Its a great summary of the world right now in the UK recruitment, which I was reminded of last night when pitching some new ideas to an existing client.
- In 2009 the only people you have made money out of the Social Recruiting "thing" are the people who speak about it, either conferences or consultants or web companies.
- Evidence of it working (however you define that!) is really hard to find but are we looking in the correct place?
- It uses up time in a recruiters day that we cant track any more (or can we?)
Every time there is a shift in Technology there are opportunities to leap frog your competitors or to create a new product that doesn't exist yet. Social networking/recruiting/sourcing and how it works with recruitment is just one of those shifts! Like
- the posting of cv's moving to faxing cv's
- calling candidates at home at night to calling on the mobile
- faxing cv's machines moving to emailing cv's
- candidates seeing you adverts in the local paper to you website
- email cv's moving to cv portals
- job boards to free aggregation sites
- cv portals moving to direct XML feeds
- contacting candidates on IM to using Facebook
It is just another way of getting finding a candidate, putting them in touch with a hiring manager and then doing you job!
However you cannot avoid it as don't be the last people to get a fax machine!!!