Very recently, I happened to attend a recruiter’s conference in Nashville, and it was truly a great experience. I interacted with recruiters who gave me an insight on how we can use social media and niche job board portals for recruiting a candidate. They opine that it helps them in gauzing the candidate’s level of online activity.
I however, had a few observations of my own to make after the conference was over:-
- Social Media Curtailance by the company is futile: Companies instead of curtailing social media activities of the employees should insist on modulating a communication policy that covers all forms of employee communication in the organization as social media activity differs from organization to organization.
- Desktops are out and Mobiles are in: – People nowadays are constantly on the touch, wherever they go via mobile. Being an entirely new untapped channel, Service providers, job portals, recruiters should take due care that their applications can be accessed from the touch of a phone by the person.
- Stagnant Job portals will eventually fade away: – Job portals are in a unique position, as they can keep on their market expansion constantly. However the challenge lies for these sites, as they have to constantly keep on integrating social media activities into their website for a higher word of mouth in the social media recruitment market.
- Blogging is fine, make sure you ensure your authenticity and uniqueness: – Many people, organizations like blogging actively, however the challenge lies for them to maintain a neutral stance with the demography, they are operating from. Many organizations, people blog to brand their product/service/themselves to ensure a higher retention space. The core intention behind blogging is people recognize us for what we write and for how we write.
