Social media recruitment, also known as social recruiting or social hiring, brings together the concept of recruitment into the world of social media through websites such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter.
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Let's assume you are running a recruiting business and you specialise in social hiring. With that in mind, we will highlight the interactive features you can introduce to your job site to ensure you maximise this opportunity on the internet. These interactive features and gadgets are normally called "plugins" or "widgets".
LinkedIn Plugins for your Recruitment Site
Building trust with employers and potential employees is essential, but let's face it, nobody trusts the internet. Therefore we recommend that you embed your LinkedIn profiles on your web page, because that will help to establish trust and make it easy for people to contact you.
Member Profile Plugin Generator
Company Profile Plugin Generator
We recommend you create 2 separate web pages for each of the LinkedIn plugins.
Embedding Facebook Functionality on your Job Site
Perhaps Facebook offers the greatest potential because of the range and scope of the social plugins they offer, and you can also factor in the huge number of users signed up to the world's largest social media platform.
At its simplest, you can consider adding a Like Button or a Share Button to any pages on your job site:
As you add jobs to your recruitment site, you can consider adding a Like Button and/or a Share Button to each job description, and this is what it looks like:
As a specialist in social recruitment, you will of course create your own Facebook Business Page or Facebook Group and we recommend you embed these pages onto a dedicated web page on your recruitment site. This is known as the Page Plugin:
This next feature can take your website to another level because you can add a Facebook Comments feature to any page on your website:
This means that Facebook users can comment on your web page, adding a new interactive dimension to your job site.
Twitter Widgets for your Recruitment Site
The Twitter Kit for Websites offers a number of interactive features you can consider for your social media job site.
Quick and simple, the Follow Button is a good place start if you want to attract more followers directly from your website:
A popular trend when posting a new job role is to tweet about it. If you embed a tweet on your web page, this is considered to be an effective way of raising the profile of the job posting itself and there is a possibility of attracting retweets:
Similar to the Facebook Page Plugin, Twitter offers an Embedded Timeline feature, allowing you to embed your entire Twitter timeline on your web page:
You could add a Follow Button or an Embedded Tweet to any web page, including job description pages, however the Timeline feature should have a prominent presence on your website and we recommend you create a separate web page and menu button for your Timeline.
How to Add Plugins & Widgets to your Job Site
Here is a simple step-by-step for adding plugin or widget code to your web page:
Did You Know?
You can try adding social media plugins and widgets using our free trial service. Whenever you edit any 'Page' in your trial site, you can add plugin and widget code, as per the guide above.
Just to confirm, the same technique for adding code works for other interactive features, such as PayPal payment buttons, YouTube videos, interactive maps, interactive calendars, language translation tools, etc.
Next Steps for Creating a Social Media Job Site
No sign-up or email registration is required and we invite you to use our free trial service to get a better understanding of how this works. We already have a template available at QuickontheNet.com to help get you started.
When you create a free trial, on the left side of the screen, please select:
...next, click 'Save' and your website will appear on screen.
Now please click 'Menu' (top left) and you will quickly understand the basics and learn how to build a new social media job board for your recruitment business.
Next, please try adding 3 new menu buttons and web pages for LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and you're on your way.
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