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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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#SMiB Social Media in Business Conference

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

It is now becoming a tradition to try and get out a review or some take outs from a conference, and I will attempt to write one for the Social Media in Business Conference, which was held last Friday at the Paypal/eBay UK HQ, in lovely Richmond.

I attended from a Social Media in Recruiting perspective, but with an open mind to see what other companies are doing in their diverse sectors.

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Social Recruiting at CitySearch with Facebook Ads

Posted by Vic Okezie on May 12th, 2010 | No Comments

Today, Techcrunch ran a piece on how Citysearch is using Facebook Ads for Social Media Recruiting. With Facebook’s very large audience and social activity, it is seemingly becoming the largest database of potential candidates for Hiring managers.

Erick Schonfield, Co-Editor at Techcrunch pointed out that Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti explained to him a very simple but effective way they are using Facebook ads to hire people.

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Social Media Recruiting Tool: Jobmagic.com

Posted by Vic Okezie on May 7th, 2010 | 1 Comment

We are seeing more Social Media Recruiting tools that could take advantage of the gradual shift to technologies that power Jobs distribution on Social Media sites and engagements with candidates.

I have been playing with Jobmagic.com for a while. It is more of a Jobs publishing tool, that post jobs for recruiters and companies to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and over 200 social media websites.

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Social Media Recruiting And The Future of ATS

Posted by Vic Okezie on April 29th, 2010 | No Comments

One of the issues heavily discussed within the Social Media Recruiting circle is how Employers can track the source of applications made by candidates that have been engaged with, via Social Networks and Social Media tools.

I know url shortening services like bit.ly and emp.ly can provide you with number of clicks, source etc. But how about a Social Media Recruiting ATS? Will Jobvite fill that vacuum? Or has it?

I am unsure if any of the existing Application Tracking Systems (ATS) have developed a unique tool that can easily track lots of analytics related to jobs applied for, for example via Facebook and Twitter, and manage the whole hiring process.

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Categories: Facebook Social Media Recruiting Social Recruiting Twitter