Social media for recruitment - if you want to leverage social media a part of your recruitment strategy then take a look through our presentation.
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Social media for recruitment presentation - Leveraging social media for recruitment
1. Leveraging Social Media for
Recruitment
Lynsey Sweales- SocialB Ltd
@SocialBUK
Social Media & Online Marketing Experts
2. What will you leave with today?
What are the most effective channels to use?
What are you using social media for?
Who are you recruiting?
Graduates
Senior management
Large-scale recruitment
Mobile technology: how is it different?
Innovative approaches: practical examples from
recruitment campaigns
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3. SocialB
Social media & online marketing experts
- social media training courses/webinars
- Inhouse social media training
- social media consultancy/management
- search engine optimisation (being found on Google, etc)
- Pay per click
Social media council
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4. Different types of social media
Although they all enable sharing, there are
several different types of social media
Blogs are online diaries
Microblogs (Twitter) is texting online
Forums are conversational threads
Video sharing (YouTube) is shared video clips
Social photo (Flickr/Pinterest/Instagram) is
shared images and photos
Social networking (Facebook, LinkedIn,
Googleplus) is all of the above
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5. How it relates to business
Businesses can – and do – use social media. For every major
business function of every organisation, there is an equivalent
social media function:
Research=Listening to the conversations people have with each
other to understand their wants and needs
Marketing=Talking in the conversations people have with each
other to spread messages about your company, products & jobs
Sales=Energising customers/employees to sell you by finding
your most enthusiastic customers/employees and supercharging
them online
Support=Supporting customers/employees to support each
other by setting up tools that help them do this
Development=Embracing customers/employees to work with
each other by integrating them into the way your business works
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6. Why the social media explosion?
Free!
Sharing is a deeply ingrained human
instinct
Traditional communications were brand
led
New communications are word of mouth
led
Access to internet!
Instant!
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7. How is social media driving recruitment?
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77% of all job postings are
posted on LinkedIn &
almost half of those don’t
get posted anywhere else
94% of all recruiters use
LinkedIn to search for
candidates (66% for
Facebook and 54% for
Twitter) – all levels!
8. The four key elements to social media
success for recruitment
Strategy
Search
SEO (keywords)
Social
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10. Social Media Recruitment Strategy
Without a plan you plan to ……..
What does success look like?
How has your organisation become
successful? With a plan/strategy by any
chance??
Q1 “What do we want to achieve
with our social media activity?”
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11. Social Media Strategy
Your overall objectives will inform what you do
in social media in terms of:
Who you want to connect with
What content you share
How you interact with people
How often you need to interact with
people
How you want to influence people to
act
Its all measureable too!
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12. Who?
Create an excel sheet containing:
1) Common job titles – inc. the unique ones
in your organisation
2) Primary keywords associated with these
same job titles
3) Create some boolean strings – GREAT FREE
TOOL -
http://labs.socialtalent.co/generator.php
4) Ask your current employees /candidates
where they go to speak and chat to their
peer groups Which social networks?
5) Review groups on LinkedIn & review
members – what groups are they in?
6) Look at other networks and niche sites
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14. SEO
Search engine optimisation
Search engines index websites & social media
platforms
Google, Yahoo, Bing have to decide what answers to
give people
SEO = having the right keywords that people search
on
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15. Where to go keyword digging?
Use Google Keyword Planner
Use the search engines and their predictive text
Use your Google Analytics data (keyword source)
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17. Google Keyword Planner
Think like a potential employee - what they would type in
What location is/are the role(s) in? City, county, regions, UK
wide, global
Set up an excel sheet with keywords/keyphrases so they can be
used across all your online areas (social media, website
recruitment pages, etc.)
Start also using the terms to search for the people you are
looking for
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18. Keyword friendly content
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Use keywords with hashtags
(Twitter),including location
Link to the job role!
24. Search – LinkedIn Groups
LinkedIn Groups
People searches
Look for your ideal
candidate (or current
employees and see what
groups they are members
of)
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25. Example - Duratex
Largest wood panel,
metal fittings & sanitary
ware manufacturer in
Southern Hemisphere
Wanted to encourage top
Chemistry graduates but
were not getting to them
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26. Example - Duratex
Targeted students via the
Sao Paulo Facebook page
and ads
Linked to video rather
than role straight away
Worked really well
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Key take away – think where about the journey
of your potential employee – Uni, college, etc
28. Social -Two-way communication
The key feature that
differentiates social media
from traditional media is its
facility for two-way dialogue
This brings with it a number
of important advantages:
More powerful engagement
Improved recall
Active involvement
Participative for both parties
Make this principle core to a
social media recruitment
strategy
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30. Which Social Media Platforms to use?
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31. Example - ACCA
Great at sharing content,
supporting and
encouraging their
audience
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32. Social advertising
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Great for targeting specific
audiences – i.e. graduates,
etc.
Key having an attention
grabbing ad
Facebook & LinkedIn
BE AWARE – mobile ads
don’t currently show on
Facebook /LinkedIn mobile
33. Facebook
Great for Companies
especially if doing lots of
regular recruitment
Interaction is key, Facebook
want you to work for your
credibility
The REAL value is in your
fans content and
interaction you your page
Think target audience
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34. Twitter
If lots of regular recruitment set up a
dedicated account
If the odd job post on the main
Twitter profile – use hashtags
Don’t forget to search on Twitter for
people too – two way!
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35. LinkedIn
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If lots of regular
recruitment set up a
Careers page
If the odd job post on
the main profile, but
don’t forget the groups,
etc.
Don’t forget to go
searching too and
encourage your
employees to share the
role on their profiles
36. YouTube
Think out of the box – a day in
the life of a …….
A day in the life of an
employee at …….
Bring your organisation to life
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTF9EOqy9L8
39. What will you leave with today?
What are the most effective channels to use?
What are you using social media for?
Who are you recruiting?
Graduates
Senior management
Large-scale recruitment
Mobile technology: how is it different?
Innovative approaches: practical examples from
recruitment campaigns
Social Media & Online Marketing Experts
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41. Stay in touch!
+44 (0)223 258000
Lynsey@socialB.co.uk
www.socialB.co.uk
@socialBUK
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42. Leveraging Social Media for
Recruitment
Lynsey Sweales- SocialB Ltd
@SocialBUK
Social Media & Online Marketing Experts
Hinweis der Redaktion
Don’t just wait for people to apply for jobs – go looking for people too
Note people on Twitter use the word grad rather than graduate – key to note and use yourself!
UEA use this method - people will often tweet what uni UEA or ???
By the UEA jumping on these tweets and engaging with the person the conversion rate is a lot higher than the other uni who takes days to reply if at all
First impressions count!