Allegis Group posted this thought provoking post – sure to get some people thinking hard about future strategies.
In last week’s blog post I made the case for the decline of LinkedIn’s effectiveness. Now that the selling of LinkedIn’s premium services has led to an over-saturation of InMails, recruiters must be more strategic. Here are some suggestions….
Have you ever fallen asleep in a presentation, or have you given a presentation that has put people to sleep? Hope not, but here is a few hints that may help. Happy presenting!
There are a few things I’ve never heard anybody say as they emerge from a conference session:
– I wish that talk went for longer
– I would have liked to see more PowerPoint slides
– If only there had been more words on each slideI actually said that to a client last week (in the same session that inspired my last post).
Following that, however, I attended the Australasian Talent Conference and saw my theories in action.
A great article in the Australian Recruiter Daily that sums up some of the things we all need to be thinking about before jumping head-first into social recruiting.
Before getting started with a social recruiting strategy, it’s essential to understand why you want to do it, says find.ly founder Jason Kerr.
Building a social brand to recruit is “an expensive and time-consuming process”, so recruiters should think about what they want to get out of it, what they can learn from it, and whether they’re willing to change the way they think and interact in order to make use of this media, he told the Australasian Talent Conference last week.
Well it’s going to be quite the month for the find.ly team, flitting around the world speaking at trade shows, serving up lunch at LinkedIn’s Global HQ and taking three executive helicopters full of recruitment thought leaders on a private charter flight around the great New York City!
And just to show you it’s not all fun & games, we’re flat out implementing clients too.
So, if you happen to bump into any of the find.ly team hard at work during recruiting shows in Silicon Valley, New York or Sydney Australia over the next two weeks, be sure to stop by and say hi, and have a chat about the future of social recruiting, or just [complain / rave] about the weather 
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Here is some interesting info for you relating to what “Careers” people on Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace are interested in.
The ‘Career Interest’ information is selected manually by people joining find.ly. People join find.ly using either their Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace profiles.
This info shows you: “For all people who said they are interested in a career in say ‘Accounting’, how many are from Facebook, LinkedIn or MySpace.”
Another way to look at these graphs maybe to say “Which type of people are more likely to have accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace?”
Anyway, whatever way you look at it, interesting trends.
We analyzed a partial sample size of 400,000 people. MORE
We’re back at work after a whirlwind end of last week at ERE Expo in San Diego!
Here’s the summary of the find.ly news and excerpts so far this Monday.
- a very nice mention in Amy Wilson’s blog: http://bit.ly/i2fRKL
- we tweeted about the winner of our $4000 Yike Bike: Mike Danubio of Hasbro – Congrats Mike! http://flic.kr/p/9sZZFB
- a very nice mention in twitter: I like how find.ly is leveraging existing social profiles to build/engage talent community w/o maintenance. @getfindly on#ereexpo showfloor
We are looking to connect with lots of the great people we met at ERE Expo and if for any reason we didn’t meet with you, please give us a ping at sales@find.ly
We couldn’t be more excited! We’re heading to the ERE Expo in San Diego in just a few weeks. We’ll be showing off all the cool features in the leading social talent community – find.ly!
We’ve created a lot of *buzz* in the market. And, we’re planning on giving one lucky winner even more. We’ve got a custom electric YikeBike worth $4,000 that we’re giving away at the show.
If you haven’t seen find.ly already, it’s a great opportunity to see the future of recruiting while getting an opportunity to win the future of transportation.
Our demos are already booking up, so book yours today at http://info.find.ly/win-a-yikebike/
See you in San Diego…
We just finished our inaugural hack.ly – a full day hackathon and we’re thrilled with the results. All of find.ly caught the hack.ly fever including our sales team!
We used a few simple guidelines:
Developers coded, others created mockups and wrote up their ideas to enhance our product and business. You’ll be seeing many of these features in our upcoming releases. And, we’ll be looking at making hack.ly a regular monthly event.
Thanks to the team for unleashing their creativity and happy holidays to you all!
Welcome to the find.ly blog. Here you can keep up with our latest news and views on the recruiting space and the Social Web. Today, we’re introducing ourselves to the world.
The Social Web is an irresistible force, irrevocably changing our everyday lives. Over 650 million people around the globe use social networks. They’re active and deeply engaged – clocking more hours on Facebook than Google each month. And, now they expect to connect with anyone and anything that interests them.
find.ly is founded on the belief that the Social Web can redefine the way that companies will find and hire people. Job seekers don’t want to create and maintain resumes, especially when they have all their qualifications in their profiles. Employers want enduring relationships, but need to manage compliance and avoid bias that the Social Web may inadvertently present. We offer a solution.
We’ve developed patented technology that makes any social profile more useful for recruitment, allowing recruiters to easily identify who has the right skills and competencies to fill a job. We are introducing an exciting new platform for the Social Web that helps our clients transform a $100 billion market.
We’ve found many people share our vision and are excited by our opportunity. We’ve just completed the initial closing of our first institutional round ($10 million), led by Richard Kincaid of Kincaid Investments (former CEO of Equity Office Partners), and several other prominent industry names including Ed Chandler, founder and Managing Director of Portage Ventures and the DFJ Portage Fund.
We’ve also recently added to our ranks, bringing on Jon Sonnenschein, former product lead for Plaxo, as our Chief Product Officer. We’re excited to add Jon’s deep experience in social media and web applications as we continue to grow our products, and strengthen our team.
If you’re interested in learning more and joining us, please contact sales@find.ly or press@find.ly.