Mobile, Video & Social Media in Recruitment

2012 Social Media in Recruitment Conference Programme Confirmed

I am pleased to confirm that our conference programme for the fourth Social Media in Recruitment Conference on the 19th April 2012 has been confirmed. Once again the conference has been designed to help Recruiters, Recruitment Agencies, Recruitment Advertising Agencies, Job Boards and Recruitment Industry suppliers get the most from using Social Media in Recruitment.

We we will be featuring the latest social recruiting trends, case studies and best practice examples. So whether you are recruiting in the private or public sector there is something in the programme for everyone, covering both beginners and experienced users of social media.

Conference Subject Areas:

The subject areas to be covered at the Conference will include:

 

• Social media in recruitment – past, present and future
•  How companies have embraced Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to recruit top talent
• The best ways to build a talent pipeline for future hires
• How job seekers use social media when job hunting and what they expect to see from employers
• How to develop and manage a global social media strategy
• How to use social media to engage with potential hires and develop talent communities
• Tools, tips & techniques to help you manage your daily social media activities
• How social media can make your company stand out from the crowd and become irresistible!
• Previous delegates social media success stories
• How to incorporate mobile as part of a recruitment strategy
• Social Media Question Time

Full details of the programme can be found here.

Exhibition Area & Sponsorship

As part of the conference there will also be an exhibition area where delegates will be able to talk to companies and see demonstrations of various social media related products and services.

Getting involved as a sponsor or exhibitor at the 2012 Social Media in Recruitment Conference offers forward-thinking companies the opportunity to promote their products and services to a targeted audience and at the same time be seen as supporting one of the major social media events of the year.

£50 Discount Until 31st January 2012

Any conference tickets purchased by the 31st January 2012 will include a £50 discount. Group ticket discounts are also available.

Click here to visit the ticket informaton page

If you have any questions about the conference then please let me know?

Thanks

Mike Taylor

How To Use QR Codes In Recruitment

Over the last few weeks I have noticed an increasing trend of using QR Codes (Quick Response Codes) in recruitment.

A QR code (Quick Response code) is a two-dimensional code that can be read by a dedicated QR barcode reader or a mobile phone that contains a barcode reader.

If you have a barcode reader on your phone then as an example if you scan the QR Code below you will be taken to the home page of our Mobile & Video in Recruitment Conference.

However, you don't have to just link a QR Code to a web site. You can instead link it to:

• some text
• a phone number
• send an SMS message

I have written an article showing some examples over our Mobile & Video in Recruitment web site.

Please feel free to share your experiences of using QR codes in recruitment 

Mike

Web Based Recruitment

Two Major Online Recruitment Conferences For 2011 Announced

2011 Social Media in Recruitment Conference

 
I am pleased to announce that Web Based Recruitment will be running the Social Media in Recruitment Conference in London on Thursday 7th April 2011.

This will be the third Social Media In Recruitment Conference we have run and will again be a mixture of expert speakers, case studies and success stories from previous years delegates.

The conference programme will be released in the next couple of weeks. To be notified when there are updates to the site, including when the conference programme details are released, visit the Social Media in Recruitment web site and enter your email address in the top right hand corner where it says "Get Updates By Email "

2011 Mobile & Video in Recruitment Conference

On Thursday the 20th October 2011 we will be running our second Mobile and Video in Recruitment Conference in London.

Web Based Recruitment ran the world's first Mobile and Video in Recruitment Conference at the end of September 2010 which was very well received.

The Mobile & Video in Recruitment Conference programme will be released after the 2011 Social Media in Recruitment Conference has taken place. To keep up to date with Mobile and Video, including being notified when the conference programme is published, visit the Mobile & Video in Recruitment  web site and enter your email address in the top right hand corner where it says "Get Updates By Email "

If you have any questions about either of our 2011 Conferences then please get in touch.

Mike Taylor

 

YouTube To Speak At The Mobile And Video In Recruitment Conference

In my previous post I announced the first Mobile and Video in Recruitment Conference - a sister Conference to our highly successful  Social Media In Recruitment Conferences held in July 2009 and April 2010.

I am now pleased to confirm that YouTube will be speaking at the Conference which takes place on the 28th September in London. Details of the conference programme can be found here.

Both Mobile and Video are starting to become an important extra marketing channel for companies to promote their jobs and brands and we have some excellent examples during the Conference of how they are being successfully used today.

Full details can be found at the Conference web site, with a saving of £100 if you book by the 27th August.

Mike 

Video Feedback from the 2010 Social Media in Recruitment Conference

On the 22nd April 2010 in London I organised and hosted the 2010 Social Media In Recruitment Conference.

We had 250 registered delegates, some great speakers and a very lively following on Twitter - #SMIR.

I will do a more detailed post next week but in the meantime here is a great video asking what the delegates thought of the Conference courtesy of AllTheTopBananas

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the video and see you next year!

Mike Taylor

Web-Based-Recruitment.com

Social Media In Recruitment Success Story - Elkie Holland - Prospectus IT Recruitment

With the Social Media In Recruitment Conference only four weeks away I am publishing some Speaker Preview Interviews in advance of the Conference so that people can see who is speaking and what they will be talking about. 

Elkie was a delegate at the first Conference in July 2009 and I have invited her back to talk about how social media has impacted her business since attending (and implementing) her first conference.

If you are wondering whether Social Media could work in your recruitment business then Elkie has some great information to share in this interview, and lots more information to share at the Conference on the 22nd April 2010.

Mike

www.Web-Based-Recruitment.com

Social Media and Generation Y Job Seekers with Lucian Tarnowski - Founder - Brave New Talent

Lucain Tarnowski , Founder of Brave New Talent, the website that connects people to employers via a social network, will be speaking about Generation Y Job Seekers at the upcoming Social Media In Recruitment Conference on the 22nd April in London.

I caught up with Lucian and asked him to explain what he would be covering at the Conference, including details of any case studies he will be presenting.

A week after the video was recorded it was announced (3rd March 2010) that Lucian had been named among the Young Global Leaders for 2010 by the World Economic Forum. At the age of 26, he is the youngest Young Global Leader in Europe. Congratulations to Lucian!

Mike

Web-Based-Recruitment.com

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

Round Up of South Africa's First Online Recruitment Conference

I had the pleasure of speaking at South Africa's first Online Recruitment Conference last week in Cape Town, organised by Kris Jarzebowski , CEO of www.CareerJunction.co.za

There were 110 people at the Conference which was held at the the same venue where the draw for the FIFA World Cup was made at the end of last year. 

There was a great line-up of speakers and it was a well balanced programme to cater for both Corporate and Recruitment Agency recruiters. You can view the full Conference programme here .

In my presentation I talked about setting up the Online Recruitment Mix for 2010 and beyond. Straight after me was Stephen Newton, Head Of Google, South Africa.

I believe Kris is looking to run a second conference but this time it will probably be in Johannesburg?
 
I caught up with Kris after the Conference had just finished to ask him about Online Recruitment in South Africa and how he felt the Conference went. There was also an interesting link to JobSite and Keith Potts in the UK!

This was my first visit to Cape Town and the Western Cape area of South Africa. It certainly is a beautiful part of the world and well worth a visit!

Mike

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

2010 Online Recruitment Trends & Predictions

I was asked the other day what I thought the trends would be in online recruitment during 2010 so I thought I would share them here on my blog.

 

Online Video

 

I think 2010 will be a big year for online video. It has never been easier to make a video and upload it, especially with the new range of handheld pocket HD camcorders. You can literally shoot some video, plug it into your computer and upload it straight into YouTube (as I did with this video last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh5atb5a-pM

 

Whilst videos taken with these types of cameras are not your typical professional, corporate videos, I feel that they will still have a place in recruitment.

 

Social Media

 

I think that this could be a key year for social media in recruitment.

 

There are more and more examples available where companies are using social media successfully and I expect the number of success stories to continue. However, there are still a lot of companies who haven't started to use any form of social media yet as part of their online recruiting activities.

 

It reminds me of when I first got involved with online recruitment some 10 years ago. Despite the benefits of online recruitment companies still didn't take the plunge straight away and gradually got involved some years later. I have a feeling it will be the same with social media!

 

Mobile Recruitment

 

It seems that use of mobile in recruitment has been the "next big thing"for years!

 

I do feel that specific job related applications for phones (not just the iPhone) will become more popular this year as companies and job boards continue to roll out their own applications. 

 

With the rise in the number of smart enabled phones (where you can access the internet on your mobile) this has meant that web sites can be accessed anytime, anywhere. Also,some phones have the full HTML browser version on the handset now which means you can view web pages as they appear on your laptop or PC which makes it a far more pleasant job hunting experience than before.

 

So these are my three main predictions for 2010. Please feel free to agree, disagree or comment below.

 

Happy New Year!

 

Mike

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

 

South Africa's First Online Recruitment Conference Announced

South Africa's first Online Recruitment Conference will  take place in Cape Town on the 11th and 12th February 2010.

The Conference is being hosted by Career Junction, whose CEO - Kris Jarzebowski - flew to the UK in July to attend the UK's first Social Media In Recruitment Conference that I organised.

I am fortunate to be speaking at Kris's Conference which I am really looking forward to.  So, it looks like I am off to South Africa in World Cup year, just a shame that the football starts four months after I get back!

For the Conference details and Programme you can view the PDF at:  South Africa's first Online Recruitment Conference

Mike

Google and Linkedin To Speak At The UK’s Second Social Media In Recruitment Conference - 22nd April 2010 - London

I am pleased to announce that both Google and LinkedIn will be speaking at our second Social Media In Recruitment Conference in London on the 22nd April 2010.

The interest in the use of social media is still growing and the conference will once again have a range of expert speakers to help recruiters get the most from using social media in recruitment.

The main subject areas for the conference are as follows:

• Strategies for using LinkedIn as part of your online recruitment plans.

• Insights from Google to help you recruit using social media.

• How to maximise the use of Facebook pages as a recruitment tool for your company. 

• Key strategies for using Twitter effectively in recruitment, including the use of automated tools.

• How online communities can play a part in your social media recruiting strategies.

• The legal issues surrounding social media and employment.

• Social media strategies for Generation Y job seekers.

Success Stories

There will also be contributions from delegates who attended the July 2009 Conference. They will share what social media strategies they have implemented since attending the first Social Media in Recruitment Conference.

The full  programme can be found on the conference web site at: http://www.socialmediainrecruitment.com

I hope to see you there on the 22nd April 2010!

Mike

2010 Social Media In Recruitment Conference Announced

I am pleased to announce that the UK’s second Social Media In Recruitment Conference will take place on Thursday 22nd April 2010 at the British Library in London.

Having organised the UK’s first ever Social Media in Recruitment Conference in July 2009 I am looking forward to helping Corporate Recruiters, Recruitment Agencies, Recruitment Advertising Agencies, Job Boards and Recruitment Industry suppliers get the most from the use of Social Media in Recruitment.

There were over 150 people at the first Conference which was a clear indication in the interest in Social Media. Next years conference will be held some nine months after the first one which means that there will be plenty of new things to talk about and discuss.  In addition to the speaker slots (including case studies) we will also be having an interactive discussion panel and a chance for delegates to share their Social Media success stories.

2009 Conference Feedback

Some of the positive feedback from the July 2009 conference included:

“Extremely worthwhile, well delivered, relevant and beneficial”
“Good, thought provoking content”
“Well organised and great speakers, very informative”
“Very interesting – heard some great things to take back to my company”
“Excellent – ideal for my new business and great ROI”

2010 Conference Programme

The full conference programme, which will again feature an excellent range of speakers covering all areas of Social Media, will be published in the next few weeks on the 2010 Social Media In Recruitment Conference web site. Whether you are already using Social Media in recruitment, or are looking at ways to introduce Social Media into your organisation, there will be plenty of information and strategies shared at the Conference.

For further information please visit the Conference web site at: www.socialmediainrecruitment.com

Thanks

Mike

Number One Tips For Social Media In Recruitment

Here are some "number one tips" to help you with Social Media In Recruitment.

The video clips were taken at the recent Social Media In Recruitment Conference in London and include tips from Josh Smith (Facebook), Lisa Scales (TalentOnView.com), Lucian Tarnowski (BraveNewTalent.com), Bill Boorman (Bill Boorman Consultancy), Andy Headworth (Sirona Consulting) , Paul Harrison (Carve Consulting) and Alan Whitford (RCEuro.com).

Add Your Tips

What are your "number one tips"? Feel free to add your tips by posting a comment below.

2010 Social Media In Recruitment Conference

To register an interest in the 2010 conference email: info@socialmediainrecruitment.com

Thanks

Mike Taylor
Web-Based-Recruitment.com

Mike Taylor Interviews James Caan about Social Media in Recruitment

Last Friday I interviewed James Caan about the impact that the Internet has had on recruitment from when James first started his first successful recruitment businesses (Alexander Mann) in 1985.

I also asked James for his views on Social Media and the impact that it has had in recruitment.

For more information about James and his companies visit his official web site www.James-Caan.com where you can also find details of his Autobiography: The Real Deal - From Brick Lane to Dragons' Den.

Thanks

Mike

www.Web-Based-Recruitment.com

UK’s First Social Media In Recruitment Conference

 

I am pleased to announce that I am organising the UK's first Social Media In Recruitment Conference. The conference will be held in London on the 16th July 2009.

The conference has been programmed to help Recruiters understand exactly what Social Media is and how it can be of benefit to them.

There is currently a lot of interest in social media and how it can be used effectively in recruitment. However, there is also a lot of confusion about how get started and therefore the conference will focus on helping Recruiters understand exactly what social media is and how it can be used effectively. 

Even if a Recruiter has no prior knowledge of social media there will be plenty of information and examples of how social media is currently being used in recruitment. This will give Recruiters the confidence to consider where social media could be used in their own organisations. 

Conference Web Site: www.socialmediainrecruitment.com

You can also keep up to date via Twitter at www.twitter.com/socialmediarec 

I hope to see you there!

Mike Taylor
www.web-based-recruitment.com

 

Getting Started With Twitter

I've just finished reading a new book called Twitter Power by Joel Comm.

The book starts by giving a good overview of the social media landscape and then goes into detail about what Twitter is and how it can be of benefit to you.

The book then goes on to talk about how to set up your account, how to tweet, how to follow people and how to get people to follow you.

There are then different chapters on how to use Twitter to build your brand and how to use third party tools with Twitter.

If you are just starting out with Twitter then I would definitely recommend the book. Even if you have been twittering for a while now there are some useful hints and tips in the book.

Well worth a read!

Mike

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