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Tallulah David

The 3 social recruiting posts that get more applicants

Nearly 9 out of 10 candidates use social media in their job search, and 9 out of 10 companies use social media and professional networking sites to hire talent today. Candidates and companies are certainly on social, but according to our recent survey, companies are likely not driving as many applicants as they can based on the content they’re publishing on social networks. When we learned the top types of social media content that candidates say would make them more likely to apply to a job and compared that with the content companies publish most often, there were some hits but also some definite misses. Below are the top 3 social recruiting posts that get more applicants according to candidates. You can also watch the quick video excerpt from our recent webinar that shares these findings.

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How to lose a candidate in 5 ways

You may have heard of the romcom classic, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” It’s a film where the protagonist is on a writing assignment to discover the many ways one can inadvertently drive a love interest away. The characters stage over-the-top antics all in an effort to answer the universal question that often punctuates the unexpected end of any relationship: What went wrong?

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