social media recruitment and employer branding, london oct 7, 2014

Copyright 2014 Tom Laine, tom.laine@somehow.fi, Mob. +358 400 296 196

Social media recruitment &Employer brandingLondon Oct 7, 2014

Copyright 2014 Tom Laine, tom.laine@somehow.fi, Mob. +358 400 296 196

Who’s talking?

Social media expert, most networked person in Finland at LinkedIn

Recruitment industry background...

Templeton & Partners UK, IT Recruiter

Huntress Search UK, Senior Consultant

Executive Net UK / FIN, Principal Consultant

Elan IT Resource / Manpower Group, Nordic Resource Management

BI-IT Solutions Ltd. / VMP Group Finland, CEO

Social Media recruitment since 2004- (1999- )

Several social media publications

References: Microsoft, Nokia, NSN, Agco Sisu Power, UPM, Digia, Elektrobit, Nice Business Solutions, Newsec, universities, public offices, cities, SMEs, NGOs, unemployment offices, etc.

Speaking engagements in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, U.K., Ireland, etc.

Over 200 organisations consulted in 3 years + employees of over 200 other organisations have attended open trainings

In Russia clients include e.g. Ikea, Mercedes Benz, MetLife Alico, Louie Vuitton, Bell Equipment, PPG Industries, Servier, SEB Bank, Laydings, Antal, Marketvisio / Gartner, Rödl & Partner, Start CBS, Rulo Havi Global Logistics, Gowlings, Cluttons, Velux, Transaero

Time vs. money

Volume

Passive candidates

'War of talent'The constant fight over the best individuals never ends

Employer brand!

Total cost of hire?

Free vs. expensive

Societe Generale

Societe Generale

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The social media recruitment trinity

The social media recruitment trinity

LinkedIn

World’s biggest CV database

17,7 mill. British, 330+ mill. globally

Facebook

over 1,1 billion users globally

36 mill. users, 31-33 mill. unique users/month, 24 mill. daily

Twitter

over 15 mill. British users

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Highlighting visual material

Engage personnel, tell a story!

Futurice – pictures worth a 1000 words?

Video in recruitment

Pinterest

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What else?

Google Plus

Instagram

Gamification!

Mobile apps

LinkedIn

Extra materials

Graduateland – for student and graduaterecruitment

Ushi – westerners in China

vKontakte – for Russian speaking Europe

Headhunter.ru and Professionali for Russia

Xing – for German-speaking Europe

Gulp – freelance work in Central Europe

Freelance.de – freelance work in Central Europe

Freelancermap – freelance work in Central Europe

Glassdoor for salary advice, interview and general jobsearching support

The many ways of applying via mobile

Ask for more!

Tom Laine

Mob. +358 400 296 196

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Email: tom.laine@somehow.fi

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