How Social Media Can Be Used For Recruitments?

How Social Media Can Be Used For Recruitments?

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Many social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin etc. help you a lot in your recruitment process by making your work so simple, easy and by reducing your precious time.

But what should you do?

The answer: it is up to you. If you decide to forbid social media sites as part of your recruitment process, then that message has to be made clear both to line recruiters and managers. A policy review may be required.

If you are including these kinds of sites for your processes, then you need to take many precautions to get benefits:

1)You have to ensure that your recruiting officers are trained in equal opportunities
2)Keep a paper trail and archive print-outs that you have used when assessing a candidate
3)You have review your policies and make it clear that only HR is allowed to consult online profiles

LinkedIn, the social media site, has the following benefits:

1.Easier to locate talent
2.Can do better reference checking
3.Easier to leverage your network to locate and reach talent
4.More honest data b/c profiles are essentially peer reviewed
5.Relationship context helps build a trusted communication environment

Social Media has lot of benefits for Employers because:

It is a best way to advertise your job vacancies here in free of cost
Provide the advertisement to number of people where they will send the job vacancies to their number of friends
Receive a lot of resume of talented candidates
Identify and approach suitable candidates
Helps in finding the right candidates in the shortest time to meet your specific requirements for the employers vacancy
Check the suitability of candidates
Brief the candidate about the responsibilities, salary and benefits of the job in your firm

It has a lot of benefits for a candidate also as

Can find a right job according to his/her skills, experience, knowledge, expected salary
Can post his/ her CV
Can ask his/ her queries in Comment box before sending CV. Therefore, he/ she can hide his/her personal information
Can also discuss about the job position, company etc. here
Can appraise his/ her skills, knowledge and experience relative to job requirements
Can upgrade his/ her skills according to current market demands
Can send this link to his/ her friends those who are searching a perfect job

So, you can use social media sites like (twitter, LinkedIn etc.) for your recruitment process and take advantages of them.

About the Author:
The author is a Web Analyst cum Social Media Expert and handles the HR Operations in Corporate. To know more about Visit Recruitments, @recruitbyrefer and Recruitment by Reference



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