Despite the name, social recruiting’s benefits aren’t limited just to retention. A strong social recruiting strategy can help with retaining employees as well. To help you retain employees more efficiently, we asked social media experts and HR professionals for their #1 way they’ve used social media to retain talent.
If there existed a 10 commandments of social recruiting, one of them would probably be, “Thou shalt not skip out on thought leadership posts.” Sharing thought leadership posts on social media is an important part of building and broadcasting your employer brand, as they show that you’re a thought leader in the space— something higher quality candidates in particular care about.
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So you’ve done your research into social recruiting. You’ve weighed the options, calculated the costs and benefits, and are ready to invest. But now comes the tricky bit: you have to get leadership to buy into social recruiting. Which begs the question—how do you get buy-in on social recruiting?
Reducing time to fill is one of the top goals for all talent acquisition teams, no matter the industry. For recruiting to remain efficient and competitive, it’s essential to continuously work towards reducing the amount of time it takes to find candidates.
Here’s the thing. Social recruiting needs to be an integral part of your talent acquisition strategy, especially now. But for social recruiting to be done right, it needs to be done at scale—with enough variety, frequency, and reach to effectively break through the noise and reach the candidates you’re looking for. And depending on the scope of your needs (generally speaking, how many jobs you’re looking to fill), that might require a social media automation tool. And when you choose the right tool to strategically automate your social recruiting strategy with, you get to reap all the benefits of social recruiting with none of the drawbacks.
You needed more qualified candidates yesterday. And if you’re among the 92% of companies that leverage social recruiting, then you’re also likely in search for the top social recruiting strategies that can help you cut through the noise on social media and reach top talent faster. Luckily, we put those top strategies in our new Social Recruiting Strategies Matrix, which you can access now for free.
Here’s the thing about social media recruiting: it’s important to scale your social recruitment methods and strategy to match your recruitment needs. The amount of social recruiting you’d do to fill one role is nowhere near the amount you’d do to fill a hundred, or a thousand.