7 Essentials for Sourcing Top Talent

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2 How to harness social sourcing and candidate relationship management today Social sourcing is the competitive advantage for corporate recruitment strategy today. Choosing the right recruiting platform to leverage social networks as well as manage all sourcing and candidate engagement efforts can help companies of all sizes drive significantly better recruiting results. Based on requirements from our customers and feedback from industry experts, this cheatsheet will help you determine the value of new sourcing technologies for your company. The 7 key areas to consider are: Social Recruiting Employee Referrals Promoting Job Openings Candidate Relationship Management Candidate Sourcing and Development Intelligence and Analytics for Strategic Recruiting Recruiting Technology Connections Social recruiting Does the product allow anyone to share job openings with their contacts in social networks and ? Business reason: Sharing job information in social networks is an efficient, inexpensive method of targeting quality talent and expanding talent networks. Can recipients directly apply or forward a job invitation to extend reach in talent networks? Business reason: Giving recipients the ability to easily extend the job invitation to their own networks creates a viral marketing program for your jobs within the networks of employees and their contacts. Can you target contacts or broadcast to multiple networks (e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter) from one place? Business reason: Having the flexibility to target contacts or broadcast to multiple networks from one place makes it fast and easy for users and their contacts which increases usage and social referrals. Is there matching technology to suggest relevant contacts for the job based on social profile information? Business reason: With advanced matching technology, it s easier to find the right talent for job openings and saves time; employees are more likely to actively refer when it s fast and easy to do so. Can you automate the publishing of jobs to social networks any time? Business reason: By automating the process of publishing jobs to social networks any time you expedite time to market job openings and it s effortless for everyone to help out. 2

3 Social recruiting (cont ) Are you able to track how job invitations are shared in 300 social networks, communities and blogging platforms? Business reason: Tracking all the job information in hundreds of social channels gives you insight on what s working and not working. Can you publish branded job information in social networks? Business reason: Featuring your company s brand prominently in social networks builds value for your employment brand. Can any employee contribute to recruiting through social networks? Business reason: By empowering employees to easily invite their social network contacts, your company gains access to a large and growing, but targeted, pool of talent. Employee Referrals Are you able to manage your employee referral program, track referrals and recognize employee contributions? Business reason: Effective management and tracking of referrals will help you recognize and reward employees, thus increasing participation and quality referrals generated; and referrals are the highest quality, least expensive source of hire. Is it easy for all employees to send job invitations to their contacts and social networks and see what happened as a result of their efforts? Business reason: Making it easy for employees to send job invitations and track their referrals increases adoption and drives up referrals. Do you have consistent, easy ways to communicate with employees about job openings and for employees to communicate with you about referrals? Business reason: An intuitive, practical, consistently used platform helps you build a culture that drives and rewards referrals in your company. Are employees as well as the recruiting team and hiring managers easily able to tap their social networks with social recruiting tools? Business reason: By providing intuitive, fast ways for employees to tap their social networks, you vastly expand the pool of talent your company can reach. 3

4 Promoting Job Openings Does the product enable automated feed of your current job openings to free job search engines like Indeed, Oodle, Simply Hired, Jobfox and Glassdoor? Business reason: Automating the feed of current job openings to free job search engines is cost-effective and ensures that jobseekers will find your job listing. Can you publish your jobs anywhere on the web and track with unlimited URLs? Business reason: Being able to promote job openings anywhere on the web helps you broaden your reach of potential candidates. Are URLs or job links automatically generated? Business reason: Automatically generating URLs ensures viewers don t get broken or out of date job links which can occur when manually cutting and pasting job URLs. Are you able to automate distribution of jobs on Twitter channels with short, trackable URLs and hashtags? Business reason: Having automated distribution of jobs on Twitter channels with short, trackable URLs and hashtags saves time and makes it easy for you to see what s working. Does the product allow anyone at your company to share job information with Facebook friends or fans with an easy to install and use Facebook application? Business reason: Being able to add the Work with Us application on a Facebook page helps you broaden your reach to prospective candidates and bring them back to your career site. Can any friend or fan on Facebook browse current jobs at your company, apply and forward job invitations? Business reason: Having a recruiting presence on Facebook is cost effective to vastly expand your reach and enables people to easily find and share job information or apply. Are the jobs on Facebook automatically kept up to date and all referrals tracked? Business reason: Automating job updates and tracking referrals through Work with Us saves time and helps you know what s working. 4

5 Candidate Relationship Management 7 Essentials for Sourcing Top Talent Are you able to import and organize leads from all sourcing activities? Business reason: Ensures that important leads and information don t slip through the cracks, making your recruiting team more effective and efficient at developing a pool of talent for future jobs or a pipeline for current jobs. Do you have a shared platform for sharing prospects and sourcing information among your recruiting team? Business reason: A shared platform gives your team the resources to contribute seamlessly and the visibility into progress against business goals. Can you find contacts in your database with tagging and advanced search? Business reason: Having the ability to tag and do advance search in your database helps you get value out of your contact database, saves you time and increases productivity. Does the product allow you to manage your pipeline effectively with reminders, activity logs and communication capabilities? Business reason: The recruiter CRM facilitates communication and pipeline management to increase sourcing productivity and create a seamless, professional experience for candidates and prospects. Are you able to get a real-time feed of public social profile information about your leads? Business reason: Having real-time feed of public social profile information about your leads helps you save time on candidate research. Candidate Sourcing and Development Are you able to efficiently search professional profiles in social networks, your own database and on the web from one place? Business reason: Searching professional profiles via multiple ways social media, own database and web helps you build a strong talent pool at little or no cost. Can you easily focus your search on profile information, then filter and refine by keyword? Business reason: Filtering out irrelevant data and refining your search by keyword or source eliminates wasted time and provides better data about potential candidates. Can you click to import profiles from the web into your CRM? Business reason: Having the ability to import profiles into your CRM with one click makes sourcing more productive. 5

6 Intelligence and Analytics for Strategic Sourcing and Recruiting Does the product provide personalized dashboards to give each user relevant information specific to their needs? Business reason: Getting a personalized, snapshot of relevant data empowers users to target recruiting investments and eliminate spending waste and provides executives with visibility to allocate resources to achieve business goals. Does the product enable accurate, automated, real-time metrics and tracking of candidate sources? Business reason: Real-time, accurate tracking and metrics helps you pinpoint effective sources, mechanism and individuals with highly productive networks. Can you track results of job information sharing in and across social networks? Business reason: Tracking how job information is shared in and across social networks helps you understand which channel yields better results. Are you able to get career site reports and microsite traffic data as well as benchmark comparisons? Business reason: Understanding career site and microsite traffic performance with benchmark comparisons helps you optimize your career site. Does the product enable data integration from multiple sources into one intuitive view of recruiting results? Business reason: The automatic integration of data from multiple sources saves time and provides valuable insights. Recruiting Technology Connections Can the product work independently or with other applicant tracking and recruiting software? Business reason: Having the option of implementing a product as a standalone or with other existing recruiting software helps meet specific business requirements. Does the product enable you to deliver prospects to the apply process on career sites and track interactions? Business reason: Automating the process of getting candidates to land back on your career site and track interactions ensures a good candidate experience and provides essential data about recruiting results. Does the product automate imports and updates on your company s job information? Business reason: Being able to automate imports and updates on your company s job information saves time and eliminates errors. 6

7 We hope you found this cheatsheet useful. Our award-winning product, Jobvite Source, is an easy-to-use and practical intuitive web-based application that can help you achieve your recruitment sourcing goals today. It s the only social sourcing and candidate relationship management application that helps you target relevant talent through employee referrals, social networks and the web then build and engage your talent pool. Jobvite Source is one intuitive platform to manage all sourcing programs and see the results. Key benefits include: Get results with social recruiting Build and engage your talent pool Target relevant talent anywhere on the web See what s working with personalized dashboards Gain better intelligence to target the right talent while reducing costs Plus, Jobvite Source works independently or with other applicant tracking and recruiting software you have now without complex, lengthy integration. Jobvite Source named an Awesome New Technology for HR by the HR Technology Conference Jobvite Source named Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive Learn more about Jobvite and take the product tour today > about jobvite Jobvite is the only recruiting platform that that delivers real-time recruiting intelligence with innovative technology for the evolving social web. Leading, fast-growing companies today use Jobvite s social recruiting, sourcing and talent acquisition solutions to target the right talent and build the best teams. Jobvite is a complete, modular Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform which can optimize the speed, cost-effectiveness and ease of recruiting for any company. CONNECT WITH US

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