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What The Best Recruitment
Consultants Know About Social
Media

3. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
If you are a recruitment consultant and you aren’t
harnessing the full power of social media, you are
missing out.
At GSR2R we are a rec 2 rec company that
appreciate how important it is to develop skills in
every area especially when it comes to social
networking for business.

4. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
Social media is now such a huge part of most
recruitment professionals’ lives that it gives you one of
the easiest and best routes to engaging with them, and
it can also help you with research on
your market, on your roles,
on your candidates, and
even on what people
are saying about you and
your recruitment agency!

5. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
Top recruitment consultants use social media to
help then connect with; the best people, stay
informed, and market themselves.
You can use every social
including; facebook and Twitter.
network
going
The number one social media platform has to be
LinkedIn. Want to know what to focus on?

6. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
1. Creating a strong LinkedIn network
LinkedIn is about the
most perfect social
network there is for the
recruitment world.

7. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
While on other social networks like Facebook and
Twitter, anything you post is competing with all of
the reader’s other interests for attention; LinkedIn
is all about work and professional development.
People don’t connect with their mothers and add
their holiday photos and pictures of their cat on
LinkedIn.

8. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
They connect with other professionals in their field,
relevant service providers, people they know on a
professional basis, and, in a lot of cases, recruitment
consultants.
LinkedIn is also designed to
make it really easy for
professionals with mutual
acquaintances to get an
introduction to each other,
and for people to endorse
other people’s skills.

9. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
2. Finding candidates on LinkedIn
This means that when you
add someone you have
perhaps helped find a
new job to your LinkedIn
network, you can look at
all of the people they know,
see what kind of skills they have and who has
recommended them, and then ask your contact to
introduce you to them.

10. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
Because your LinkedIn network shows you people
who are connected to everyone you know, it
expands really quickly.
If you find 100 people you know on there, chances
are you will have an extended network of
thousands or even millions of people you can
search and get introductions to, giving you a
whole new way to find candidates.

11. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
2. Promoting yourself on LinkedIn
You can join professional
groups and answer user
questions about your
area of recruitment to
help to establish yourself as a true expert in your field.
You can also get endorsements from colleagues,
clients and people you have helped find new jobs in
the past.

12. What The Best Recruitment Consultants Know
About Social Media
You can list all of your professional qualifications
and have them verified, and you can post your full
career history, effectively giving you a live,
interactive CV complete with references!
You can even link your LinkedIn account to Twitter
and tweet your endorsements and other work
news to your followers for an even wider impact.

13. For more information on Social Media
Recruitment please contact
hello@gsr2r.com

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