Comments on: It’s okay if you’re not social media recruiting http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/2010/02/its-okay-if-youre-not-social-media-recruiting/ Your Guide to Online Recruitment Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: WJS http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/2010/02/its-okay-if-youre-not-social-media-recruiting/#comment-2941 WJS Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:30:49 +0000 http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/?p=432#comment-2941 If one follows the debate amongst social media experts one finds that, for all the effort, thought, conceptualising and cost, the evidence and ROI is still vague. The best brains are still asking each other does it work. So for the average employer, it'll remain a largely ad hoc arrangement. Anything larger requires significant resource - be that resource time or money spent on social media experts. Undoubtedly, there will be the killer app that makes social media a viable recruitment and sourcing option. And even then, I don't think job boards will be dead for quite some time after. If one follows the debate amongst social media experts one finds that, for all the effort, thought, conceptualising and cost, the evidence and ROI is still vague. The best brains are still asking each other does it work.

So for the average employer, it’ll remain a largely ad hoc arrangement. Anything larger requires significant resource – be that resource time or money spent on social media experts.

Undoubtedly, there will be the killer app that makes social media a viable recruitment and sourcing option. And even then, I don’t think job boards will be dead for quite some time after.

]]> By: Alconcalcia http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/2010/02/its-okay-if-youre-not-social-media-recruiting/#comment-2921 Alconcalcia Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:25:09 +0000 http://www.whatjobsite.com/blog/?p=432#comment-2921 I tend to agree. There are many ways to skin a cat, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook et al are just new ones, but by no means widely tried and tested. Cast enough bread on the water and you'll get a bite, but for anyone to suggest for instance that the job board is dead and that twitter will be the world's bestest and largest job board is, for the time being at least, purely wishful thinking. As you rightly point out, there are many mediums available to the employers that have been around for years and it takes a lot more thought than just shoving a job on twitter and waiting for the world to get in touch. The quality of the message is as important as the media. I see far too many cut and pasted job descriptions out there on the web. Do recruiters honestly expect to get a good response from such poorly thought through fayre? Maybe they do, and maybe that's why they are shouting about how current methods are dying and how social media is the next big thing. They'll soon discover though that if you post copy that doesn't sell the role, it doesn't matter where you put it, you'll still get the same poor quality response. I tend to agree. There are many ways to skin a cat, Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook et al are just new ones, but by no means widely tried and tested. Cast enough bread on the water and you’ll get a bite, but for anyone to suggest for instance that the job board is dead and that twitter will be the world’s bestest and largest job board is, for the time being at least, purely wishful thinking.

As you rightly point out, there are many mediums available to the employers that have been around for years and it takes a lot more thought than just shoving a job on twitter and waiting for the world to get in touch. The quality of the message is as important as the media.

I see far too many cut and pasted job descriptions out there on the web. Do recruiters honestly expect to get a good response from such poorly thought through fayre? Maybe they do, and maybe that’s why they are shouting about how current methods are dying and how social media is the next big thing. They’ll soon discover though that if you post copy that doesn’t sell the role, it doesn’t matter where you put it, you’ll still get the same poor quality response.

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