Those of you reading my tweets last week (as well as those who read Alex’s blog post on Digital Recruiting) will know that I attended the Social Recruiting Summit held at the Googleplex last Monday. The event was fantastic not only in terms of presentation content but also in terms of the great connections I made and the interesting conversations that I had the chance to take part in.
I’m not going to summarise the event here though. Michael Specht has already done a great job of that on his blog and he went to nearly the same sessions as I did! I will however be putting something about my experiences on the Barkers Blog in the very near future
What I am going to do is post some thoughts on Social Recruiting from Google’s very own VP of HR who opened the conference. I filmed this unintentionally illicitely before I was reminded of the filming ban. I hope no one minds me posting the clip, it was just much to interesting to waste!
The interview I did on Social Media and Employer Branding with Nick Price Research has just made it onto YouTube. It also includes a little bit more context for the ACE presentation in my previous post
For those of you who were interested in my previous posts about the “Assessing the Candidate Experience” research Barkers did with The Guardian earlier in the year, the presentation is now on Slideshare
You can read more about ACE and watch videos of the panel debate at the launch on the ACE Research website
Workthing have recently launched a new service aimed at job seekers call Workthing Plus. In the same way as The Ladders, Workthing Plus charges job seekers for access and in return provides them with a number of career and job search management tools. This is certainly the first example I’ve come across of a job board doing this outside of the executive recruitment marketing which The Ladders firmly sits in
In a market where there are less jobs being advertised it certainly makes good business sense for sites to monetise their audience in new ways. However are these services necessarily good news for the candidate or is it just profiteering? Well this is what I’m hoping to find out. Workthing have very kindly given me free access to the site and I’ll be road testing all of the services over the next few weeks. To get a good comparison I’ll also be take a candidate’s eye view of The Ladders at the same time.
The next Recruitment Tweetup will be held in London on Thursday 16th July. We’ll publish more details of some ideas we have round the format for discussion shortly. Thanks to everyone who voted on the date
After the success of the first one we’re just starting to think about organising the second Recruitment Tweetup. Before deciding the format though the first thing to get right is choosing date that everyone can make. If you are interested in attending you can let us know which dates in July are best for you here via Doodle. If you didn’t manage to get to the last one this is what you missed…..
I was looking back through the Digital Recruiting archives the other day and realised that I first wrote about social media and recruitment in this post from 2006. It’s great to finally see the recruitment industry getting it’s head properly round social media even if it has taken a while! It’s also good to see the the concept of personal branding becoming mainstream and I think today’s post on Mashable is perhaps one the most practical things I’ve ever seen written on the subject.
So now I think the time is right to step the debate up a bit and take things to the next level. Over the next few weeks I’m going to try to introduce some new ideas into the debate as well as expanding on some thoughts I’ve had in the past.
I’ll be kicking off straight after Easter with some thoughts on Social Graphs and their potential to change the recruitment landscape even further. In lots of ways they already have……
Just a quick post to say thanks to everyone who helped make this week’s UK Recruitment Tweetup such a success. Special thanks to our sponsors TwitterJobSearch.com and also to the legendary Jamie “My Long Lunch” Leonard for doing such a good job organising the venue. I also know a few of you travelled quite long distances to attend, we’re really glad you made the effort.
I’ll be organising some kind of feedback questionnaire at some point next week as it would be good to gauge what people would like to see from any future Tweetups. I’ve also got the joy of editing the video over the weekend so expect to see that very soon as well…….
With two days still to go the response to the UK Recruitment Tweetup has been almost overwhelming and has certainly exceeded anyone’s expectations! The good news is that, after having to declare the event full last week, we now have extra capacity and you can register here again.
There has been a small but vocal bit of controversy centring on our decision to keep the venue secret which I should really address briefly here. All we are doing is trying to keep the event as a Tweetup rather than a free for all and we also wanted to give ourselves a bit of flexibility with the logistics until we knew what sort of response the event would get. We’ll let everyone know in plenty of time where to go, most probably via an email on Tuesday evening which will be backed up via Twitter on the day itself
If you can make it on the night but our still keen to join in via Twitter we are hoping to be running the #RTU stream in Twitter Search on some screens at the venue so please do contribute!
It’s great to see the momentum building behind what will be the UK’s first Recruitment Tweetup. There are already a large number of sign ups and it’s fantastic to see we’ve got a really diverse mix of individuals involved. It will all make for a great event!
What will make the event even greater is the fact that we now have a sponsor. You’ve probably heard a lot about Twitter Job Search this week and we’re delighted that they are going to be supporting the Tweetup!
The event is being held at a secret location in the Farringdon area on the 1st April and the only criteria for attending are that you are a Twitter user and connected with the recruitment or hr industries. So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!
