Last month saw the first Social Recruiting Summit in the Google offices in Mountainview, California. This month sees a UK conference - Social Media in Recruitment - dedicated to using social media within recruitment, on the 16th July 2009 at the British Library in London.. It has been put together by Mike Taylor from Web Based Recruitment, and the subject matter being discussed includes:
- An overview of Social Media including social networking sites,
blogs and podcasts - How social networking sites such as Facebook can be used to get messages to your target audience
- How to use LinkedIn to promote your vacancies and source new candidates
- How to use Twitter, TwitterJobSearch.com and the Job Search Engines for recruitment
- The legal issues re the use of social media web sites
- Using online video to promote your company and your job vacancies
- How to put together a social media strategy for your company
- The future - taking social media to the next level
Are you going on the 16th?
If you are, let me know - it would be great to meet you there.
