Social Media Recruitment Conference to be Held in April

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conferenceAccording to Mike Taylor from Web Based Recruitment, recruiters who have not yet implemented social media to be included in their recruitment strategy can still do so with no ill effects. In fact, he thinks the timing may even be to their advantage. Taylor is one of the organizers of this year’s Social Media in Recruitment Conference, which will be the fourth annual conference dedicated to help recruiters make the most of social media. The conference will be held April 19th, 2012 in Congress Centre, London.

Taylor shares, “When you are a Recruiter looking to get started it seems that every Recruiter is on all the social media sites and therefore you feel you need to do the same. And because you haven’t mastered all the different social media sites yourself there is a natural resistance to get started as you feel you don’t know enough about all the sites. The reality is that you don’t need to master all of the social media sites to get started, you simply have to work out which sites will best match your business and target audience and then manage them as efficiently as possible.”

With social media changing rapidly, recruiters are advised to keep up with the latest trends and utilize them in their recruitment strategy. The 2012 social media recruitment conference will include expert advice and will include testimonies from those who have found success via social media avenues.

Topics for this year’s conference include:

  • The past, present, and future of social media in recruitment
  • Strategies for building a talent pool
  • Social media and job seekers expectations
  • Developing and engaging talent communities
  • Managing your daily social media activities
  • Utilizing Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to recruit
  • Time for social media questions

Taylor added, “As well as being ideal for experienced users of social media the conference is also ideal for Recruiters looking to get started with social media. This is because they have the advantage of seeing what Recruiters have already done and achieved which can speed up their own implementation plans.”

For more information about the social media conference, please visit http://www.socialmediainrecruitment.com/programme-2012/.

By Rachel Lorinda