Making Friends on Facebook vs Teams at Work

We’ve got a few folks in Recruiting that are just a little irritated with their leadership’s slow adoption of anything social and/or that are blown away by the snobbery that is being felt between HR and PR/Communication teams.

Use Social Media to Make Every Employee a Recruiter

Linkedin started the concept of Social Recruiting when they launched in 2003, and now it’s the buzz of the recruiting world. ERE just hosted a social recruiting conference to discuss the do’s and don’ts of social recruiting. Of course, some of the hot topics are around whether Twitter, Facebook and blogs are a good way to recruit candidates, and if so how do you go about recruiting them?

Wrong Job or Just Bored?

Is that it, or are you just not seeing the bigger picture? What is the potential of your job if you looked at it in a different way? A lot of young people quit a job too early thinking that their broad range of experience has taught them to understand the workplace. Here are some quick ideas to see if your boredom is the result of your job or your own perspective:

Job Hunters Searching For Help In Too Many Places

There are so many places to go today for help with your job search it is hard to know what is right, who is the best, what advice you should follow, and if you are doing things effectively. Everybody has a different opinion. Should you use Twitter, how much time to spend networking, do you need to change your resume, is your cover letter the best, what do to in an interview, etc.

What’s a candidate to do?

HR & Social Media: What Would Jesus Do?

Are you an HR person wrestling with how best to use social media?

You’ve got plenty of company.

At this week’s IQPC Corporate University sessions there was an entire two-day track dedicated to Social Media. Speakers included Sharlyn Lauby and Jessica Lee, HR pros who know their way around the online community and the tools available to best do that.