Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Bill Vick from XtremeRecruiting.tv about Recruitment, Technology and Demographics. After the interview, I started thinking about how much social media plays a role in our everyday lives. Here I am blogging, not knowing if anyone will read it, but nonetheless, I’m on here, on a social media site.
A typical day for me starts out logging on to ERE.net, LinkedIn, Facebook and RecruitingBlogs. For example, today I’ve already connected with a former colleague, a client, three friends from high school that I haven’t spoken to since graduation day, four prospects, an industry guru and my sister. It occurred to me that in the hour I spent moseying through my collection of social networks, I’ve already been more productive than I would have been without belonging to those networks.
I think this term, “relationship recruiting”, sums up the way recruiters are able to network with individuals in the marketplace in an informal and raw atmosphere. Now, I know that many recruiters are already on social networks with the goal of recruiting individuals. But I also know that there are a lot more not utilizing these valuable tools. For the ones that do use social media to recruit or practice “relationship recruiting”, I wonder how well it is working for them.
This has inspired me to develop a program titled: The Recruiter’s Guide to Navigating Social Media. I’m half way done, so if you want to see it, email me and I’ll forward it to you.
Kristingissaro@gmail.com
