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Having a solid social media strategy is a crucial component to any company’s recruiting efforts. A brand can create posts that reflect their goals, company culture, and overall mission to help attract top talent to their page. With an average of 1.56 billion daily active users, Facebook is an ideal place to start. However, the effectiveness of your Facebook posts will only go so far if you are not also monitoring performance and using those insights to inform the content you’ll produce in the future. Essentially, what your brand posts on its social channels is only as important as how much engagement it gets. It’s like that old saying goes, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

CareerArc reviews: CVS Health

For a company that hires about 130,000 employees a year, CVS Health needs to consistently fill its pipeline with the right candidates without having to spend a fortune. With CareerArc, Kerry Noone, director of employer branding and recruitment marketing, can tell a successful ROI story. 

CareerArc reviews: U.S. Bank

As vice president of talent acquisition of the fifth-largest bank in the country, Elley Seifert’s main goal is to find top talent for U.S. Bank. To do so efficiently and effectively, the organization had to make a shift from manual labor to automation. 

Human resources is one of the fastest-growing fields today, with employment of human resource managers projected to grow at a rate of 9% from 2014 to 2024. Despite its popularity, breaking into an HR career is no easy feat. From degrees to certificates to work experience, there are a fair share of requirements that comes when pursuing an HR career path. 

Attracting and retaining employees is becoming more competitive by the day. It’s a candidate’s market, and hiring managers are finding it more challenging to attract top talent. The traditional phrase of “hire slow” is going out of vogue in the fight for qualified candidates. With these high-performing individuals, organizations should speed up their recruiting process if they want to attract and retain exceptional employees.

Social media has become an essential part of life. Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social media sites allow others to learn more about an individual or a business. These channels also allow others to get an intimate look inside a brand and what happens both in and outside of the company office. In the corporate world, social media presents multiple touchpoints across the employee journey—from the early job seeker phase to the veteran phase (and even post-employment!). It can also help foster and maintain authentic relationships between employees and the C-suite—where otherwise they may have limited interactions. The best social media employee engagement strategy, however, will not only support personal relationships, but will also amplify your employer brand.

There’s no denying that social media and employee engagement are a powerful combination for businesses to connect and engage with an active audience. In 2018, there were about 243.6 million social network users in the U.S.—about three quarters of the country’s population. This number is projected to grow every year through 2023. While social media can be used to broadcast a company’s employer brand and job opportunities, it can also strengthen employee engagement at a company. 

Have you ever had to hire a tough, specialized role? Are you looking to connect with talent faster and on a more personal level? See how virtual events in the form of recruiting webinars are playing a role in sourcing today’s top talent.

Of all types of talent that are discoverable on Reddit, IT is the most abundant in terms of users and variety of communities. If you have worked in my Reddit Sourcing Toolbox, you’ll notice that there are dozens of communities and about one for just about every programming language—and those are just the ones that I have indexed. There are far more communities that you will likely stumble upon if you spend enough time going down that rabbit hole.