NEWS - How to Use Social Media to Acquire Staff

Baselinemag.com posted a pretty good article covering the attributes social networking can offer your staffing efforts.
It covers LinkedIn, FaceBook and Twitter.
Check the article out here.
Let us know your thoughts! Has your company started using social networking?

NON-TRADITIONAL RECRUITMENT - Draft FCB Accountant Video

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I stumbled across a nice video put together about hiring an accountant in a non-traditional manner. I wrote about this in an earlier post but I still wanted to include the video.

The video can be found at: http://draftfcb.at/bank-transfer-job-ad/

Via: jobadder.com/blog.aspx

Previous related entry:

http://patriotadvertising.blogspot.com/2009/12/non-traditional-recruitment-speak-to.html

RECRUITMENT - ERE: Emerging Talent Acquisition Trends For 2010: Are You Ready for a Roller Coaster?

ERE has posted a series of three articles about new trends in talent acquisition for 2010.

It covers quite a bit including how social networking will probably be impacting recruitment, how the war for talent is going to increase along with topics that should come up but probably will remain on the back burner.

What are your thoughts?

Here are the links:

http://www.ere.net/2010/01/04/emerging-talent-acquisition-trends-for-2010-are-you-ready-for-a-roller-coaster-part-i-of-iii/

http://www.ere.net/2010/01/05/emerging-talent-acquisition-trends-for-2010-are-you-ready-for-a-roller-coaster-part-ii-of-iii/

http://www.ere.net/2010/01/06/emerging-talent-acquisition-trends-for-2010-are-you-ready-for-a-roller-coaster-part-iii-of-iii/

NON-TRADITIONAL RECRUITMENT - Speak to your potential candidates in their element

Click the picture to enlarge and get a full description of what the agency did.

This is a great recruitment technique used to find an accountant. Yes, they might be pulling from competition but the idea behind it is rather non-traditional. What are your thoughts?

One way to recruit is to actually get out there and find a way to speak to your candidates in their element. Done the right way, it might surprise them enough to spur the curiosity to check out your offer.

via: adsoftheworld.com

INTERNET - CareerBuilder.com Healthcare Virtual Career Fair

CareerBuilder is hosting it's second major job fair which is going to focus on Healthcare.

CareerBuilder uses the platform developed by UNISFAIR for their layout and designs. Thoughts on the platform? It seems to integrate a variety of items into the job fair and it cuts down the operating cost by bringing in more and more employers. What kind of results have you seen in the past from virtual job fairs?

CareerBuilder.com Healthcare Virtual Career Fair

Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009Time: 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. EDT

Registration: http://www.careerbuilder.com/virtualcareerfairs

http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Jobs/JobDetails.aspx?job_did=J8B69N5XXX2DPB9JTFH

VIDEO - Leveraging ROI on a Recruiting Video

http://www.ere.net/2009/03/13/leveraging-roi-on-a-recruiting-video/

Came across this article on Friday but didn't have a chance to post about it.

It lists some great questions to ask yourself before producing / during and after production of a recruitment video. Key points it covers is what messages are delivered, where it should be displayed, does it sound scripted, did you show your current employees and will you use Twitter to get the word out?

RECRUITING - Recruiting With Little or No Money - Tools and Ideas to Consider

This is a great article about how to advertise and recruit on a limited budget. It covers a wide variety of tactics from contacting previous employees, attending professional events and having your employees recruit for you to teaming up with similar firms to help share the cost of recruiting events.

http://www.ere.net/2009/01/12/recruiting-with-little-or-no-money-tools-and-ideas-to-consider/#more-5651