Recruitment 2.0
Ever been out of work and had the old stat 6 of 10 jobs are not advertised quoted at you? It used to not feel true but social media is starting to show that stat in action.
Over the past few months I’ve seen:
- BIMA recruiting for a PR via Twitter
- ShinyRed recruited a grad placement via The Official Facebook Public Relations Group
- Jobs sent out via my contacts on LinkedIn
- PRBlogger advertising a digital AE via his blog
Those are just the ones I can think of right now. Ignoring the obvious “what if they see my drunken pics on Facebook/MySpace” hype which hopefully everyone has a handle on now, I’m wondering if social media communities are going to replace the recruitment agency?
Social media just provides the tools to tap into your own or others’ networks which were harder to mass broadcast to before Web 2.0 technologies.
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I'm Darika Ahrens and I help brands develop marketing strategies for Social Media. My background is in Public Relations for companies like Orange, Microsoft, Philips, HTC, Yell.com, and Estee Lauder. I've worked with and trained some of the UK's top agencies.