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.
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 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.”
South African auditing firm BDO Spencer Steward has tapped into social networking with a Facebook campaign that is helping it recruit graduate students faster and more cost-effectively.
How to find a job using Facebook, Fair Lady Magazine, May 2009 Click the thumbnail below to view the article.
Job advertising has come a long way since the ‘help wanted’ sign. With globalisation, the Internet and media fragmentation exposing job seekers to more employment opportunities than ever before – but simultaneously making them harder to find – Human Resources managers are finding it increasingly difficult to get the top talent’s attention. The challenge is [...]
Mark Gray, of recruitment technology company Graylink, tells Penny Haw how job seekers and those looking to hire are increasingly finding each other online. From The Business Day, 9th Dec 2008 FORGET the credit crunch, what about the career crunch? A survey of graduates and students conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers last month found that 81% were [...]
