to: Answer phone calls and emails. Implement socialrecruiting campaigns.
In 2015 almost 2 in 3 employed adults looked at new opportunities within three months of starting a job. Question is, how do you capitalize on these almost-always-looking candidates from a recruiting perspective? The Talent Board’s2015 Candidate Experience study surveyed 130,000 candidates.
There are 2800 companies that are tagged as Recruiting Startups on AngelList , of which 199 were added in August and September 2015. After ignoring 31 firms that weren’t really recruiting-related, here is what I found about the remaining 168 companies – so almost three per day.
Jobboards and career sites produced 77% of the applicants for jobs. Career sites produced 22% and jobboards yielded 17%. lara cohen (@Larakate) August 30, 2015. Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) August 30, 2015. Pharrell Williams (@Pharrell) August 31, 2015. 5m5GvuBOqf.
Here are ten trends every hiring manager and job seeker needs to know: Jobboards remain popular: Jobboards are the initial ‘go-to’ for job seekers and according to LinkedIn’s 2015 Global Recruiting Trend Survey produced the highest quantity of hires in 2014.
The fact is most people still get jobs via jobboards. Which is why, whilst social media has its place in the overall recruitment matrix, its importance shouldn’t be overplayed. billion has already been invested into HR Tech in just the first half of 2015.
Research shows that jobboards on average gather 43% of all applications companies receive for new job openings. But while jobboards may have the highest number of applications, their conversion-to-hire rates fall drastically behind other sources of hire like employee referrals and company career sites.
Recruiters use social media sourcing to build talent pipelines for future roles and engage passive candidates who haven’t applied for current openings. Here’s everything you need to know about how to use socialrecruiting to build a strategy that meets your hiring needs: Intro to social media recruitment: Analyzing the data.
Social media dynamos Instagram and Pinterest nearly doubled their users between 2012 and 2015 , according to a new study — and Pinterest is winning. based think tank, surveyed 1,907 adults this spring to learn about their social media habits. Misty Humphries (@mhumphriesmd) August 11, 2015.
Created by Ania Bywanis and Sebastian Pawluś , the site is based in Krakow, Poland and is a direct reaction to difficult job searches using outdated methods. The unique angle — a map that shows you exactly how many jobs are in a particular area — is reflective of this and is a clever and fun hack on the boring jobboards of old. “
The visual app now has over 500 million users – twice its count from 2 years ago – and it added the last 100 million since September 2015, faster than the previous 100 million. On June 21st, Instagram hit a rather big milestone. That’s 34% higher than the national average. Dean of Engineering at Dartmouth, Joseph Helble.
I’m also not a data scientist, since I’m as good at math as most people in marketing, but I realized in reading through this recruiter whine party that quantitative measurements and metrics aside, there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that there’s something rotten going on in the state of talent acquisition today.
And although we’ve been one of it’s biggest advocates for 5 years now, we believe 2015 will spell the end of Boolean search as we know it. B g about JobBoards being Dead. It irks us when recruiters try to sound clever by declaring jobboards are dead. Jobboards are not dead.
However, a huge 60% of recruiters still don’t use social media in the recruitment process, according to the Jobvite 2015SocialRecruitment Survey. But why should you be using social media to recruit and what benefits can it deliver to your HR function? You can reach those passive candidates.
Roy Ripper Recruiters Live Lounge. Although it hasn’t been updated since mid-December 2015, it is well worth going back over the 36 existing podcasts industry influencer, Roy Ripper , has to offer on his Recruiters Live Lounge website. We’re recruiters. Follow @TEDRadioHour. Follow @NPRinvisibilia.
Even with the technological advancements in recruiting today, they still haven’t eliminated the old ways – or rendered the talent Luddites obsolete. Print ads, broadcast media or plain old help wanted ads still work (as do jobboards); just maybe not as efficiently or effectively as the other tools available to talent pros today.
Forget, for a second, that we have more positions open than recruiters to fill them, and keeping up with demand means scouring every source possible, including paying an obscene amount of money each year for licenses and access to a slew of paid sources, from jobboard databases to “professional networks.”
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