Recruiter2014….(Part 1)
This blog is for both recruiters & hiring managers to know the emerging
trends & tricks for recruiting.
Yeah I agree recruiting is not a
rocket science, but it is surely a mix of science, psychology, technology,
marketing & branding and much more. So continuous learning is extremely important
to keep in pace.
Intention of Recruiter2014 (1) is
to share the recruiting knowledge for my dear fellow recruiters or hiring
managers to think beyond the job portal?
Earlier an engineering degree or
MBA was mandatory to get a job. Now a
simple understanding of coding or public speaking can still get a job and job
of satisfaction. Industry is
changing. World is evolving very
fast. If we the recruiters don’t update
ourselves with the latest trends and tricks of hiring then we will lose the race.
Below is just a small share of
information from my leaning for your reference.
Hope you take few points out of this for better hiring techniques.
Recruiter2014 should remember one
thing in mind before getting ready for the challenge i..e.
“If you are not in, you
can’t win”
Do you know?????
www.alexa.com - Analytics engine
for any website. How is it useful for
recruitment? Yes very much. Sitting in your base location, you can
understand the top websites in other countries.
Example, you are in India, you want to hire resources in Germany. Give search for top websites in Germany. You will get the list. Do your job posting in those websites. Or search for profiles from those websites.
If you are planning to start a
branch of your company in other location, then search for the top sites and get
more details about the geography thru this site. For all your first-hand information this is
the place to go.
www.bullhornreach.com / www.bufferapp.com – Place to post jobs at multiple sites. Broadcast open jobs to your social networks
and leading job boards with a single click. Automatically re-post until your
jobs are filled. Reach will immediately surface a shortlist of social media
connections who may be good matches for your open jobs.
www.followerwonk.com
– to search twitter bios. It is Twitter’s analytics tool to find,
Analyze, and Optimize for Social Growth.
Key tool in sourcing using twitter.
Just for your understanding as per the internet source there are close
to 500 million users in twitter & around 200 million out of them are active
users which is more than linkedin
www.linkedin.com
– Most of you would be aware, but still few of my learnings for your
reference. If you want to brand your
company, you may ask your employees to post their photos against the company’s
image. It is for the optimal use of your
own employees as brand ambassadors. Don’t
just keep on posting your jobs, get involved in the discussion. Understand the group needs first before posting
your job. Calculated use of linkedin
will definitely yield better results.
Align your page to company’s employee value page to talk more about the
culture of your company.
www.twitter.com - Upload a photo of you & a small input on
your profile – be a person, not a brand on twitter. If
your hiring is more specific to UK/Europe geography then twitter is the
best. As per industry analytics 80% of
the mobile users are from UK. As you
know mobile is the talk of the town now.
Tweeting about jobs, topics, brands has better and faster reach than PC.
Mobile
Recruiting – As per the google
search & research, email responses takes atleast 72 hours. Average mobile response is less than 5 minutes.
www.facebook.com –
Interesting site rite? Most of you must
be great fan of this. Do you know this can
also be used for hiring or finding the right talent? It is mostly recommended for branding and
indirect hiring. Facebook is known for
cool stuffs. So you need to talk on your
companys cool stuff than jobs. Use
facebook to promote your values & foster your culture. This is a free platform & branding
tool.
www.mailtester.com – Used to
check the validity of mail. It is one of
the great tools for headhunting. Think
that you have full name and know the company where the candidate is working but
just not able to reach out to him. Then
check the availability of his email id thru this website. Example: John Joster working in abc company. Then check for availability of mail id in
this website by trying different options like john.joster@abc.com or john.joster@in.abc , etc
www.stackexchange.com -
This website is for like-minded groups. Something similar to yahoogroups or google
groups, but a dedicated webpage for each user.
It has groups for every kind of people like UX, Sharepoint,Photography,
movies, etc.
www.xing.com – search tool to get more relevant responses. Something similar to linkedin I feel.
www.cybercoders.com – This
is mainly useful for recruiters or hiring managers in other geography than
india. Indian recruiters are yet to catch
up with this website.
Keep in touch.....,more to come..........
Janaki Shantharam
