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• A Web site that provides a virtual community for people.• Interested in a particular subject or just to "hang out" together.• Members create their own online "profile" with biographical data, pictures, likes, dislikes and any other information they choose to post.
• They communicate with each other by voice, chat, instant message, videoconference and blogs, and the service typically provides a way for members to contact friends of other members.
• The "social networking site" is the 21st century "virtual community," a group of people who use the Internet to communicate with each other about anything and everything.
• You can find dating sites, friendship sites, sites with a business purpose and hybrids that offer a combination of these. Globally, hundreds of millions of people have joined one or more social networking sites.
• Employers can use information on social sites to learn about prospective employees. Reading profiles and perusing photos has become standard for human resources departments in some companies.
• Provides recruiters access to millions of contacts.• Helps to leverage social contacts to get introductions to desired contacts.
• Can create social groups of people – however limited ability to communicate.
NEGATIVES:
• Recruiters can get lost for hours/days building their linking network.• Difficulty to sync contact history from network to CRM.• If recruiter builds personal network – and leaves your company, their network leaves with them.
• Can help a company gain presence on the social networks.• Allows employees and candidates to become “fans” of your company.• Better conversion rates of linkable contacts for advertising on the networks.
NEGATIVES:
• Can receive negative feedback and comments from unhappy workers.• Harder to build a private company network – as people don’t want to participate in several social networks.
• If not actively worked – hard to get enough traffic and results to maintain over time.
• Leverages your employee network on the social networks.• Integrated approach – driving candidates directly back to your site.• Easily deployed to employee network via mass communication.• Ongoing and updated touch with employee referral network.• Measureable results for pre/post apply activity.
NEGATIVES:
• Can be hard to get to get marketing approval due to unknown impacts.• Possibility of getting undesirable candidates from certain individuals.• Closing the employee referral loop – if no system in place to track.