Social media continues to build its prominence in every sphere and recruitment and hiring process is not an exception. Branding is one of the most powerful tools to attract attention and what could be more effective than social media to do it successfully. Spread positive messages about your company, its work culture, values and innovations.

1. How
Social Media
Can Help
You Get The
Right Talent?

2. Social media continues to build its
prominence in every sphere and
recruitment and hiring process is
not an exception.

3. In fact, the exponentially expanding social networks
online are turning into employee marketplaces for every
industrial vertical.

4. As an employer or recruiter, you can recognize, attract, evaluate,
hire as well as retain top industry talents.

5. But You Don’t Know How to do that?

6. Understand Different Social
Channels and Leverage
Them
Build Employer Brand and
Promote Employee Value
Proposition
Keep Your Connections
Engaged and Build High
Participation Levels
Learn from Other Employers
and Use Your Employees’
Networks
Ideas To Help You Get Started

7. Understand Different Social
Channels and Leverage Them

8.  Be it’s the social networking platforms like Facebook or the
microblogging sites like Twitter, extend the search for potential
employees at every popular media.
 Video streaming websites like YouTube and professional
networking sites like LinkedIn are the other similar channels.

9. Create company pages
Post job-related ads
Connect with more and more users
Conduct searches
Create career pages
Build career applications for mobile social networking
Here are few ways you can conduct your recruitment campaigns:

10. Build Employer Brand and
Promote Employee Value
Proposition

11.  Branding is one of the most powerful tools to attract attention
and what could be more effective than social media to do it
successfully.
 Spread positive messages about your company, its work
culture, values and innovations.

12.  Most importantly, present your company and workplace as
the best place for employees to join, work at and grow.
 Let every social media user learning about the company
through social media get impressed by the employee value
proposition (returns that your employee enjoy in return to
their work) you offer.

13. Keep Your Connections Engaged
and Build High Participation
Levels

14.  Creating social media profiles is not enough, but you need to
keep them lively and fresh and maintain the interests of those
who have joined you.
 Remember that your social networks may consist of your
current employees, ex-employees, new employees, potential
employees and others and you must entertain each one of
them.

15.  Provide fresh content and update it on regular basis
 Be active in participating in group discussions
 Highlight the achievements of the employees and those of
the company
 Invite new employees to share their views about the
recruitment process
Here are some Ideas

16.  Encourage the employees to share their experiences about
promotions, company’s work culture and other aspects.
 Allow the employees to share their innovative ideas and
reviews, both good and bad.
 Take care of the negative remarks, feedbacks and ratings
expertly.

17. Learn from Other Employers
and Use Your Employees’
Networks

18.  Top players in every field are already extracting the benefits of
hiring through social media channels.
 Most of them share their experiences and success stories
online and you can use them as examples.
 Another great idea is to use the social networks and profiles of
your existing employees to find the new ones.

19.  You will be surprised to know how your employees can help
you in searching the best people for different job positions.
 Don’t forget to reward them for their contributions.

20. Don’t forget to use the social media networks to
employees the resumes you receive. Background checks
and employee histories can be accessed with ease most of
the times to make the right selections.

21. Following this social approach, you can save time,
money and efforts and secure the best talent for your
company.

22. Read more on Staffing:
1. 5 Unexplored Benefits Of Contract Staffing
2. How Social Media Surpassing Traditional Resumes?
3. How To Choose The Right Employer As Per Requirement

23. Thank you for Reading!
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