Social recruiting got you down? We offer a quick peek into our latest eBook, which covers common social recruiting woes and the tools you’ll need to overcome them.

1. Preview: 28 Tools to Conquer
The Social Media Recruiting World

2. With unemployment hovering around 5 percent in the U.S., hiring managers and
recruiters are feeling the strain of a depleted job pool:
Percentage of Hiring Managers Having Difficulty Filling Jobs

3. Social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn offer a wealth of job candidate
possibilities, but the results from social recruiting have been decidedly less than
stellar:
Job-Seeker Social Media Use vs. Recruiter Hiring Success

4. Are you Google? If not, the odds are that you’ve had social
recruiting troubles of your own. So the question becomes …
what are you doing wrong?

5. For one, you could be simply spamming job listings and expecting resumes to
just pour in ...
“Social media platforms are places to have
online conversations; they are not job
boards. Many recruiters struggle with this
idea, thinking that just tweeting their job will
bring 100 applications. If you think of social
media as a visit to your local pub, you’d
never randomly yell from the door, ‘Want a
job?’ So don’t do that online.”
— Katrina Collier, social recruiting specialist
and founder of Winning Impression Ltd.

6. … or only thinking about short-term hiring needs.
“Recruiters treat social media as a
transactional platform, but you have to
think long-term. Don’t just hop on
LinkedIn to find that one person you
need right now. Reach out to a bunch of
people who may fit your needs later on
down the line. The goal is to build a
community, and that doesn’t happen by
accident.”
— Matthew Kosinski,
online editor at Recruiter.com

7. You could also be forgetting about your greatest source of social potential:
current employees!
“It’s incredible how much great stuff
many employees are socially sitting on
that [recruiters] didn’t even know about.
If your employee likes working
somewhere, they will show it on social,
and the company can use that to get even
more talent. Companies need to make
their employees their best advocates.”
— Chad Macrae, founder
of Recruiting Social

8. Social recruiting isn’t easy, which means you’re going to need help. That’s why
Software Advice has put together a comprehensive eBook detailing 28 (!) tools,
both free and paid, to help you find …

9. … attract …

10. … and hire the best candidates from social media, all while analyzing your efforts
along the way.

11. Don’t worry, we cover those awesome mobile and employee referral tools as
well ...

12. … and offer tips for deciding what social recruiting tools and platforms are right
for you.
“Put more effort into marketing tools than recruiting tools. It
sounds counterintuitive, but as experts have noted, you can’t
just blast job openings and bug candidates on social media
and expect the new hires to start rolling in. It’s important to
find tools to help market your company as a great place to
work so that the candidates will come to you.”
— from 28 Tools To Conquer the Social Media Recruiting World

13. The tools you need to up your social recruiting game are in sight. To learn more,
check out our FREE eBook:
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14. References
1. http://www.manpowergroup.com/wps/wcm/connect/manpowergroup-en/
home/thought-leadership/research-insights/talent-shortage-2015/talent
+shortage+results
2. https://www.jobvite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/
Jobvite_SocialRecruiting_Survey2014.pdf
3. https://www.jobvite.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/
jobvite_jobseeker_nation_2015.pdf

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