Visibility

Establish your presence in sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Orkut etc. Find out the relevant site for your target search. Join those sites. Bring enough traffic to your site. Provide all necessary feeds so that you can be searchable easily. This makes easier for people to reach you.

Socialise

Its very essential for a recruiter to get socialized. Participate in the discussions, conferences and recruitment events. Involve in the discussions, online groups, tweets etc. Increase your network and visibility. Share your thoughts, start new discussion threads and ask for opinions.

Knowledge

Recruiter must know all the current trends in the market. Knowledge on market information, client information and the current openings. Information about the client, their culture, their work, revenue are very essential. The current opening and the kind of people they require, the companies which work on similar skills helps to narrow the search and get right talent.

Uniqueness

Make your sites look interesting and unique. Add your hobbies, interests and your favorite topics. Give enough information about you. Make the background look interesting and good images. But at the same time looks simpler and easy to find. Add profile pictures. Make it such a way that others can easily find out who you really are.

Cautious

Sometime social networking and internet marketing creates nuisance to others. There are so many agencies which is going for e-marketing. People often get too many spams, too many unknown friend requests. Make sure that don’t just send add request and don’t keep spamming. It will not add any value to your profile. Instead, make it more personalised message. Make them realise that you are trying to help them rather you getting benefited from them. Most of the time people send friend requests and them keep asking about references. It might really annoy the one who added you in his list as you(unknown) just trying to get favours from them. Instead, involve him in the conversation, try to make him realise that you can also be helpful for him in different ways if not now but in the future. In such case he would like to be in touch with you always and might give you good references.

Its all about building good professional relationships and maintaining them.

Organisations growth depends upon its employees’ creativity and innovation. It is not always the skillsets they have, but how good they are in utilising efficiently with new ideas and make it successful. The productivity is directly proportional to the skillset and the innovation. It becomes necessary for the leader or manager to identify and provide good opportunity for his team to come up with new ideas and make use of each one’s strength.

Providing opportunity to think different

Organisations need to provide good opportunities to the employees to come up with innovative ideas. Opportunities can be created in different ways to identify the talent such as innovation challenges, brainstorming, open discussions. These events will help in identifying the individual talent. Companies should provide enough amount of such challenges to the employees and reward such talent. The organisation should be more transparent and open to take new ideas.

Increase the Knowledge

Talent and innovation come from knowledge. First the person has to build his knowledge and automatically it will lead to the creativity. Creativity is to make the existing things to work differently and effectively than new identification. So the person has to be exposed to more knowledge. Train them to the less exposed skills, provide ample opportunities for them to access information and adopt best practices. It also builds their confidence.

Teamwork

Each person is strong in particular skill. It is necessary to understand how these people can work as a team and increase the productivity. For example one person may be good in new ideas and another in execution. If they work together, it will result in successful product. The manager needs to understand how to utilise individual’s strength to make a strong team and increase the productivity.

Employee Satisfaction

Most of all, when company opens up and provides a platform for employee’s to showcase their talent, innovation and creativity, will boost employee satisfaction. Employees will feel wanted and find to be cared by the Employer. This will bring down the Company’s attrition rate and Employee loyalty will increase for sure.

As mentioned in the earlier blogs, most recruiters are adopting for creative method of recruiting. Facebook is one of such tools. It is necessary to understand how effectively we can use the features. One of the features is Facebook Events.

There are more than 300 million users in Facebook and more than 3.5 million Facebook events created on each month. Most of the users login regularly and keep updating the status, add comments and check latest updates. Utilise this to advertise recruitment news.

Create an event on Facebook. Provide details about the opportunity, your contact details so that candidate can reach to you if he is interested in the position. It is not necessary that you need to mention the company name if you are from recruitment agency. Instead, you can just mention about the details such as top telecom company or retail company etc. One can search people by their name, company, profession or education. You can share this event with your known network or these search results.

Many users change their security settings to avoid their professional details visible to others. In such case you may not able to find them and reach out to them. But they will be still able to view your event and if interested, they can contact you for further information. This is how we can target the hidden talent pool/ passive candidates.