‘Facebook’

Advanced sourcing: diversity recruiting (tip #2)

Search engines are not very intelligent and therefore it is often difficult to find what you are looking for. Every Recruiter is by now familiar with boolean search commands but another tactic or approach can yield dramatic results. In this series of advanced sourcing tips for Recruiters, I show some well-known and lesser-known search techniques […]

Everything you need to know about the new Facebook jobboard

Today Facebook launched the Social Jobs Partnership’s (SJP) application [https://www.facebook.com/socialjobs/app_417814418282098], a new tool that will make it easier for people on Facebook to find and share employment opportunities. The new SJP app is a central location hosted on the world’s largest social network, giving users free access to more than 1.7 million US jobs in […]

Does Social Recruitment Monitor rank the best pages?

No, but the new Social Recruitment Monitor does contain an interesting list of Facebook Career Pages from the Top 200 firms in the world. According to its press release: The Social Recruitment Monitor is the world’s first online tool to accurately measure and rank the social media recruitment activities of employers on social media channels […]

Everything you wanted to know about Facebook – Facts and Figures 2012

Did you know that Facebook is responsible for 20% of all US Internet traffic? That might explain why they’re worth approximately 100 Billion Dollars these days. Here’s a list of the most compelling facts and figures about Facebook.com. 901 million monthly active users. Most popular page: Facebook, with 67,385,331 fans. 300 million photos uploaded per day, […]

Selection 2.0: The Social Interview Case Study

You are most likely using social media for recruiting. And, according to many surveys, you are probably also using it for pre-screening applicants. But are you using it for the selection of candidates too? Digital Advertising Agency R/GA wanted to try a new kind of job interview: The Social Interview. They asked summer internship candidates […]

Facebook has more job seeking volume overall in US

A new national survey from Jobvite reveals more than 22 million Americans used social networks to find their most recent job opportunity – up 7.7 million from last year’s survey. One in six members of the workforce say an online social network was one of the sources they used to find a job, and those […]

10 facts why Facebook matters for Employer Branding

So you don’t have a Facebook Fan Page yet? And you don’t have a LIKE button on your Career Site or Job Pages? Think again. Here are 10 quick facts you should know about consumer behavior on Facebook.

Facebook Like for recruiting?

The Facebook Like button was released 1 year ago and has been a great success. According to Facebook, 10.000 new websites are adding this social tool every day. More than 2.5 million websites have integrated with Facebook, including 80% of U.S. Top 100 websites and over 50% of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites. The result […]