‘Social media’

2.000 facts & figures about Social Media around the world 2012

In 2011 we presented over 1.000+ facts about social media around the world. Today, this study and 128-slide presentation contains over 2.000 facts & figures about social media in 19 countries. Wow! Topics cover main adoption and usage, interactions of consumers with brands, impact of branded conversations, evolution of mobile and the opportunities for structural […]

10 Tips For Recruiters on Pinterest

In the history of social networks, never has a service risen so far, so fast; and never has a social network started to deliver lucrative customers to business so quickly. [JV1] Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn, and YouTube combined. Here’s a quick start guide for you to tap into the 3rd largest […]

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, […]

A Vision on Sourcing Talent on Social Media

As they appeal to huge numbers of users, social networks are a relevant place for a company to build up a talent pool. Asserting an employer brand online will be all the more effective on targeted web communities whose members are most likely to match the sought-after profiles. The company’s employees, if present on these […]

Launching Google Plus Business Page

Google has unveiled today brand pages for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google’s social network, and of course we were one of the first to try it out and you can see the result here: Recruit2 on Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/108865775393321620539/ But wait there is more! We also created a page for the Recruitment […]

80% of all companies use Social Media to recruit

Is recruiting via social media effective? And how do you determine wether those efforts are succesful? That’s the question being asked as more and more businesses are investing in increasing amounts of social media recruiting.  With no standard means of measurement, there’s a wide variety of goals and metrics used to define the ROI of […]

“Social Networking Ever More Critical to Job Search Success”

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 […]

Video: Social Media Recruitment in Plain English

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!

Social Media Revolution 2010 (video)

Erik Qualman is the man behind a great series of videos in which the the development, in facts and figures, of social media is beautifully portrait. It had been a while since he published his last video, Social Media ROI in November 2009, but now there is an updated version of the original video ‘Social […]