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TABLE OF
      CONTENTS
     2-3   Logging On: What is Social Media?
      4    No, This is Not a Trend
      5    Social Media’s Reach

     6-7   From Business Tool to Recruitment
           Tool: Using Social Media to Update
           Your Employer Status

    8-11   Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin:
           What to Know Before You Go Viral
     12    Niche Sites: Thinking Outside
           the Facebooks

     13    And Don’t Forget Blogging:
           A Quick and Dirty Guide

     14    Top 10 Best Practices for Using
           Social Media to Recruit

     15    12 Benefits of Effective Social
           Media Recruiting
     16    Setting Up a Social Media Policy
     17    Social Recruiting Success Stories
     18    FAQs
     19    About CareerBuilder®




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LOGGING ON:
    WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
      Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. MySpace. YouTube. Flickr.
      Wikipedia. These are all social networking sites – and
      they’re all part of what is now known as social media.
      What differentiates a social networking site from the typical Web site?
      Where the typical Web site might be controlled by one person or
      organization, with the purpose of simply pushing out information;
      social networking sites, on the other hand, invite users to actually
      respond. In fact, the vast majority of content on social networking
      sites (or social media) comes from the public itself. Web users have
      the most control over what content goes on the site, with free reign to
      log on and post comments, links, photos, videos or responses to other
      users’ posts.

      By encouraging interaction among users, these sites create an interactive
      experience that users do not get from a typical Web site. Charlene Li and
      Josh Bernoff, in their book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed
      by Social Technologies, describe social networking as a “social trend in
      which people use technologies to get the things they need from each
      other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations.”




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LOGGING ON:                                                          SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS:
    WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?                                                             YOH
    (continued from page 2)
                                                                         Two years ago, Yoh, one of the largest
                                                                         talent and outsourcing providers in the
    Over the past few years, however, social                             U.S., was searching for a new, innovative
    networking has evolved from a personal                               way to provide resources to job seekers,
    interest to a professional one. Increasingly, businesses             so the agency embarked on a joint venture
    are finding ways to promote products and services, connect with      with CareerBuilder to build its brand on
    customers, generate new ones and drive revenue – all through         Facebook. Yoh’s goals were to provide
    social media. Even more recently, organizations are using social     job seekers a variety of resources to
                                                                         enhance the online job search, and
    media not only to generate new customers, but to recruit new
                                                                         increase its brand awareness. In its first
    employees as well. After all, social media offers the opportunity    year working with CareerBuilder to
    to engage in two-way conversations with job candidates. What         create an integrated Facebook marketing
    better way to know how to attract top talent than to hear directly   and recruiting campaign, Yoh received
    from them?                                                           nearly 3.5 million impressions and nearly
                                                                         4,500 clicks on its fan page through two
    There’s one problem with Charlene Li and Josh                        ad campaigns. For Yoh‘s second ad
    Bernoff’s definition of social media: To refer to                    campaign with CareerBuilder, Yoh has
                                                                         received nearly 1,500 clicks. Of those,
    social media as a “trend” is to insinuate that it
                                                                         nearly 700 people became fans of Yoh
    will go away, but social media is in fact, here to
                                                                         after visiting, making the conversion rate
    stay. And if you let it, it can be one of the greatest               of clicks to fans more than 44 percent.
    assets to your recruitment process.




3
48% of all Americans have social networking
    profiles – double the level from 20081

                         Americans spend nearly 1/4 of their
                         online time on social networks2

                                       Visiting social sites is now the
                                       most popular online activity
                                       – ahead of personal e-mail2          SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS:

                                                                                    BUNAC
     NO, THIS IS NOT A TREND                                                 Bunac, a non-for-profit organization
                                                                             that specializes in sending young
                                                                             people on working holidays and
    2 billion YouTube videos are viewed per day                              volunteer projects, wanted to
                                                                             cast a wider net to target a new
                                                                             audience as well as push their
                       79% of the top 100 Fortune 500 use Twitter,           employment branding to generate
                       Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs3                 referrals. Since partnering with
                                                                             CareerBuilder to create a targeted
         93% of social media users                                           advertising campaign through
         believe a company should have                                       Facebook, Bunac’s referrals have
         a presence in social media.4                                        doubled, and the client continues to
                                                                             see the value in using Facebook to
                                                                             attract candidates.
                  85% of social media users believe that a company
                  should go further than just having a presence on social
                  sites and should also interact with its customers.4

     1 2010 Arbitron/Edison research study
     2 The Nielsen Company, 2010
     3 Burson-Marsteller, The Global Social Media Check-up 2010
     4 Cone, Business in Social Media Study, September 2008
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SOCIAL MEDIA’S REACH


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                        Source: Graph 1: comScore data, July 2010. Graph 2: Nielsen Online, 2009



5
FROM BUSINESS TOOL
                       TO RECRUITMENT TOOL:
                       USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO UPDATE
                       YOUR EMPLOYER STATUS
    These days, it’s no longer unusual to receive      PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING:
                                                       Companies can push out information about new products,
    an email or visit a Web site and be directed to    company news, special promotions and press releases to
    “connect with us!” through Facebook, Twitter,      engage existing customers and generate new ones.
    LinkedIn or any number of social networking
                                                       CUSTOMER SERVICE:
    sites. From your favorite grocery store to your    Social media enables companies to “listen” to what users
    college’s alumni chapter to the place where        are saying about the brand and respond in real-time to
                                                       customer complaints on their blogs or company social
    you get your hair cut, nearly every type of
                                                       media pages.
    organization today is finding a way to market
    its business, products and services using social   INTERNAL COMMUNICATION:
                                                       The use of internal blogs and social communities enable
    media. Here are just a few ways companies are      colleagues to easily connect, share information and discuss
    using social media to promote their business:      projects. Companies also use these platforms to keep
                                                       employees up-to-date on important news, information
                                                       and events – as well as address employee concerns
                                                       and share valuable information.

                                                       TALENT RECRUITMENT:
                                                       Not only can companies push out job openings via social
                                                       media and discuss the various benefits to working at their
                                                       organization, but they can also directly respond to job
                                                       seekers’ questions via wall-posts, direct messages, tweets
                                                       or other forms of open messaging. Turn the page for more
6                                                      on how businesses are using social media to recruit.
FROM BUSINESS TOOL TO RECRUITMENT TOOL:
    USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO UPDATE
    YOUR EMPLOYER STATUS
    (continued from page 6)


      Just as they have with public relations and marketing, customer service and internal communication, businesses
      are now using social media as a recruitment tool. After all, what is recruiting if not another form of marketing?
      Both entail creating a message (What opportunities does my company provide?), targeting an audience (job
      seekers), and getting that audience to take an action (apply for positions at my company).

      This eBook is about how to use social media for talent recruitment. From how to start and where to begin to best
      practices and troubleshooting, let this eBook introduce you to a whole new way to attract and retain top talent.


      If you take only one thing away from this eBook, it should be this: People
      are central to social media and its success. They are the creators and the
      drivers of this platform, and the businesses and organizations that recruit
      successfully through social media do so because they use this space to
      interact with users on a personal level.
      While social networks aren’t a replacement for more traditional recruitment methods, with the high level of
      engagement they command, social networks have become more and more fundamental to the overall
      recruitment strategy.

      Not only does having a social networking page afford companies yet another avenue
      by which to advertise job openings, but it also enables them to have a two-way
      conversation with job seekers. The interactive element of social networking sites makes
      it easy to get feedback from or reply to job seekers questions via wall-posts, direct messages,
      tweets or other forms of open messaging.


7
It’s nearly impossible to talk about social media
                                  without talking about Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.


                                  These three sites are among the
                                  fastest growing social networking
FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND LINKEDIN:
WHAT TO KNOW
                                  sites – and among the most popular
                                  sites recruiters and hiring managers
                                  are utilizing to build their talent
BEFORE YOU GO VIRAL               pipelines.

                                  The next few pages provide an overview of these
                                  sites, and how they provide resources that enable
                                  employers to find and recruit their next employees.




8
FACEBOOK

                                                 SO YOU’VE SET UP A FACEBOOK PAGE.


     Facebook is a social networking
                                                 NOW WHAT?
     service that lets you connect with          1   TELL A STORY WITH PHOTOS –
     friends, co-workers, and others who             Give visitors a virtual tour of your facilities,
                                                     or a snapshot into your organizational culture,
     share similar interests or who                  by posting photos from company events or
     have common backgrounds. As the                 contributed by employees.
     most trafficked web site in the U.S.,       2   HIGHLIGHT EMPLOYEE ACHIEVEMENTS,
     Facebook has over 540 million unique            philanthropic involvement or fundraising efforts with
                                                     status updates on your Facebook wall or writing “notes”
     visitors per month, reaching 35.2               that users can read.
     percent of the entire Internet
     population1 – giving the companies          3   POST LINKS TO STORIES AND PRESS RELEASES
                                                     about exciting company news.
     that advertise on Facebook access to
     millions of job seekers on any given day.   4   LISTEN TO AND RECOGNIZE FANS by responding
                                                     to wall posts and participating in discussion boards.
         Source: Google, May 2010
                                                 5
     1
                                                     PROMOTE UPCOMING CAREER FAIRS with the
                                                     “events” feature.

                                                 6   PROMOTE SPECIFIC JOB OPENINGS by sending a
                                                     message to fans or via status updates.


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TWITTER
                                                      SO YOU’VE SET UP A TWITTER PAGE.

                                                     NOW WHAT?
                                               1    INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE COMMUNITY.
     Twitter is a free micro-blogging
     site that enables users to send and       2    PROMOTE SPECIFIC JOB OPENINGS by sending out a link to
                                                    your careers page or the job posting.
     receive messages – or “tweets” – of
                                               3    SEARCH FOR YOUR COMPANY to see if others are mentioning
     up to 140 characters. With 21 million          your company’s brand.
     unique U.S. visitors per month1,          4    POST LINKS TO STORIES AND PRESS RELEASES about
     Twitter’s popularity has grown                 exciting company news.
     exponentially since it launched in        5    LISTEN TO AND RECOGNIZE FANS by replying to them (either
     2008. And with 51% of active Twitter           publicly on your own wall or with a Direct Message)
     users following companies, brands         6    MAKE YOUR EMPLOYEES BRAND ADVOCATES by retweeting
     or products on social networks2,               any time they mention how great it is to work at your company.

     Twitter provides a unique marketing       7    PROMOTE UPCOMING CAREER FAIRS by linking to a place
                                                    where job seekers can register or get more information.
     opportunity for companies that
     utilize it effectively.                 Twitter’s benefits lie in its simplicity: the 140 character limit helps keep messages
                                             concise while its real-time feature makes it easy to push out job openings. The
                                             challenge with Twitter, however, is that it offers little to no ability to target
     1 Google Analytics, July 2010
                                             candidates, has no ad platform, and offers minimal reach, as it has yet to adopt
     2   2010 Arbitron/Edison study          a mainstream audience.

                                             How frequently you choose to update your Twitter page is up to you; however, with
                                             Twitter, quality matters over quantity. Don’t simply link to job postings all day:
                                             Send updates on exciting company news with a link to a press release or news story.
                                             Invite job seekers to visit your careers site or ask questions about employment and
                                             company life in general.
10
LINKED IN


                                                        SO YOU’VE SET UP LINKEDIN PROFILE PAGE.

       With over 75 million members
       in over 200 countries and
                                                        NOW WHAT?
       territories around the world1,                   Unlike with Facebook and Twitter, users can’t ‘fan’ or follow
                                                        your company’s page, but you – and your employees – can utilize
       LinkedIn is a free professional                  your connections to make new ones and source candidates.
       networking site that enables
       members to post their resumes,                    1   POST LINKS to job openings to your profile or to
       recommendations from friends                          exciting company news.

       and connect with other industry
       professionals. One in 20 U.S.                     2   JOIN INDUSTRY GROUPS within the site and start or
                                                             participate in discussions within these groups.
       users is a recruiter, headhunter,
       or HR professional.2                              3   SOURCE POTENTIAL CANDIDATES by responding
                                                             to or messaging professional contact through InMail.
       1 LinkedIn.com
       2 LinkedIn site search conducted July 29, 2009    4   REQUEST AN INTRODUCTION to a potential
                                                             candidate through a mutual connection.




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NICHE SITES:
THINKING OUTSIDE THE FACEBOOKS
                                                                                    SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS:
Don’t feel that you have to be on Facebook, Twitter or
LinkedIn in order to recruit successfully. Many other social
                                                                                         CLUBLINK
networking sites exist that offer their own unique value to recruiters and hiring    ClubLink, which offers premiere golf
                                                                                        club memberships to play world-
managers because they cater to smaller, more focused groups. These sites can be
                                                                                     class golf courses around the country,
especially useful to employers trying to source candidates with unique or highly     wanted to target a new audience with
specialized skill sets that may be harder to navigate in larger communities. Here        their job opportunities in several
are just a few of the examples of various social networking sites out there:             locations, as well as promote the
                                                                                    ClubLink brand. With a need to quickly
SOCIAL NETWORKS            VIDEO/AUDIO CASTING            VIDEO SHARING              replace the many staff members who
MySpace, Bebo, Hi5         Kyte, BlogTalkRadio            YouTube, blip.tv,            would be returning to school in the
                                                                                    fall, ClubLink turned to CareerBuilder
                                                          metacafe, viddler             for help sourcing new candidates.
NICHE NETWORKS             EVENT POSTING                                             CareerBuilder provided a customized
Plaxo, Ning,               Socializr, Acteva, Zvents                                    Facebook campaign for ClubLink,
                                                                                    which included integrating ClubLink’s
                                                                                       job postings on CareerBuilder.com.
PICTURE SHARING            DOCUMENT SHARING
                                                                                          Immediately after beginning its
Flickr, Zoom, Phanfare     docstoc, scribd, slideshare                               Facebook campaign, ClubLink started
                                                                                       to receive more resumes, and saw a
                                                                                    significant increase in traffic to its Web
                                                                                    site as well – from both consumers and
                                                                                     job seekers. According to a company
                                                                                        spokesman, “The [CareerBuilder]
                                                                                        Facebook product is the only tool
                                                                                      we have used that amalgamated our
                                                                                      recruiting and advertising budgets.”




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A blog, or Web log, is a Web site containing user-
                      generated commentary, graphics, and/or video.
                      What sets blogs apart from traditional media is their emphasis on user
                      interaction. Their success rate is gauged by their ability to generate
                      meaningful reader comments, a high quantity of unique and returning


     AND DON’T
                      visitors, and links from other blogs and Web sites. Blogs have at least
                      one “owner,” but many have several commentators contributing to site



     FORGET
                      content.

                      Blogs also create a branding opportunity for companies: According to


     BLOGGING:
                      2008 Forrester Research, 36 percent of online users think more positively
                      about companies that blog. In addition to attracting customers, blogs
                      can be effective in attracting candidates, as potential employees can
                      find out what your company culture is like on a real and personal level
                      and garner information that they can’t necessarily obtain from a face-
                      to-face interview or a Google search. Your company blog can also give
                      candidates an avenue by which to communicate and build relationships
        A QUICK AND   with each other and, more importantly, with you.

        DIRTY GUIDE   Finally, if you have a presence on other social networking sites, you can
                      leverage that presence to link to and drive traffic from these sites to your
                      company’s blog. This type of activity pulls your overall social media
                      strategy together, broadening your reach and strengthening your overall
                      presence in the social media space.

                        For guidance – or to see the various ways in which companies use
                        blogs to communicate – try visiting one of these corporate blogs:
                        http://www.libertytax.com/taxlounge/blogs/
                        http://www.century21.ca/Blog
                        http://www.henkel-smile-blog.com/
                        http://www.sodexocareersblog.com/

                      SETTING UP YOUR OWN BLOG IS SIMPLE. The following blog
                      hosting sites are easy-to-navigate and user-friendly (and free!):
13                    Typepad.com, Blogger.com, Wordpress.com
1 SET A GOAL: Like                   2 MASTER ONE                      3 MANAGE YOUR ONLINE
                     any business initiative,             MEDIUM: Social media              REPUTATION: Social media is
                     setting a strategy before            can be overwhelming,              about word-of-mouth marketing.
                     delving into social                  so aim to master one              Use your online profile to discuss
                     media is critical to                 medium – a Facebook               the unique benefits of working at




TOP
                     success. Defining your               page, a Twitter account, a        your company, promote recognition
                     goal for using social                blog – before expanding           the company has received and




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                     media is step one.                   to other platforms.               publish employee success stories.

                     4 CREATE A USER                     5 LISTEN, LEARN AND                6 HIGHLIGHT SPECIFIC
                     EXPERIENCE: Social media is         ENGAGE: The most important         JOBS: Go beyond posting all
                     about creating an open dialogue     thing you can do on any site       your job openings: Provide
                     and building relationships          is to listen to your audience      talent unique information
                     with others. Create a space         – both what they are saying        about the company itself.
                     where current and potential         to you and what they are           Help candidates understand
                     employees can interact – sharing    saying about you. Don’t be         why your company is the
                     success stories about working       afraid to respond: There is no     right place for them.
                     with your organization – and        better way to build trust with
                     responding to job seekers’          your community.
                     questions.
BEST PRACTICES FOR
USING SOCIAL MEDIA
                     7 VISUALLY STIMULATE:               8 BOOST YOUR                       9 PREPARE TO CHANGE:
                     Incorporate photos and videos       RANKINGS: Having                   Be flexible to change. Social
TO RECRUIT           on your site to get your
                     audience’s attention. The
                                                         a presence on social media
                                                         sites will organically boost
                                                                                            media is constantly evolving.
                                                                                            Be on the lookout for new
                     visual stimulation will make        your online profile in             sites cropping up, and don’t
                     your company stand out.             search rankings.                   be afraid to test the waters.

                     10 PROMOTE YOUR BRAND: Promote your presence once you are up and running on the social
                     media platforms of your choice. Place links on your Web site, put them in your email signature, highlight
                     them in marketing campaigns, and even send links to become fans, friends, or followers in application
                     confirmation emails.




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12 BENEFITS OF EFFECTIVE
                          SOCIAL MEDIA RECRUITING
     1 BETTER CANDIDATE QUALITY. Candidates who frequently use                     7 HIGHER RESPONSE RATES. Because there is less spam and
        social networks are not only tech-savvy, but they can keep up with the        in most cases you must be invited before you can send a message,
        trend toward social media.                                                    using social networks to communicate can result in better response
                                                                                      rates when you send messages to prospects and candidates.
     2 BETTER ROI. The dollar value of the program’s benefits may far              8 MORE IMPACTFUL MESSAGING. Messages sent over social
        exceed its cost, and the resulting ROI may be significantly higher than
        other recruiting programs.                                                    media channels are often perceived as more authentic or credible
                                                                                      than traditional corporate mechanisms. The low cost of sending
     3 SHORTER TIME-TO-HIRE. Social media allows for immediate                        messages over social networks also enables you to increase the
                                                                                      number of messages you send.
        response across multiple channels, so you can fill positions faster,
        lowering time-to-hire.
                                                                                   9 LOWER DROPOUT RATES. The relationships you’ve established
     4 A WIDER, MORE DIVERSE POOL OF TALENT. Social                                   with your “friends” in order to maintain them as part of your
                                                                                      social network may lower the candidate dropout rate.
        networking could help you get in front of candidates whom you
        may never find – or who may never find you – using other methods.
                                                                                  10 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. Using social networks gives
     5 STRONGER EMPLOYER BRAND. Using social networks increases                       your organization a competitive advantage over other talent
                                                                                      competitors who aren’t using the space.
        your visibility among job seekers and enables you multiple platforms
        on which to communicate information about your company culture
        and the benefits of working for your organization.                        11 BETTER CANDIDATE SCREENING. A 2009 CareerBuilder
                                                                                      survey showed that 45 percent of hiring managers have used
     6 STRONGER COLLEGE IMPACT. Because of the high social                            social networking sites to research job candidates’ backgrounds.
        network usage rates among college students, it may directly impact
        the number and the quality of college hire and entry-level candidates.    12 INCREASED EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY. Research has shown
                                                                                      that social technologies can build closer links among employees,
                                                                                      and potential customers, boosting productivity, innovation and
                                                                                      creating a more democratic working environment.




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BELOW ARE SOME SUGGESTED GUIDELINES.
                                                                              FEEL FREE TO USE IT AS A TEMPLATE FOR YOUR OWN.

                                                                              • CONSIDER YOUR PERSONA: If you are blogging about
                                                                                CB or the work you do at CB, make that clear and identify
                                                                                yourself. If you identify yourself as a CB employee on a
                                                                                personal blog or social media page, whatever you say will



     SETTING UP A
                                                                                be associated to you as an employee. What you write about
                                                                                can be read by anyone and will be perceived as a reflection
                                                                                on the company, its employees, its leadership, its owners
                                                                                and its clients. This includes blind/anonymous posts using

     SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY                                                        name such as “CB person,” “CBconsultant,” “CBemp,” etc.

                                                                              • PLAY IN YOUR SANDBOX: Write what you know; be current
     Afraid of saying – or tweeting – the wrong thing?                          and be relevant. This is the best way to be interesting and
                                                                                garner followers. Don’t speak about an area outside of your
     Drafting written guidelines or creating a social media                     expertise; you risk being challenged, posting redundant
     policy – and communicating that policy throughout                          content and negating the other CB messaging out there.
     the organization – will direct responsible employee                      • RESPECT OTHERS: Do not use personal insults, obscenities
     engagement across social networking platforms.                             or engage in conduct that would not be acceptable in the
     When creating your social media policy, remember                           workplace or anywhere else. Be considerate of other people’s
                                                                                sensitivities to certain topics like politics or religion.
     two very important things:
                                                                              • DON’T PICK FIGHTS: If you see CB represented in an
     Make sure your employees know that you have the right to monitor           unfavorable light, disagree with someone’s opinion or think
     employee use of social media regardless of location (i.e. at work on a     a member of the media, analyst or blogger has misrepresented
     company computer or on personal time with a home computer).                CB, do not make unnecessary or unproductive comments.
                                                                                Check with Leadership or Corporate Communications
     Remind employees that company policies on anti-harassment, ethics          teams to see what their response is, if any. If they choose not
     and company loyalty extend to all forms of communication (including        to respond, but give you the ok to do so, be factual and
     social media) – both inside and outside the workplace – and that           respectful in your response.
     bad mouthing the organization or colleagues online can lead to
     consequences at work.                                                    • DON’T TALK ABOUT THE COMPETITION: Period.
                                                                                Again, leave that to the Leadership or Corporate
                                                                                Communications teams.

                                                                              • INTERNET VS. INTRANET: Remember that public blogs
                                                                                are just that: public. Don’t use a public forum as an intranet.
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SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS:
     SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS:                      DAN TEMPS
     YELLOWBOOK                                      Looking to increase its brand recognition with
                                                     hiring managers across the different
                                                     industries the company serves, Dan Temps,
      With the help of CareerBuilder, Yellowbook,
                                                     a full-service staffing agency, enlisted
      the #1 independent publisher of yellow
                                                     CareerBuilder to help them integrate social
      pages directories in the country, has
                                                     media into its existing efforts to work
      begun a targeted media campaign on
                                                     towards their goals of increased branding
      Facebook to increase awareness to               and efficient communication. After working
      the more than 12.5 million sales and            with CareerBuilder to build a page on
      marketing professionals on the site.            Facebook, Dan Temps was able to integrate
     Consistently ranked by Selling Power             their CareerBuilder Job Postings, and drive
     magazine as one of the 50 Best Companies         traffic to this platform by targeting keywords
     to Sell For in the service sector, Yellowbook    in their top markets with Facebook
     has been able to bring in top new media          engagement ads. After three months, Dan
     consultants to grow its business through         Temps gained over 600 fans. Dan Temps
     its partnership with CareerBuilder.              engaged fans using media campaigns to
     Employing this new media strategy has             drive traffic to its page, sharing relevant
     helped Yellowbook rise to one of the              content and interacting on this platform
     most recognized brands in the United              daily to create a more open and casual
     States and an employer of choice.                 environment. Additionally, Dan Temps saw a
                                                       500 percent increase in direct applications to
                                                       their CareerBuilder Job Postings.




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NAVIGATION AND
     TROUBLESHOOTING: FAQs
     1   HOW DO I PREVENT MY EMPLOYEES FROM WASTING VALUABLE WORK HOURS ON
         SOCIAL NETWORKS? If used right, social networking’s benefits can far outweigh its downfalls:
         Studies have shown that piloting looser controls on social network activity found between 40%-65%
         of activity posted during work hours was professional in nature; the majority either requesting or
         sharing information from/with peers.

     2   WHAT IF SOMEONE LEAVES A NEGATIVE COMMENT ON ONE OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA
         SITES? Remember that people are already talking about your brand regardless of whether you’re in the
         social media space or not. Being in the social media space enables you to respond to that criticism and
         steer the conversation in the right direction. Such feedback can be helpful insight into applicant
         experience and job seekers’ perceptions of you.

     3   HOW CAN I POSSIBLY DEVOTE TIME TO THIS? Because social media management involves a time
         commitment, it’s not uncommon for companies these days to either outsource or hire someone to manage
         their social media marketing and recruitment efforts.

     4   WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN? Start small. Create a blog or choose one site and teach yourself – or have
         someone else teach you – how to use the various applications and features. (For inspiration and guidance,
         check out other companies’ social networking pages or blogs.) Once you get comfortable in one space, try
         moving on to another.

     5   WHAT IF ONE OF MY EMPLOYEES SAYS THE WRONG THING OR RELEASES PRIVATE
         COMPANY INFORMATION? By developing a formal process for identifying and countering
         undesirable information on the Internet, you can prevent many of these issues. (See “From Business
         Tool to Recruitment Tool: Using Social Media to Update Your Employer Status” on page 16.)

     6   WHAT IS THE EXACT ROI FROM SOCIAL MEDIA? You can’t measure the ROI of your social media
         efforts until you’ve defined your goal: What do you hope to gain from using social media? If, for example,
         your goal is to increase applications using Facebook, you might be able to use a tracking program to
         measure how many candidates click through to job postings from your Facebook company page.


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     jobs and 32 million resumes. CareerBuilder works with the world’s
     top employers, providing resources for everything from employment
     branding and data analysis to HR consulting. More than 9,000 Web
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Users Guide To Talent Recruitment Through Social Media

  • 1. eet UPD ATE STAT US Will Tw alent for T
  • 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2-3 Logging On: What is Social Media? 4 No, This is Not a Trend 5 Social Media’s Reach 6-7 From Business Tool to Recruitment Tool: Using Social Media to Update Your Employer Status 8-11 Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin: What to Know Before You Go Viral 12 Niche Sites: Thinking Outside the Facebooks 13 And Don’t Forget Blogging: A Quick and Dirty Guide 14 Top 10 Best Practices for Using Social Media to Recruit 15 12 Benefits of Effective Social Media Recruiting 16 Setting Up a Social Media Policy 17 Social Recruiting Success Stories 18 FAQs 19 About CareerBuilder® 1
  • 3. LOGGING ON: WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA? Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. MySpace. YouTube. Flickr. Wikipedia. These are all social networking sites – and they’re all part of what is now known as social media. What differentiates a social networking site from the typical Web site? Where the typical Web site might be controlled by one person or organization, with the purpose of simply pushing out information; social networking sites, on the other hand, invite users to actually respond. In fact, the vast majority of content on social networking sites (or social media) comes from the public itself. Web users have the most control over what content goes on the site, with free reign to log on and post comments, links, photos, videos or responses to other users’ posts. By encouraging interaction among users, these sites create an interactive experience that users do not get from a typical Web site. Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, in their book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, describe social networking as a “social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations.” 2
  • 4. LOGGING ON: SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS: WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA? YOH (continued from page 2) Two years ago, Yoh, one of the largest talent and outsourcing providers in the Over the past few years, however, social U.S., was searching for a new, innovative networking has evolved from a personal way to provide resources to job seekers, interest to a professional one. Increasingly, businesses so the agency embarked on a joint venture are finding ways to promote products and services, connect with with CareerBuilder to build its brand on customers, generate new ones and drive revenue – all through Facebook. Yoh’s goals were to provide social media. Even more recently, organizations are using social job seekers a variety of resources to enhance the online job search, and media not only to generate new customers, but to recruit new increase its brand awareness. In its first employees as well. After all, social media offers the opportunity year working with CareerBuilder to to engage in two-way conversations with job candidates. What create an integrated Facebook marketing better way to know how to attract top talent than to hear directly and recruiting campaign, Yoh received from them? nearly 3.5 million impressions and nearly 4,500 clicks on its fan page through two There’s one problem with Charlene Li and Josh ad campaigns. For Yoh‘s second ad Bernoff’s definition of social media: To refer to campaign with CareerBuilder, Yoh has received nearly 1,500 clicks. Of those, social media as a “trend” is to insinuate that it nearly 700 people became fans of Yoh will go away, but social media is in fact, here to after visiting, making the conversion rate stay. And if you let it, it can be one of the greatest of clicks to fans more than 44 percent. assets to your recruitment process. 3
  • 5. 48% of all Americans have social networking profiles – double the level from 20081 Americans spend nearly 1/4 of their online time on social networks2 Visiting social sites is now the most popular online activity – ahead of personal e-mail2 SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS: BUNAC NO, THIS IS NOT A TREND Bunac, a non-for-profit organization that specializes in sending young people on working holidays and 2 billion YouTube videos are viewed per day volunteer projects, wanted to cast a wider net to target a new audience as well as push their 79% of the top 100 Fortune 500 use Twitter, employment branding to generate Facebook, YouTube or corporate blogs3 referrals. Since partnering with CareerBuilder to create a targeted 93% of social media users advertising campaign through believe a company should have Facebook, Bunac’s referrals have a presence in social media.4 doubled, and the client continues to see the value in using Facebook to attract candidates. 85% of social media users believe that a company should go further than just having a presence on social sites and should also interact with its customers.4 1 2010 Arbitron/Edison research study 2 The Nielsen Company, 2010 3 Burson-Marsteller, The Global Social Media Check-up 2010 4 Cone, Business in Social Media Study, September 2008 4
  • 6. SOCIAL MEDIA’S REACH Monthly UV in U.S. in Millions Social Media Users 140 80% 120 70% 100 60% 80 50% 60 40% 40 30% 20 20% 0 10% ce In ok r 0% e d itt bo pa ke Tw 4 4 4 5 + ce yS Lin -2 -3 -4 -5 55 M Fa 15 25 35 45 Source: Graph 1: comScore data, July 2010. Graph 2: Nielsen Online, 2009 5
  • 7. FROM BUSINESS TOOL TO RECRUITMENT TOOL: USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO UPDATE YOUR EMPLOYER STATUS These days, it’s no longer unusual to receive PUBLIC RELATIONS AND MARKETING: Companies can push out information about new products, an email or visit a Web site and be directed to company news, special promotions and press releases to “connect with us!” through Facebook, Twitter, engage existing customers and generate new ones. LinkedIn or any number of social networking CUSTOMER SERVICE: sites. From your favorite grocery store to your Social media enables companies to “listen” to what users college’s alumni chapter to the place where are saying about the brand and respond in real-time to customer complaints on their blogs or company social you get your hair cut, nearly every type of media pages. organization today is finding a way to market its business, products and services using social INTERNAL COMMUNICATION: The use of internal blogs and social communities enable media. Here are just a few ways companies are colleagues to easily connect, share information and discuss using social media to promote their business: projects. Companies also use these platforms to keep employees up-to-date on important news, information and events – as well as address employee concerns and share valuable information. TALENT RECRUITMENT: Not only can companies push out job openings via social media and discuss the various benefits to working at their organization, but they can also directly respond to job seekers’ questions via wall-posts, direct messages, tweets or other forms of open messaging. Turn the page for more 6 on how businesses are using social media to recruit.
  • 8. FROM BUSINESS TOOL TO RECRUITMENT TOOL: USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO UPDATE YOUR EMPLOYER STATUS (continued from page 6) Just as they have with public relations and marketing, customer service and internal communication, businesses are now using social media as a recruitment tool. After all, what is recruiting if not another form of marketing? Both entail creating a message (What opportunities does my company provide?), targeting an audience (job seekers), and getting that audience to take an action (apply for positions at my company). This eBook is about how to use social media for talent recruitment. From how to start and where to begin to best practices and troubleshooting, let this eBook introduce you to a whole new way to attract and retain top talent. If you take only one thing away from this eBook, it should be this: People are central to social media and its success. They are the creators and the drivers of this platform, and the businesses and organizations that recruit successfully through social media do so because they use this space to interact with users on a personal level. While social networks aren’t a replacement for more traditional recruitment methods, with the high level of engagement they command, social networks have become more and more fundamental to the overall recruitment strategy. Not only does having a social networking page afford companies yet another avenue by which to advertise job openings, but it also enables them to have a two-way conversation with job seekers. The interactive element of social networking sites makes it easy to get feedback from or reply to job seekers questions via wall-posts, direct messages, tweets or other forms of open messaging. 7
  • 9. It’s nearly impossible to talk about social media without talking about Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. These three sites are among the fastest growing social networking FACEBOOK, TWITTER AND LINKEDIN: WHAT TO KNOW sites – and among the most popular sites recruiters and hiring managers are utilizing to build their talent BEFORE YOU GO VIRAL pipelines. The next few pages provide an overview of these sites, and how they provide resources that enable employers to find and recruit their next employees. 8
  • 10. FACEBOOK SO YOU’VE SET UP A FACEBOOK PAGE. Facebook is a social networking NOW WHAT? service that lets you connect with 1 TELL A STORY WITH PHOTOS – friends, co-workers, and others who Give visitors a virtual tour of your facilities, or a snapshot into your organizational culture, share similar interests or who by posting photos from company events or have common backgrounds. As the contributed by employees. most trafficked web site in the U.S., 2 HIGHLIGHT EMPLOYEE ACHIEVEMENTS, Facebook has over 540 million unique philanthropic involvement or fundraising efforts with status updates on your Facebook wall or writing “notes” visitors per month, reaching 35.2 that users can read. percent of the entire Internet population1 – giving the companies 3 POST LINKS TO STORIES AND PRESS RELEASES about exciting company news. that advertise on Facebook access to millions of job seekers on any given day. 4 LISTEN TO AND RECOGNIZE FANS by responding to wall posts and participating in discussion boards. Source: Google, May 2010 5 1 PROMOTE UPCOMING CAREER FAIRS with the “events” feature. 6 PROMOTE SPECIFIC JOB OPENINGS by sending a message to fans or via status updates. 9
  • 11. TWITTER SO YOU’VE SET UP A TWITTER PAGE. NOW WHAT? 1 INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO THE COMMUNITY. Twitter is a free micro-blogging site that enables users to send and 2 PROMOTE SPECIFIC JOB OPENINGS by sending out a link to your careers page or the job posting. receive messages – or “tweets” – of 3 SEARCH FOR YOUR COMPANY to see if others are mentioning up to 140 characters. With 21 million your company’s brand. unique U.S. visitors per month1, 4 POST LINKS TO STORIES AND PRESS RELEASES about Twitter’s popularity has grown exciting company news. exponentially since it launched in 5 LISTEN TO AND RECOGNIZE FANS by replying to them (either 2008. And with 51% of active Twitter publicly on your own wall or with a Direct Message) users following companies, brands 6 MAKE YOUR EMPLOYEES BRAND ADVOCATES by retweeting or products on social networks2, any time they mention how great it is to work at your company. Twitter provides a unique marketing 7 PROMOTE UPCOMING CAREER FAIRS by linking to a place where job seekers can register or get more information. opportunity for companies that utilize it effectively. Twitter’s benefits lie in its simplicity: the 140 character limit helps keep messages concise while its real-time feature makes it easy to push out job openings. The challenge with Twitter, however, is that it offers little to no ability to target 1 Google Analytics, July 2010 candidates, has no ad platform, and offers minimal reach, as it has yet to adopt 2 2010 Arbitron/Edison study a mainstream audience. How frequently you choose to update your Twitter page is up to you; however, with Twitter, quality matters over quantity. Don’t simply link to job postings all day: Send updates on exciting company news with a link to a press release or news story. Invite job seekers to visit your careers site or ask questions about employment and company life in general. 10
  • 12. LINKED IN SO YOU’VE SET UP LINKEDIN PROFILE PAGE. With over 75 million members in over 200 countries and NOW WHAT? territories around the world1, Unlike with Facebook and Twitter, users can’t ‘fan’ or follow your company’s page, but you – and your employees – can utilize LinkedIn is a free professional your connections to make new ones and source candidates. networking site that enables members to post their resumes, 1 POST LINKS to job openings to your profile or to recommendations from friends exciting company news. and connect with other industry professionals. One in 20 U.S. 2 JOIN INDUSTRY GROUPS within the site and start or participate in discussions within these groups. users is a recruiter, headhunter, or HR professional.2 3 SOURCE POTENTIAL CANDIDATES by responding to or messaging professional contact through InMail. 1 LinkedIn.com 2 LinkedIn site search conducted July 29, 2009 4 REQUEST AN INTRODUCTION to a potential candidate through a mutual connection. 11
  • 13. NICHE SITES: THINKING OUTSIDE THE FACEBOOKS SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS: Don’t feel that you have to be on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn in order to recruit successfully. Many other social CLUBLINK networking sites exist that offer their own unique value to recruiters and hiring ClubLink, which offers premiere golf club memberships to play world- managers because they cater to smaller, more focused groups. These sites can be class golf courses around the country, especially useful to employers trying to source candidates with unique or highly wanted to target a new audience with specialized skill sets that may be harder to navigate in larger communities. Here their job opportunities in several are just a few of the examples of various social networking sites out there: locations, as well as promote the ClubLink brand. With a need to quickly SOCIAL NETWORKS VIDEO/AUDIO CASTING VIDEO SHARING replace the many staff members who MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 Kyte, BlogTalkRadio YouTube, blip.tv, would be returning to school in the fall, ClubLink turned to CareerBuilder metacafe, viddler for help sourcing new candidates. NICHE NETWORKS EVENT POSTING CareerBuilder provided a customized Plaxo, Ning, Socializr, Acteva, Zvents Facebook campaign for ClubLink, which included integrating ClubLink’s job postings on CareerBuilder.com. PICTURE SHARING DOCUMENT SHARING Immediately after beginning its Flickr, Zoom, Phanfare docstoc, scribd, slideshare Facebook campaign, ClubLink started to receive more resumes, and saw a significant increase in traffic to its Web site as well – from both consumers and job seekers. According to a company spokesman, “The [CareerBuilder] Facebook product is the only tool we have used that amalgamated our recruiting and advertising budgets.” 12
  • 14. A blog, or Web log, is a Web site containing user- generated commentary, graphics, and/or video. What sets blogs apart from traditional media is their emphasis on user interaction. Their success rate is gauged by their ability to generate meaningful reader comments, a high quantity of unique and returning AND DON’T visitors, and links from other blogs and Web sites. Blogs have at least one “owner,” but many have several commentators contributing to site FORGET content. Blogs also create a branding opportunity for companies: According to BLOGGING: 2008 Forrester Research, 36 percent of online users think more positively about companies that blog. In addition to attracting customers, blogs can be effective in attracting candidates, as potential employees can find out what your company culture is like on a real and personal level and garner information that they can’t necessarily obtain from a face- to-face interview or a Google search. Your company blog can also give candidates an avenue by which to communicate and build relationships A QUICK AND with each other and, more importantly, with you. DIRTY GUIDE Finally, if you have a presence on other social networking sites, you can leverage that presence to link to and drive traffic from these sites to your company’s blog. This type of activity pulls your overall social media strategy together, broadening your reach and strengthening your overall presence in the social media space. For guidance – or to see the various ways in which companies use blogs to communicate – try visiting one of these corporate blogs: http://www.libertytax.com/taxlounge/blogs/ http://www.century21.ca/Blog http://www.henkel-smile-blog.com/ http://www.sodexocareersblog.com/ SETTING UP YOUR OWN BLOG IS SIMPLE. The following blog hosting sites are easy-to-navigate and user-friendly (and free!): 13 Typepad.com, Blogger.com, Wordpress.com
  • 15. 1 SET A GOAL: Like 2 MASTER ONE 3 MANAGE YOUR ONLINE any business initiative, MEDIUM: Social media REPUTATION: Social media is setting a strategy before can be overwhelming, about word-of-mouth marketing. delving into social so aim to master one Use your online profile to discuss media is critical to medium – a Facebook the unique benefits of working at TOP success. Defining your page, a Twitter account, a your company, promote recognition goal for using social blog – before expanding the company has received and 10 media is step one. to other platforms. publish employee success stories. 4 CREATE A USER 5 LISTEN, LEARN AND 6 HIGHLIGHT SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE: Social media is ENGAGE: The most important JOBS: Go beyond posting all about creating an open dialogue thing you can do on any site your job openings: Provide and building relationships is to listen to your audience talent unique information with others. Create a space – both what they are saying about the company itself. where current and potential to you and what they are Help candidates understand employees can interact – sharing saying about you. Don’t be why your company is the success stories about working afraid to respond: There is no right place for them. with your organization – and better way to build trust with responding to job seekers’ your community. questions. BEST PRACTICES FOR USING SOCIAL MEDIA 7 VISUALLY STIMULATE: 8 BOOST YOUR 9 PREPARE TO CHANGE: Incorporate photos and videos RANKINGS: Having Be flexible to change. Social TO RECRUIT on your site to get your audience’s attention. The a presence on social media sites will organically boost media is constantly evolving. Be on the lookout for new visual stimulation will make your online profile in sites cropping up, and don’t your company stand out. search rankings. be afraid to test the waters. 10 PROMOTE YOUR BRAND: Promote your presence once you are up and running on the social media platforms of your choice. Place links on your Web site, put them in your email signature, highlight them in marketing campaigns, and even send links to become fans, friends, or followers in application confirmation emails. 14
  • 16. 12 BENEFITS OF EFFECTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA RECRUITING 1 BETTER CANDIDATE QUALITY. Candidates who frequently use 7 HIGHER RESPONSE RATES. Because there is less spam and social networks are not only tech-savvy, but they can keep up with the in most cases you must be invited before you can send a message, trend toward social media. using social networks to communicate can result in better response rates when you send messages to prospects and candidates. 2 BETTER ROI. The dollar value of the program’s benefits may far 8 MORE IMPACTFUL MESSAGING. Messages sent over social exceed its cost, and the resulting ROI may be significantly higher than other recruiting programs. media channels are often perceived as more authentic or credible than traditional corporate mechanisms. The low cost of sending 3 SHORTER TIME-TO-HIRE. Social media allows for immediate messages over social networks also enables you to increase the number of messages you send. response across multiple channels, so you can fill positions faster, lowering time-to-hire. 9 LOWER DROPOUT RATES. The relationships you’ve established 4 A WIDER, MORE DIVERSE POOL OF TALENT. Social with your “friends” in order to maintain them as part of your social network may lower the candidate dropout rate. networking could help you get in front of candidates whom you may never find – or who may never find you – using other methods. 10 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. Using social networks gives 5 STRONGER EMPLOYER BRAND. Using social networks increases your organization a competitive advantage over other talent competitors who aren’t using the space. your visibility among job seekers and enables you multiple platforms on which to communicate information about your company culture and the benefits of working for your organization. 11 BETTER CANDIDATE SCREENING. A 2009 CareerBuilder survey showed that 45 percent of hiring managers have used 6 STRONGER COLLEGE IMPACT. Because of the high social social networking sites to research job candidates’ backgrounds. network usage rates among college students, it may directly impact the number and the quality of college hire and entry-level candidates. 12 INCREASED EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY. Research has shown that social technologies can build closer links among employees, and potential customers, boosting productivity, innovation and creating a more democratic working environment. 15
  • 17. BELOW ARE SOME SUGGESTED GUIDELINES. FEEL FREE TO USE IT AS A TEMPLATE FOR YOUR OWN. • CONSIDER YOUR PERSONA: If you are blogging about CB or the work you do at CB, make that clear and identify yourself. If you identify yourself as a CB employee on a personal blog or social media page, whatever you say will SETTING UP A be associated to you as an employee. What you write about can be read by anyone and will be perceived as a reflection on the company, its employees, its leadership, its owners and its clients. This includes blind/anonymous posts using SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY name such as “CB person,” “CBconsultant,” “CBemp,” etc. • PLAY IN YOUR SANDBOX: Write what you know; be current Afraid of saying – or tweeting – the wrong thing? and be relevant. This is the best way to be interesting and garner followers. Don’t speak about an area outside of your Drafting written guidelines or creating a social media expertise; you risk being challenged, posting redundant policy – and communicating that policy throughout content and negating the other CB messaging out there. the organization – will direct responsible employee • RESPECT OTHERS: Do not use personal insults, obscenities engagement across social networking platforms. or engage in conduct that would not be acceptable in the When creating your social media policy, remember workplace or anywhere else. Be considerate of other people’s sensitivities to certain topics like politics or religion. two very important things: • DON’T PICK FIGHTS: If you see CB represented in an Make sure your employees know that you have the right to monitor unfavorable light, disagree with someone’s opinion or think employee use of social media regardless of location (i.e. at work on a a member of the media, analyst or blogger has misrepresented company computer or on personal time with a home computer). CB, do not make unnecessary or unproductive comments. Check with Leadership or Corporate Communications Remind employees that company policies on anti-harassment, ethics teams to see what their response is, if any. If they choose not and company loyalty extend to all forms of communication (including to respond, but give you the ok to do so, be factual and social media) – both inside and outside the workplace – and that respectful in your response. bad mouthing the organization or colleagues online can lead to consequences at work. • DON’T TALK ABOUT THE COMPETITION: Period. Again, leave that to the Leadership or Corporate Communications teams. • INTERNET VS. INTRANET: Remember that public blogs are just that: public. Don’t use a public forum as an intranet. 16
  • 18. SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS: SOCIAL RECRUITING SUCCESS: DAN TEMPS YELLOWBOOK Looking to increase its brand recognition with hiring managers across the different industries the company serves, Dan Temps, With the help of CareerBuilder, Yellowbook, a full-service staffing agency, enlisted the #1 independent publisher of yellow CareerBuilder to help them integrate social pages directories in the country, has media into its existing efforts to work begun a targeted media campaign on towards their goals of increased branding Facebook to increase awareness to and efficient communication. After working the more than 12.5 million sales and with CareerBuilder to build a page on marketing professionals on the site. Facebook, Dan Temps was able to integrate Consistently ranked by Selling Power their CareerBuilder Job Postings, and drive magazine as one of the 50 Best Companies traffic to this platform by targeting keywords to Sell For in the service sector, Yellowbook in their top markets with Facebook has been able to bring in top new media engagement ads. After three months, Dan consultants to grow its business through Temps gained over 600 fans. Dan Temps its partnership with CareerBuilder. engaged fans using media campaigns to Employing this new media strategy has drive traffic to its page, sharing relevant helped Yellowbook rise to one of the content and interacting on this platform most recognized brands in the United daily to create a more open and casual States and an employer of choice. environment. Additionally, Dan Temps saw a 500 percent increase in direct applications to their CareerBuilder Job Postings. 17
  • 19. NAVIGATION AND TROUBLESHOOTING: FAQs 1 HOW DO I PREVENT MY EMPLOYEES FROM WASTING VALUABLE WORK HOURS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS? If used right, social networking’s benefits can far outweigh its downfalls: Studies have shown that piloting looser controls on social network activity found between 40%-65% of activity posted during work hours was professional in nature; the majority either requesting or sharing information from/with peers. 2 WHAT IF SOMEONE LEAVES A NEGATIVE COMMENT ON ONE OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES? Remember that people are already talking about your brand regardless of whether you’re in the social media space or not. Being in the social media space enables you to respond to that criticism and steer the conversation in the right direction. Such feedback can be helpful insight into applicant experience and job seekers’ perceptions of you. 3 HOW CAN I POSSIBLY DEVOTE TIME TO THIS? Because social media management involves a time commitment, it’s not uncommon for companies these days to either outsource or hire someone to manage their social media marketing and recruitment efforts. 4 WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN? Start small. Create a blog or choose one site and teach yourself – or have someone else teach you – how to use the various applications and features. (For inspiration and guidance, check out other companies’ social networking pages or blogs.) Once you get comfortable in one space, try moving on to another. 5 WHAT IF ONE OF MY EMPLOYEES SAYS THE WRONG THING OR RELEASES PRIVATE COMPANY INFORMATION? By developing a formal process for identifying and countering undesirable information on the Internet, you can prevent many of these issues. (See “From Business Tool to Recruitment Tool: Using Social Media to Update Your Employer Status” on page 16.) 6 WHAT IS THE EXACT ROI FROM SOCIAL MEDIA? You can’t measure the ROI of your social media efforts until you’ve defined your goal: What do you hope to gain from using social media? If, for example, your goal is to increase applications using Facebook, you might be able to use a tracking program to measure how many candidates click through to job postings from your Facebook company page. 18
  • 20. ABOUT CAREERBUILDER® CareerBuilder is the global leader in human capital solutions, helping companies target and attract their most important asset – their people. Its online career site, CareerBuilder.com®, is the largest in the United States with more than 23 million unique visitors, 1 million jobs and 32 million resumes. CareerBuilder works with the world’s top employers, providing resources for everything from employment branding and data analysis to HR consulting. More than 9,000 Web sites, including 140 newspapers and broadband portals such as MSN and AOL, feature CareerBuilder’s proprietary job search technology on their career sites. Owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Tribune Company, The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), CareerBuilder and its subsidiaries operate in the United States, Europe, Canada and Asia. Employer Blog: www.thehiringsite.com CareerBuilder for Employers: www.twitter.com/CBforEmployers CareerBuilder for Employers: www.facebook.com/CBforEmployers 19