‘While many vendors offer some mobile recruiting capability, txthire has been designed to meet the needs of candidates who may not have a PC or a smartphone. Graylink has taken this constraint and innovated with it.’ Gartner Not all prospective employees have access to the internet, making it difficult to provide an inclusive process for [...]
What is Recruitment 2.0 exactly? Is it worth the investment in time, money and resources? And can it really deliver on all the great things it promises, or is it just peddling snake oil? Mark Gray, head of cloud-recruiting company, graylink, believes that using the Internet an integral part of a recruitment strategy to source [...]
Presented by Reuben Goldberg, The Internet Economy show on Classic FM, features Mark Gray, CEO of graylink who talks about the concept of Recruitment 2.0.
Staff spending all day on Facebook? Twitter driving you dilly? Social networking tools may not be the timewasters you think they are.
The traditional job board business model is outdated, making it unable to compete with the innovation and cost savings of search engines and social media. Employers that are exclusively focusing on job boards for recruitment will come up short in the war for talent as generalised job boards are losing their effectiveness.
Mark Gray, head of online recruitment specialists, Graylink says Twitter is the latest buzz on the hiring scene as employers are turning to social networking platforms to supplement their traditional methods of searching for talent.
Social networking sites are the new recruitment platform.
Professional recruiters have started using social networking platforms such as Facebook, Orkut, MySpace and Linkedin, to hunt for candidates. These sites are also helping job hunters market themselves online by providing potential employers with access to profiles, work history and specific skills lists.
Perception in the business world is crucial to landing a job or even earning a promotion. It’s important that you build a professional persona that assures your peers that you’re more than capable of fulfilling the tasks required.
Has the corporate world hopped onto the social networking bandwagon? And more importantly, why should it?
Social networking is relevant as more than just a tool to interact with customers, however. Says Graylink head Mark Gray: “Social networking offers faster, cheaper and more effective communication, networking and collaboration, especially when it comes to recruitment. Compared with the cost of newspaper recruitment classifieds, social networking sites are much cheaper to push out information about a company.
Easily segmentable groups of very active audiences on these sites make it easier to reach the right people than the untargeted approach of newspaper advertising. Additionally, the neutral environment social networks provide to share information makes it much easier for companies to start conversations with top candidates, as they don’t feel they’re being sold to.”
