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52 ideas on using social media within HR

December 3rd, 2008 · 18 Comments · HR Management, Recruitment, Social Networks, Video · 17,042 views

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  • 1 Jason Davis // Dec 3, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Hey Michael. That is a great list. Can you send me that it a word document? How long did it take to put that together?

  • 2 Michael Specht // Dec 3, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    To be honest about a day of writing, however many if the ideas have developed gradually in the last year or so talking to people.

    Word document? For you sure, just say where you got it from ;-)

  • 3 thomas shaw // Dec 3, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    Further to #5 # Get a feed reader and subscribe to blogs about HR & recruiting

    Sign up to http://www.recruitmentblogs.com.au and receive all news from 19 sources :P

  • 4 Michael Specht // Dec 3, 2008 at 7:25 pm

    @Thomas, now there’s a bit of shameless self promotion!

  • 5 Steve Boese // Dec 4, 2008 at 12:53 am

    Michael,

    Excellent list, is it ok if I share it with my HR Technology students (with attribution of course)?

  • 6 Jason Davis // Dec 4, 2008 at 1:36 am

    Thanks Michael, I put it on RecruitingBlogs.com

  • 7 Michael Specht // Dec 4, 2008 at 5:53 am

    Steve, Yes you can share it with your students.

    Jason thanks!

  • 8 Sarah Nguyen // Dec 5, 2008 at 11:43 pm

    Michael, great list. Thanks for taking the time to put it all together. Where I work (Atlassian) we do a lot of the things you mentioned and our intranet is infact a wiki (one of our products – Confluence :) where all company communication and info (including our policies, procedures, plans etc) are stored. We also use our wiki heavily as part of induction and request that all new starters blog to introduce themselves to the rest of the company.

    The suggestion of a wiki for candidates to discuss their recruitment experiences is an interesting one. Do you know of any companies that do this?

    - sarahsez on Twitter.

  • 9 Matt Bares // Dec 10, 2008 at 3:44 am

    I was emailed this list by a friend and had to say – thank you for posting! Great list. I have to say I was a little surprised by 45 and 47 in which you recommended using video games like World of Warcraft and Second Life to develop proffesional relationships with candidates. Have you done this, and has it worked?

  • 10 Michael Specht // Dec 10, 2008 at 7:21 am

    @Sarah Great to have you stop by. No companies I know of use a wiki to document their recruitment process. I glad to see Atlassian is putting all these ideas into practice. BTW love your products, use them almost daily.

    @Matt There are several companies using Second Life as part of their recruitment strategy, the latest being the US Navy. While no one I know uses WoW for recruitment it is being recognised as a valid learning experience. Not all of the ideas work for all industries or companies but some should work. Glad you liked the list.

  • 11 Bonita Trenwith // Dec 10, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    Web 2.00 Technology site.
    Please view at

    http://www.peopleonline.com.au

    Comments welcome.

  • 12 Jacob from JobMob // Dec 10, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    I tried to leave a comment yesterday, not sure why it didn’t get through…

    Terrific list. I Stumbled it and dugg it for you.

    Here are some more suggestions:

    53) Setup a refer-a-friend program with bonuses for successful referrals and a leaderboard to engage participants and encourage competition. Use either one system for everyone or separate systems for employees and non-employees.

    54) Have your HR team guest post and actively comment on other recruitment blogs and even (potential) client blogs.

    55) Your careers web site should have a page of testimonials, ideally from past workers.

    56) Use Outbrain-type ratings or Digg-style voting on your documentation, and then make changes to improve results.

    57) Meta-policy: encourage transparency in all the activities on this list to build trust, confidence and credibility. Give every mistake or mis-step its silver lining.

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  • 15 Candice // Jul 29, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Michael, you have some interesting information here. I’m new to this concept of social media as a source of recruiting. In fact, I’m doing some research on it to get a better understanding. Do you think any one medium works better than the other or is it relative to types of jobs/industry/candidates in the market, etc?

  • 16 Karishma Daswani // Oct 1, 2009 at 2:05 am

    Hi Micheal
    Your pointers are really useful & simple to implement. What is required is a bit of training on an organization’s part to allow the change to social media as part of the recruitment strategy

    I have recently started a Human Resource website http://www.karishmadaswani.com
    Pls do go through it. It would be nice to know what you think.
    Thanks

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  • 18 Fabin Luxe // Sep 21, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    Exelent list!
    good work! :)

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