Recruiters and Hiring Managers have a few options for advertising jobs on the LinkedIn network: Using status updates. Your direct connections will see this update on their homepage. Post jobs in LinkedIn groups you are member of. Promote jobs via the LinkedIn profile i.e. write in your profile headline or summary that you are looking […]
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Are you curious when you created your LinkedIn profile? Via LinkedIn Settings you can view the date in the top right corner: Did you also know that when you view your, or someone elses, profile you can see the member counter in the URL? In my case the URL to my profile is http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=254015. This […]
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, today announced two million members in the Netherlands, putting the total of Dutch professionals now on the site at more than 50%. The Netherlands is the network’s most engaged market worldwide including more than 32.000 Dutch LinkedIn Groups. By joining groups, Dutch professionals are participating in interesting discussions, gaining […]
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The outcome of the third-annual social recruiting survey from Jobvite, the findings underscore the many reasons job seekers need to incorporate online social networking into their job searches. Not surprisingly, LinkedIn is the most widely used social recruiting channel amongst HR / Recruiters with a 78% score. Companies who are actively recruiting in 2010 use […]
If you are really seriously want to use your (online) social network a 100% complete profile is a must. We pay much attention to this in our book “Career Management via LinkedIn” as its will give you a strong and essential basis for succesful networking online. According to LinkedIn figures, a 100% complete profile will […]
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In the style of Common Craft videos, Silkroad, a provider of talent management solutions, made a great video about Using Social Media for Employment. In Plain English and in a fun entertaining way this video shows the power of networking via Social Media versus the 60’s in relation to recruitment. Super!
I was looking for good metaphors related to Recruitment and Employer Branding recently. I considered using a metaphor about hunters and farmers for this purpose. For example talking about variation in crops, planting, watering, fertilizing, amount of sunlight, harvesting, etc. But it is really striking how good an analogy can be made between Recruitment and […]