Recruiting Toolbox

DECEMBER 12, 2014

When I talk with talent leaders at different companies, one of the hottest topics on their minds is social recruiting. While most leaders know that social needs to be a critical part of their recruiting efforts, many are struggling with how to optimize the strategy and select tools that will help them meet their goals.

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Metashift

JUNE 6, 2013

In the plethora of blog posts, white papers, conferences, webinars and hang outs about social recruiting, the focus and topics are always very similar. New tools, new ways of sourcing and vague unquantified references to engagement and "being social".

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CareerArc

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In the real world, that outcome is possible, but it relies on a successful candidate-sourcing strategy. Here’s why candidate sourcing matters—and how social recruiting can help! What is candidate sourcing? Compared to recruiting, candidate sourcing focuses more specifically on a proactive search.

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Workable

APRIL 21, 2017

When sourcing and hiring military veterans for your roles, use online resources to get candidate profiles and contact details: VetJobs. Beyond niche job sites, use go-to sourcing techniques, like boolean search and social recruiting. Sourcing candidates? Want to learn more about effective sourcing techniques?

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Social Talent

JANUARY 29, 2015

Yes, the first month of 2015 is coming to an end, but in case you missed any of the most the month’s popular blog posts, the most talked about infographics and the biggest recruitment and sourcing news stories, we have them all here for you to enjoy: Top Blogs in January: How to: Radically Improve Your Candidate Response Rates in 2 Easy Steps.

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CareerArc

APRIL 27, 2022

So you’ve heard about social recruiting , but you’re not convinced. With all the talent acquisition strategies out there, should you really be investing in recruiting on social media ? How candidates use social media in their job search. The majority of the stats below are from our 2021 Future of Recruiting Study.

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Staffing Talk

APRIL 10, 2012

They found the following results with regard to using social networking sites at work: 31% of companies prohibit all access (down from 54% in 2009). Read the details of the study if you want to know more. Do lots of companies still prohibit their workforce from accessing social networking sites? 13% – Recruiter.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

MAY 31, 2021

To find out, we turned to the 2021 CareerArc Future of Recruitment Study. . After all, the last thing you want is a misinformed public review profile, as the study also found that a 1-star rating on an employer review site will turn away nearly 1 in 3 job seekers. What this means for your strategy.

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CareerArc

MAY 5, 2022

Below are just 9 ways taken from the full checklist of 29 strategies and best practices for recruiting using social media. Access the Checklist: 29 proven ways social recruiting boosts talent acquisition. >> >> How social media boosts talent acquisition across the candidate journey.

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Proactive Talent

MAY 24, 2016

But while job boards 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. As well, studies have found that employees who successfully referred a candidate stay with the company longer.

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CareerArc

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Here’s something we’ve talked about before: social media recruiting nets you more qualified candidates. Instead of telling you how social media helps you get more qualified candidates. Our main hiring challenge was finding and reaching qualified, credentialed healthcare candidates without overextending our lean recruitment team.

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Beamery

AUGUST 3, 2016

It’s so easy to make social recruiting mistakes that many recruiters don’t even realise where they’re going wrong. Social recruiting has become a key part of almost every top hiring operation. In fact, only 4% of recruiters don’t use social media in the recruiting process.

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Newton Software

JULY 26, 2016

Sourcing Remains the Number One Recruitment Priority of 2016. According to research from our Newton User Insights*, 55% of our respondents list sourcing top talent as their number one challenge. This makes sense, considering that sourcing is the fuel that keeps the recruitment fire burning. Passive Candidates.

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Proactive Talent

MAY 9, 2017

The annual Edelman Trust Barometer study found that people today trust an individual or peer like themselves much more than a company’s CEO, senior executives or corporate channels. 80% of job candidates’ decisions to apply to a company are influenced by sources like peer-to-peer and word-of-mouth recommendations.

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Social Talent

MARCH 27, 2016

Yes, according to a survey of 56,000 tech workers from over 172 countries by Stack Overflow (the world’s largest online community for developers), 51% labelled dealing with recruiters the “most annoying” part of searching for and obtaining work, with most opting to use personal contacts to get interviews.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Fortunately, remote hiring allows recruiters to source talent from every corner of the world without worrying about physical barriers. Don't Miss Out on Social Recruiting Whether you're searching for candidates locally, nationally, or globally, you have the advantage of a larger pool of candidates when you hire remotely.

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Recruitalicious

JANUARY 8, 2014

As recruiters, our primary goals are to represent our organizations as brand ambassadors, drive traffic and positive attention, demonstrate competence and tech-savviness, inspire meaningful conversations and remain relevant, timely and precise—ultimately to attract the best available candidates. In reality, social recruiting is dead.

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Jobvite

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Get employees involved : Yelp makes it easy for all employees to refer candidates; even at this year’s rapid pace of growth, employee referrals have provided a consistent, high quality source of hires with 33% of hires made through referrals. ” Rachel Williams, Recruiting Manager at Yelp.

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Sirona Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Don’t dismiss Facebook for recruiting until you have at least tried the potential and power of Facebook Graph Search for identifying and sourcing new candidates. Personal details ( although sometimes limited ) including education, employers, interests, languages, locations, subjects studied. billion people globally.

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CareerArc

APRIL 7, 2022

For more on employee advocacy and how to use it to scale your talent acquisition and social recruiting efforts , see here. Understanding the importance of employee advocacy on social media. As one of our clients shared , when they first started with social recruiting, they saw results on Facebook overnight.

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Jobvite

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

As difficult as all this sounds, many hiring managers are putting themselves through the same agony by leading their recruiting efforts without sourcing. Sourcing is more powerful and important than ever before due to the sheer amount of online profiles and data available online. That’s the timesaving power of sourcing at work.

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CareerArc

JULY 26, 2022

Instagram Best Practices for Recruiters. Studies show that for maximum effectiveness, you want to post several times a week on Instagram. Start planning imagery, sourcing content, and editing captions early so you can schedule in advance. Engagement is a vital step in recruiting. Check out some ideas here.

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ExactHire Recruiting

DECEMBER 7, 2015

If your organization is considering a mobile and social recruiting 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. Recruiting Performance.

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CareerArc

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, a compelling employee spotlight: An honest look at your company culture: Peeling back the curtain on your diversity and inclusivity initiatives: Or just a great job post that highlights your strengths: (Psst: Want to reap the benefits of social media recruiting without having to do it all manually? We’re here to help.

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Jobvite

APRIL 25, 2016

Welcome to the first in a three part series on using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for Social Recruiting. According to Jobvite’s Job Seeker Nation Study , 87% of recruiters use LinkedIn to search for candidates. Are you utilizing LinkedIn to its full recruiting potential?

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Jobvite

APRIL 25, 2016

Welcome to the first in a three part series on using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook for Social Recruiting. According to Jobvite’s Job Seeker Nation Study , 87% of recruiters use LinkedIn to search for candidates. Are you utilizing LinkedIn to its full recruiting potential?

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Recruiting Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Tumblr seems to be a little like social’s red headed stepchild, especially when it comes to business use – it’s not like you read a ton of success stories or case studies about brands and consumers flocking to Tumblr – in fact, it rarely merits so much as a passing mention. But I wouldn’t count on it.

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Social Talent

MAY 19, 2015

You’ve made the decision to include content as part of your social recruiting efforts and we salute you for it. The benefits of active content sharing for your recruiting efforts are huge. Let me first say, well done. But finding the magic “spot on the clock” isn’t as illusive as you may think.

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Jibe

AUGUST 18, 2016

Social recruiting 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 social recruiting than ever before. What Does A Social Recruiting Culture Look Like?

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Contract Recruiter

JANUARY 4, 2017

Better yet, use a social recruiting tool to get to know their personal and professional interests on social media (Facebook, YouTube, Google+, GitHub, etc.). To find candidates quickly and easily on social media, you have several options. Look at each candidate’s LinkedIn profile, and get to know them.

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Social Talent

JULY 3, 2016

To learn more about what drives the most talented candidates in the workforce, check out the full study here. Monitoring your social mentions just got a whole lot easier thanks to Twitter. Recommended Reading: 7 Twitter Lists Clever Recruiters Use to Boost Their Recruiting Efforts ). Introducing the Twitter Dashboard.

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Stories Incorporated

MAY 5, 2021

Studies have shown* that the majority of employees want flexibility and the option to decide where they’ll work. Among all workers surveyed in the Prudential study, 68 percent believe a hybrid workplace model is ideal. One conclusion of the study: extreme flexibility and hybrid work will define the post-pandemic workplace.

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CareerArc

JUNE 3, 2022

Social recruiting needs to be an integral part of your talent acquisition strategy , especially now. But for social recruiting to be done right, it needs to be done at scale —with enough variety, frequency, and reach to effectively break through the noise and reach the candidates you’re looking for. Here’s the thing.

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CareerArc

JUNE 8, 2022

When global, multi-brand restaurant company Inspire Brands —home to brands like Arby’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Baskin-Robbins, Sonic Drive-In, and more—started looking for a social recruiting solution, they knew they needed a competitive and agile social media recruiting platform to match their talent acquisition needs.

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Social Talent

MAY 22, 2016

In recruitment news this week: Freelance Workers Will Soon Outnumber Employees. Furthermore, a study by Intuit estimates that by 2020 the number of freelancers will grow to about 60 million — about 40% of the private workforce. And that “something big” is their brand new fit-assessment/sourcing/screening site: Hooble.

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CareerArc

MAY 4, 2022

But as anyone who’s tried manually building a social recruiting presence knows, it’s also time consuming. So let’s get into the pros and cons of social recruiting automation. Automated social media recruiting: The pros and cons. Effective social media recruiting is social media recruiting done at scale.

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Social Talent

MAY 15, 2016

The Swedish study isn’t the first that made a connection between happier, rested workers and better outcomes for employers. People who feel overworked said they make more mistakes at work, according to a study by the Families and Work Institute.

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