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Building relationships has never been more important in business settings. As companies of all sizes vie for a piece of the local and global marketplace pie, the need to build your profile and communicate your company culture is critical. Social media offers unique opportunities for HR professionals. Social media for ...

Using social media creatively boosts your chances of hiring the talent needed to lead, and grow, your company. Despite the rumor, there is no shortage of talent. But there is a lot of competition for the talent on the market. How do you drive interest toward your brand? Most companies ...

Glassdoor recently reported that 96% of the online population belongs to at least one social network. Add that to the fact that 47% of today's workforce was born after 1980 (and by 2025, more than 75% of workers will be come from the "social media generation" having grown up with ...

By: BrightMove Recruiting Software As detailed in earlier posts, social media can be used as part of an organization's recruitment strategy, however, the real gold mine that social media offers is the ability to build a brand and market a company/product in a way that makes people not only want ...

By: BrightMove Recruiting Software Every employer should have a social media policy in place as a guideline for employees and as protection for their company. Why? Social Media has become a medium that opens up employers to a litany of ways in which they can be held liable for their ...

By: BrightMove Recruiting Software The use of social media has become more addictive than smoking and more appealing than sleep. An infographic published last year cites the effects social media has had on the 18-85 age category. Among those statistics: 1 in 3 people under the age of 30 value ...

By: BrightMove Recruiting Software Depending on the report you read, estimates range from 80 to 98 percent of recruiters that cite using some form of social media to consistently stock their candidate pools. A high number of those recruiters will also do full pre-hire internet searches on candidates to make ...

by Traci K and BrightMove Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software LinkedIn has propelled itself in recent years to become the second most used social media site in the U.S. for recruitment. Recruiters and their organizations have established profiles, often times extensively detailed, with connection numbers reaching in the thousands. In ...

by Traci K and BrightMove Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software We have progressed far enough into the age of online recruitment that utilizing social media is definitely not a new concept. However, many recruiters may underestimate the utility of Twitter with the highly informal setup and content limitations. Even with ...

by Traci K and BrightMove Recruiting Software Facebook and other forms of social media have become increasingly popular sources for those in charge of hiring to find free information about their applicants. You may assume that certain social sites would not have a wide reach or perhaps that only today's ...