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For Social Recruiting, Failure is AN Option

Posted by Vic Okezie on August 24th, 2010 | No Comments

You grow up most of your life hearing your parents and partners, teachers and TV stars, mentors and managers – remind you that failure is not an option! The fear of failing is scary. It is human nature to be successful.

But atimes, one may have to fail (probably a few times) to get things right. And the same goes with introducing social recruiting into your hiring strategy. One of the reasons that deter some UK companies from social recruiting, is the thought of failure.

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Why Social Recruiting is NOT Google Wave

Posted by Vic Okezie on August 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Last week, Google waved goodbye to Google Wave (the pun is cliché), and unsurprisingly, ‘everyone’ seems to have predicted this. The service was intended to be Google’s big crack into the Social Media terrain – an industry largely dominated by Facebook and Twitter.

So many commentators have written blogs on why Google Wave wasn’t attractive for ’surfers’, with lots of valid reasons why the product failed from a usability point of view, as well as Google’s own poor marketing strategy. The list is exhausive, and I will not dwell on them here.

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Social Recruiting Vs Social Recruitment: SEO

Posted by Vic Okezie on August 4th, 2010 | 1 Comment

The use of Social Media in Recruiting has given rise to a new set of mini-industry, within the recruitment sector. Dubbed social recruiting, or like some others call it: social recruitment.

This post will look at very basic SEO analysis of these phrases (I am no expert on this), and how the searches on related keywords will affect results generated by major search engines. For this particular post, we will consider Google. Sorry Bing etc.

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Social Recruiting Tool: Work for Us Facebook App

Posted by Vic Okezie on July 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Had an interesting conversation yesterday with Stéphane Le Viet, co-founder and investor in the Facebook App Work for Us. It looks like a great tool that allows companies to add a mini- job board on their Facebook Fan page.

Usually, some companies post jobs on their Facebook fan page stream, but this app makes things tidier by moving the jobs to a tab on the fan page.

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Social Recruiting and The Truth About Surveys

Posted by Vic Okezie on July 13th, 2010 | No Comments

The last few months have seen a continued increase in discussions around Social Recruiting. Almost weekly, we are seeing surveys and reports that go from extremely pro-social recruiting to very anti-social recruiting. The former tend to come from companies offering social media hiring tools or services to employers and corporate recruiters. Like you’d imagine, the later seems to originate from traditional recruiting methods, job boards and “not-ready-for-change” recruiters.

Both of these set of surveys or whitepapers are pushed into the media, with multiple retweets by their respective faithfuls, in order to prove some points or reassure themselves that the industry is (or is not) warming to social recruiting. You may find similar instances from the US and UK.

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