I was have a chat with an old colleague this afternoon and we were discussing where social media has gone in the last few years, specifically around recruitment. Which got me thinking. You know where has social media gone? This then took me back in time to some of the crazy ideas I had aboutContinue reading “4 years on some thoughts”
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ATC Social Media Presentation
Here is my presentation from the ATC Social Media event. My main messages that I hope people took away were: Using social media for marketing is ok, but engagement and community is better Engagement and community is harder than just a Twitter account or Facebook Social Media is not easy, nor is it free TrueContinue reading “ATC Social Media Presentation”
Social media and the elephant in the room
Once again a longtime between drinks, however this post might start to demonstrate why. For many months I have felt that something is not right in the world of social media. The problem was I have not been able to put my finger on the issue. I happened to read a post over at SocialContinue reading “Social media and the elephant in the room”
Who owns your brand in the social media world?
Tomorrow morning I am doing a presentation for MyCareer and some of their clients looking at the wonderful topic of: Who owns your brand in a social media world An interesting topic some might think more interesting have a job board promote social media, more on that later. While I have a large amount ofContinue reading “Who owns your brand in the social media world?”
10 days to go!
Only 10 days to go before the early bird pricing for this year’s ATC Social Media conference expires! If you are thinking of going, and why wouldn’t you, register now to save 20% on your registration. What will you get from coming along? Well other than listening to me natter on about mobile recruiting youContinue reading “10 days to go!”
Social Media for Recruitment
One of the things that has been going on in the background for the last couple of months has been the building of a social media for recruitment training program, in partnership with InsideJob. The program consists of three modules; one hour webinar, 1 day introduction and 2 day advance course and is structured toContinue reading “Social Media for Recruitment”
Mobile Recruiting
At the upcoming ATC Social Media conference (early bird prices until 30 September) I will be talking briefly about mobile recruiting. A topic I know is a little strange to some people, but I think effective use of mobile technology is going to become a critical part of a recruiters toolkit. Let’s face it mobileContinue reading “Mobile Recruiting”
Who owns your employer brand?
Last week while I was at ATC Sydney there was lots and lots of talk about employer brands and who really controls them in today’s social media world. For example Steve Fogarty, Recruiting Captain, from adidas in North America covered the topic highlighting that recruiters need to think more like marketers to attract top talent,Continue reading “Who owns your employer brand?”
Employee Engagement and Social Media
Over the last 2 weeks I have been giving a series of presentations looking at how social media (and Enterprise 2.0) can drive employee engagement. While the slides are available on slideshare for download I wanted to give a bit of context. As part of preparing the presentation I came across a presentation by SusanContinue reading “Employee Engagement and Social Media”
Social media as part of background checking (Part 4)
Finally part four! In case you missed the reason we are here have a look at the last few posts. In the first post we looked at laying a foundation for the discussion and about how social media allows you access to a unique view on a candidate’s character. In part two I discussed the issue of culturalContinue reading “Social media as part of background checking (Part 4)”
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