Social media is the present and the future. It’s fun, it’s social (obviously) and most people who you ask are on Facebook and Twitter. However, does it have any place in recruitment?

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140 Characters or Less-Is the Social
CV The Future of Recruitment?

3. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
Social media is the present and the future.
It’s fun, it’s social (obviously) and most people
who you ask are on Facebook and Twitter.
However, does it have any place in recruitment?
There’s no getting away from the fact that social
media for recruiters and for candidates is a
hugely powerful tool and by not using it, you could
be missing out on a wealth of potential candidates
and clients.

4. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
The Social CV is becoming big business
Many job hunters are
creating social CVs to;
generate an online
presence, stand out from
the crowd and demonstrate
what they can do.

5. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
Social CVs can include videos, websites and
Facebook pages with some applicants even
going as far as to cram their CV into a 140
character tweet.
This list is not exhaustive, social CVs created by
ambitious candidates are becoming increasingly
more creative with how they advertise
themselves to recruiters.

6. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
How exactly is this Relevant to Online Recruiters?
Social CVs are great for
recruiters because they give
you the chance to check out
your candidate before inviting
them to interview.
It’s saving you time, the candidate time and usually gives
you a good indication of what someone is like before you
even meet them.

7. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
If you like what you see online, there’s a good
chance you will like them in person.
You can often find out far more about someone
from their social media presence than you ever
could from a two page word document.
If potential employees are putting their social CVs
out there online to be seen, why shouldn’t
recruiters take advantage?

8. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
Most decent recruiters know
LinkedIn is a well-known
and established site used
in recruiting and is useful
for building connections
and networking.
What about the less obvious social media and social
networking sites ?

9. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
Did you know that when it comes to finding great
candidates you can use; Twitter, Google+ and
Facebook with apps such as BranchOut.
Many recruiters are already posting their jobs on
Facebook and Twitter, as well as looking for
potential employees on these sites.

10. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
Recruiters are now able to use sponsored tweets
and pages, and target them at specific groups of
people.
The great thing for recruiters about these
sponsored updates and pages is that they come
up in the activity feed alongside the usual status
updates of friends and followers, making them
difficult for your ideal candidate to miss.

11. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
Though social media and all its various platforms can
be mutually beneficial tool potential employees
need to be aware that their
social media presence
can very much work for or
against them.
For example, the recent Facebook
timeline update lays bare a user’s full social history.

12. 140 Characters or Less-Is the Social CV The
Future of Recruitment?
If left public, a recruiter could easily read everything
their potential candidate has written and it may not
always be favourable.
From the recruiter’s point of view though, this could
be a good thing!
As social media is growing more popular, it seems a
mutually beneficial tool for both recruiters and job
seekers alike.

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