Thought for the Day: Social media is participatory. If it’s not participatory, it’s not social media.
- Social Recruiting: Is The Hype Over Yet?
Australia’s Michael Specht takes a whack at describing the work that needs to be done. We’re in the very, very early stages and a number if things are predictable. Gartner’s hype model may not be the most useful way to think about things in the HR-Recruiting Industry. Enterprise adoption rates are slow and conservative compared with the IT environments where the Gartner tool makes sense. - social media v. job sites: the winner
Cheezhead offers some hard facts on the social media fad: “These tools however, do not replace traditional methods that have proven effective for sourcing and recruiting. Claims that newspapers are dead are misleading generalizations that don’t look at some noticeable exceptions (as the data below shows). The same goes for claims that job boards are becoming a thing of the past.” Seems a little biased towards the job board end of the conversation. - 8 Free Reputation Monitoring Tools
It looks like the Australians are doing all of the heavy lifiting these days. This one;s from Everything Social Recruiting, the wiki from down under. - Social Media and Recruiting Facts, Canadian-style
ERE delivers some great stats. Canada is not the US. - Recruiting Controversey: Job Boards v. Social Media
Great conversation on the great Punk Rock HR Blog.
