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Bertrandduperrin bookmarked on 2009-09-27 socialmedia twitter recruitment recruitment2.0 crowdsourcing humanresources

So think of the untapped potential opportunities for companies looking to source and attract talent. As social media is used inside the company to increase collaboration, communication and innovation, it's become important for recruiters to locate prospective employees who are also users of social media. Using Twitter can level the playing field so that smaller firms can find those people as effectively as the Fortune 500 do. And those companies who have turned toward Twitter have found it an efficient way to identify passive job candidates who might not be scanning job boards.

  • Some companies are going beyond posting tweets about new positions to using the wisdom of the crowd to actually write a new job description

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    So think of the untapped potential opportunities for companies looking to source and attract talent. As social media is used inside the company to increase collaboration, communication and innovation, it's become important for recruiters to locate prospective employees who are also users of social media. Using Twitter can level the playing field so that smaller firms can find those people as effectively as the Fortune 500 do. And those companies who have turned toward Twitter have found it an efficient way to identify passive job candidates who might not be scanning job boards.

    socialmedia twitter recruitment recruitment2.0 crowdsourcing humanresources

    • Some companies are going beyond posting tweets about new positions to using the wisdom of the crowd to actually write a new job description