Comments on: 52 ideas on using social media within HR

By: Karishma Daswani

Karishma Daswani — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:05:35 +0000

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

By: Candice

Candice — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:00:21 +0000

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?

By: Social Media and HR « HR Club Sydney

Social Media and HR « HR Club Sydney — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:58:24 +0000

[...] In the meantime, if you are interested I recommend you have a read of Michael Specht’s blog and his list of 52 Social Media ideas for HR and Recruitment. [...]

By: Social media recruitment strategies

Social media recruitment strategies — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:14:55 +0000

[...] on from the 52 social media ideas for HR I have pulled together a few ideas on ways to improve your organisation’s recruitment [...]

By: Jacob from JobMob

Jacob from JobMob — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:46:37 +0000

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.

By: Bonita Trenwith

Bonita Trenwith — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:32:57 +0000

Web 2.00 Technology site.
Please view at

http://www.peopleonline.com.au

Comments welcome.

By: Michael Specht

Michael Specht — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:21:25 +0000

@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.

By: Matt Bares

Matt Bares — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:44:33 +0000

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?

By: Sarah Nguyen

Sarah Nguyen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:43:06 +0000

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.

By: Michael Specht

Michael Specht — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:53:49 +0000

Steve, Yes you can share it with your students.

Jason thanks!

By: Jason Davis

Jason Davis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:36:42 +0000

Thanks Michael, I put it on RecruitingBlogs.com

By: Steve Boese

Steve Boese — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:53:28 +0000

Michael,

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

By: Michael Specht

Michael Specht — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:25:27 +0000

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

By: thomas shaw

thomas shaw — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:21:08 +0000

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

By: Michael Specht

Michael Specht — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:50:43 +0000

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

By: Jason Davis

Jason Davis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:38:19 +0000

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?