Mobile, Video & Social Media in Recruitment

Using Online Video In Recruitment

Thanks to Bill Boorman organising #TRULondon last week I was able to meet some great people from overseas whose blogs I have been reading for a number of years.

In particular I was able to catch up with Jim Stroud - www.jimstroud.com and talk to him about using online video in recruitment. Jim was a Track Leader for the first social media track of the day (where he talked about using YouTube for recruiting) and then joined the online video track later in the morning.

In this video I ask Jim about his views about using video for recruiting, what the benefits are and what he would suggest for Recruiters looking to get started with online video.  

Mike

http://www.web-based-recruitment.com

Social Media In Recruitment - REC Report

While I was away speaking at the first Online Recruitment Conference in South Africa last week (I will post more details about the Conference next week) the REC issued a Research Report about the use of Social Media In Recruitment to its members.

The report came about as a result of the First Social Media in Recruitment Conference that I organised last July which Roger Tweedy,  Director of Research for the REC attended.

All the speakers from the July 2009 Conference were asked to contribute to the research which contains some very useful and valuable advice.

The contents of the report includes:

Introduction - Roger Tweedy
An Overview of Social Media  - Mike Taylor
The Social Media Amateur - Bill Boorman
LinkedIn for Recruiters - Mark Williams
Developing a Corporate Social Networking Strategy - Paul Harrison
The Future of Social Recruiting - Matt Alder
Top 10 Tips
Glossary

You can find a link to the report at the REC web site:

http://www.rec.uk.com/about-recruitment/research/bookshop/socialmedia

Mike

http://www.web-based-recruitment.com

New Online Audio Interview Service For Recruiters

I am pleased to announce our new Online Audio Interview service for Recruiters. 

The new service consists of recording and producing audio interviews with representatives from a company so that job seekers can learn more about their organisation. 

The audio interviews are then made available for job seekers to listen to via the recruiting companies web site as well as being distributed through the major podcast and video sharing sites such as iTunes and YouTube.

Up to now visitors to recruitment web sites have always been able to read about job vacancies but now they can listen to someone who already works there. This is a great way to communicate what it is like to work at a company, what opportunities there are for progression and talk in more detail about a specific vacancy.

With thousands of jobs being posted on the Internet every day it offers a way for companies to stand out from the crowd. If you add the fact that the interviews are submitted to iTunes, YouTube and other audio/video sites this can greatly increase the reach and visibility of a companies job vacancies.   
 

For more information visit:

http://www.web-based-recruitment.com/online-audio-interviews.htm

 

 

Thanks

Mike