As more companies continue to leverage technology to improve
efficiency and service delivery, human resource managers are also using social
media platforms to recruit the best employees. The term social recruiting
refers to the process of hiring potential candidates through the use of social
media profiles. Social hiring gives the hiring team a background information
check of the potential candidate without interfering with his/her privacy.
Today, more and more companies are adopting social hiring concept
as their new way of hiring employees. By using popular social media platforms
such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, hiring managers can find the best
top-cream candidate on the market for a specific job vacancy.
Social hiring is beneficial to the recruiting team in many ways
including:
• It gives comprehensive background information about a potential
employee to ascertain his/her integrity. It helps you review and flag any
user-generated content regarding racism, acts of violence, illegal activities
or even sexually explicit materials.
• Getting candidate with the best skills and experience faster
• It takes less time to hire a potential candidate as compared to
the conventional method of recruiting
• Social hiring helps in increasing quality employees' referrals
to potential recruiters
As a recruiter, it's essential that you understand the social
hiring concept better to save time and target the right potential candidates.
To achieve this, you must ensure that you are using the right keywords at any
given social media platform to filter more relevant data.
Also, there are various social platforms that deal with specific
types of professionals. For instance, if you want to recruit a graphic
designer, there are specific social platforms such as Dribble that deal with
graphic designers only.
Joining useful social media groups and applications can also help
recruiters find qualified candidates faster. Different social media platforms
have different groups and boards where one can join and filter the right
candidate for the job.
Social Intelligence Hiring
Social intelligence concept helps organizations in hiring a large
number of employees at all levels faster and at a low cost per hire. With this
concept, the recruiter can get the best candidates who are up and running.
Social intelligence hiring focuses on hiring candidates based on
their self-mastery skills, innovative, interpersonal skills, reasoning, applied
technical knowledge, influencing ability, passion for work, resilience and
affecting ability.
These innovative hiring methods help recruiters hire all-round
candidates who are not only passionate about the job but, with uncompromised
integrity. The risk of wrong hiring is also low compared to the traditional
hiring methods.
Social intelligence hiring is also very useful when it comes to
hiring employees who will be charged with key decision-makers in any
organization. It helps recruiters, select managers, with abundant real-time
experience and inputs that can be absorbed immediately after the hiring process.
These innovative modern hiring methods are ideal for startups and
large companies looking for multiple hires. It takes a lot of time for
companies to recruit large numbers of staff using the traditional hiring
methods but with the adoption of social intelligence and
social hiring concepts, recruiters can now get qualified candidates within the
shortest time possible.
It's the high time that companies appreciate the importance of
these new recruiting concepts and take advantage of social platforms to hire
the best employees who are equipped with the required skills and experience.
