HR 2.0
July 10, 2008 by Colleen Coplick
Filed under Social Media
Recently, Aaron Stout posted about his experiences in hiring someone the “new way”. There are new rules for everything these days.
Aaron learned a ton through his experiment, and about the candidates that he was talking to, following or otherwise looking at from a web 2.0 way.
He learned that there are several things that can benefit your business through by adopting an HR 2.0 method:
- Saving money (no external recruiters)
- Increasing your reach through social networks
- Assisting your future recruiting efforts by staying in touch with great candidates that you didn’t hire first go around
- Providing more information about candidates which can help with the “reference” work at the back end while up giving you a better up front “taste” of:
- writing style
- network size/quality,
- interactions with others
- Creating a way for candidates to get to know you and your company up front (this assumes that you and your company engage in some sort of social media activity – even if it’s a blog, LinkedIn account or podcast series).
You can check out all of Aaron’s observations and thoughts here
