social recruiting and its impact on your job search

Social Recruiting

and

its impact on your job search

Philippe Gadeyne

Business/Marketing/Social Media Consulting

“From strategy to implementation”

What is social media?

Social media is the leveraging of social networks to maximize exposure, create

networking opportunities, build relationships and create job and business opportunities

Why should I care?

Social recruiting

Recruiters use social media for recruiting

What platforms do they use?

They use social media at every stage of the recruiting process

They hire candidates identified through social media

Social network used to hire candidates

They review social media profiles

Recruiters’ Likes and Dislikes

42% have reconsidered a candidate positively or

negatively based on content

They look for

Advantages of social recruiting

77% Reach passive job seekers 74% Lower cost 72% Source of hard to find skills and

experience 72% Good way to find target candidates 60% Identify potential candidates before a

requisition opens

They find better quality candidates

Recruiting through social media and referrals is more efficiant

Candidates hired have a lower turnover

Where will you spend more?

76% Employee referrals 72% Social networks 64% Corporate career sites

Where will you spend less?

72% Outside recruiters/search firms 57% Job boards

Only 57% of the vacancies were listed on

job boards

What does that mean for you?

More jobs will be filled through live and online networking

Job Boards will become more and more irrelevant

“If you do not like change, you will like irrelevancy

even less”General Eric Shinseki

Accept new technologies Learn themUse them.

Your relevancy in the job market is at stake

Philippe Gadeyne

Spinnaker Marketing

Business/Marketing/Social Media Consulting“From strategy to implementation”

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