“Secret” Tools and Tips to Manage Your Social Media Recruiting

Do you use social media to help you recruit candidates for your company? If so, do you find that it takes a lot of your time, time you sometimes feel is “wasted” because you feel you spend far too much of it recruiting via social media channels but end up with too few candidate “gems” to show for it?

You’re not alone. Many recruiters lament that working with social media on their recruiting and sourcing efforts can take up to three hours a day (more than one-quarter of an 8-hour workday), according to an interview fromHRVirtualCafe.com.

Some tips and automation tools are summarized below:

  • First, make sure your own LinkedIn profile is complete and keep it updated. Make your status be what is known as an “open networker” (this means that you accept anyone who wants asks to become a connection).
  • Make sure the type of positions you recruit and/or your recruiting sector (IT, Finance, Sales, etc.) is prominent on our profile. When it comes to keeping track of your job openings, the article recommends a tool known as the Bitly Bundle. This allows you to keep all of your job openings in the Bitly Bundle at the top of your LinkedIn profile.
  • If you aren’t using them yet, check out HootSuite and TweetDeck. They can help you manage and schedule your postings (tweets, updates, etc.) over a variety of social media feeds. You can schedule your posts days in advance.
  • Google allows you to set up “alerts” about certain topics of interest to you and have links to the topics delivered to your e-mail in basket at a time convenient to you (hourly, daily, weekly, etc.).
  • Also, consider using LinkedIn Recruiter’s Projects tool. This allows you to keep the job posting, your searchers and the profiles of potential candidates in a separate Project that you can label for each position.
  • Remember, you needn’t do all the work yourself. Many of the day-to-day recruiting tasks (such as keyword search on LinkedIn Recruiter and e-mails to potential candidates) could be performed by a recruiting assistant.

If you’re a manager of a department or a staff recruiter in an Inland Empire company’s HR department, you’re more than likely swamped with work. Finding great people for your firm or department is critical to success, but it’s easy to keep putting off the “chore” of finding them.

Let Arrow Staffing help. We’ve been recruiting in San Bernardino and Riverside counties for more than 40 years. We know where “the good guys” (and gals) are. Contact us today to discuss your recruiting/staffing needs.

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