Comments on: Twitter, recruiting, and job boards: round 2

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:46:08 +0000

Thanks for the article. I think this social networking/twitter thing is so silly. We hire all kinds of people and there is no way to do this using twitter or facebook…so silly. Thats the difference between the Wall Street Journal and….well everything else.

By: Sam Morse

Sam Morse — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:14:06 +0000

We use Twitter as a way to let people know about new articles, events, general regional employment market information, etc. Kind of like a micro-blog with links to the main content. We also manually post an occasional job – typically tough jobs to fill. We’re hoping our multiple message type approach will keep our twitter friends loyal. Even in the twitter universe, content is king.

By: David HR guy

David HR guy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:13:59 +0000

The Wall Street Journal wrote an article about the best Technologies to recruit, twitter was not even in the running –

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204475004574126832685403014.html

By: Shai Shefer

Shai Shefer — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:01:35 +0000

We tweet job postings in a similar fashion. I think that twitter is a great tool but it’s definitely being misused (by our company too).

Right now the majority of the companies out there use it as a glorified RSS feed. It’s convenient and easy to post things to twitter but everything is automated! Nearly everything we post at our account (twitter.com/funnelthru) gets pushed from our site and our blog – we try to supplement it with tweets but it’s obviously difficult.

Twitter is still messy for job seekers – even with all the search tools.

By: Paul Paris

Paul Paris — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:07:21 +0000

LinkedIn and Twitter are not user friendly to Recruiters or Applicants .Many people I speak with they feel that it has just replaced the Do Not Call List for spammers and advertisers. Have you ever joined a group on LinkedIn that discusses anything the group is supposed to be about. Do you ever go to Twitter and see all the links you need to go through to get to a Companies Website or Online App. People are looking for easy and neither of these sites offer that option.

By: Felipe Villasenor

Felipe Villasenor — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:20:13 +0000

@JohnSumser tweeted this article and I read it. I am glad to see you acknolwedge the fact that traditional social networks and Twitter are not necessarily “easy” from which to recruit talent. The underlying issue is that many of the users are not true friends and don’t have deep relationships with others.

Existing, or the potential to create, strong intimate relationships are the key to recruiting and a Talent Network is based on this premise. You need to be in an environment which fosters this potential to recruit and be recruited.

Intersting: Indeed.com (million of hits/month) has a Facebook (200 million users) app with only 2,900 active monthly users. Facebook is not considered by users to be an environment that fosters career promotion (a new job, a better job, etc.) thus the Indeed.com app is used by only 0.00145% of Facebook’s 200 million users on a monthly basis.

twitter.com/jfelipe33

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:27:24 +0000

Twitter, for some job boards, is nothing more than a fancy RSS feed.