5. Trends in Social Recruitment - Recruiter With the recession, not only were there fewer jobs – but the number of staff in the recruitment department within corporates diminished as well Recruiters and staffing firms have begun to focus on social recruiting – a more cost effective recruiting methodology with satisfactory results LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook are the current frontrunners in terms of sourcing candidates in the social space “Throughout 2011, social recruiting will continue to provide employers and job seekers with a clear understanding of job qualifications, requirements and expectations, resulting in continuous return on investment, increased network building, and productive referral engagement.” 2011 Social Recruiting Trends and Strategies, Cachinko
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7. Facebook was used as a form of recruitment 55% of the time, with a 27.5% success rate
10. 6% use virtual interviews regularlySource: Recruiting Trends 2010-2011, Jobvite Research
11. Trends in Social Recruitment - Recruiter Going Mobile In line with the global trend, candidates are looking to recruiters to provide access to mobile tools. Research conducted by GradX.net (RSA) suggests that grads, the next generation to hit the talent market, are using more mobile online recruitment tools than ever before due to increased internet access and availability. They remark that it’s easy and flexible in terms of time and location. Employer Branding Companies are realising that attracting top talent is a competitive space – and should market themselves to candidates and showcase their values, culture and vision. The right talent is therefore attracted to your company. Passive Talent Social media allows for interaction and relationship building with passive or latent talent – the superstars that are not actively seeking jobs. Social media allows access to these elusive creatures – who are open to relevant opportunities.
12. Trends in Social Recruitment - Candidate The Rise of the Millenials Millenials are entering the job market in their droves – in fact to the tune of 93million in the US alone over the next four years! These individuals use social media as a means of communicating, connecting, sharing and collaborating – and they bring this ethos into the workplace. Therefore as prospective employers, if you are not communicating in their language you will not attract this talent. Self Directed Career Management Following on from the rise of the Millenials is the fact that these young people direct their own careers – they take action, seek out employers they want to work for and put themselves out there to be found, using social media extensively in this endeavour. Personal Branding As with all consumer brands – millenials see themselves as individual brands. In the social media space it is important to build your brand, put your best foot forward and manage your reputation as you would a company or product brand. They do this in their personal and professional capacity. Facebook profiles, LinkedIn profiles, blogs, twitter accounts all portray their personal brands.
15. Context and Introduction NJS is a mash up of existing social media, creating a multi dimensional, multi media professional based space to represent an individual to prospective employees Aimed primarily at the millennials or Digital Natives – born with a mouse in their hand Now entering the job market – and are forced to represent themselves in a one dimensional text based way In the US alone there will be more than 93 million Millennials employed in various organizations by 2014! They use technology – whether you as an organisation offer it or not Email is a thing of the past within this target audience
16. What is NoJoShmo.com? NoJoShmo.com is a multi dimensional, interactive, community building, networking based professional space – the next generation of job boards Aimed at millenials, career driven individuals who are accustomed to interacting in a multi faceted manner with the onset of Facebook, LinkedIn, IM, Skype, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and a multitude of other environments NoJoShmo.com is about building a professional space, using all the power of Web 3.0, which is maintained for the remainder of an individuals career – with new information added all the time It is a networking platform which allows individuals to connect with each other, as well as offer the opportunity for referee’s to post references as well as to share their interests by RSS feeds and aggregated link sites
17. What is NoJoShmo.com? From a company perspective, it offers unprecedented access to candidates presenting themselves in a multimedia fashion – offering a wealth of insight into the individual, as opposed to a flat text based resume’ The powerful search ensures that the filtering process is quick and super efficient – getting companies from zero to a short list in record time by using the “add to basket” functionality The screening interview can become a thing of the past with the ability to request a short video response to pertinent questions Not only will it save money – but will improve the efficiency of the recruitment process
20. Direct recruitmentBranded frontends to NJS will be implemented for DAV, Premier and Quest NJS will be the applicant handling solution for Adfusion initiatives with Skillstream which jointly offer and end to end solution to identified corporate customers Where applicable, operating companies can use the power of NJS in their business. The powerful matching and search functionality within NJS can lead to efficiency gains in these operations All these initiatives will drive the strategy of establishing the definitive talent pool for Adcorp in the South African market
