Webinar | Effective Social Media Adverts for Recruitment | 17 Aug 2016

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Social Media Adverts –  NOT Job Descriptions

Job descriptions are not designed to sell you the job, they are there to explain the function of the job. In this webinar we will show you what tools to make free images for your social ads and what are the dos and donts.

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Finding Hidden Candidates Online – Carin Lightstone

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Wesley Madziva aka #WesleySocial is a Social Media maverick. His dynamic speaking style enlivened the room, causing even belly-full recruiters at KR’s Electronic Recruitment Conference to perk up and listen as he shared his unique methods for finding candidates who would otherwise remain hidden through social media. As he speaks, he “retweets” quotes from conference participants and other speakers, mimicking the online interactive style of social media marketers.

Often, LinkedIn account holders intentionally hide their profiles from recruiters by misspelling their job titles. Wesley finds them using misspellings: A search for “acountant” rather than “accountant” yields profiles that recruiters using traditional search methods would miss.
Instead of searching for candidates by job title or skill, he searches exactly what they do [e.g bending schedules and drawings], unearthing candidates who might otherwise stayed buried.

He scours diverse social media platforms for his ideal candidates. He has found candidates who are unaware that they have Google Plus accounts, through their Gmail Accounts. All the candidate needs to have entered is a name, and what it is that they do. [By the way: If you have a gmail account, you have a Google Plus account.] He has found candidates using information they’ve entered into the “hometown” and “professional skills” fields on Facebook. He even finds candidates through photo sharing platform Instagram.

Tools such as Followerwonk, Recruitin.net, Socialtalent.co and Intel-sw.com enable him to search social platforms, but his favourite search tool for doing so remains Google. The functions of this powerful search engine are free to use, and Boolean search strings can be used to make Google searches highly specific.

For example, “site:za.LinkedIn.com” specifies that Google should search LinkedIn only.“Intitle:accountant” specifies that only this title should be searched for within the site. The minus symbol specifies which terms to exclude, e.g. “-Trainee”. He boasts that Google enables him to circumvent the need for paid tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter.

This Article was published by Carin on The HR Pulse Site. Click Here for article

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Carin Lightstone | Senior Facilitator at The 2Q Institute

#WesleySocial Receives Lots of Love from #EREC2016

 

 

Download the APSO 2016 Conference Brochure #APSO2016

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           Download The APSO 2016 Conference Brochure

The APSO Conference 2016 will be held on 8 & 9 June at the Indaba Hotel & Conference Centre situated North of Sandton, Johannesburg, a picturesque venue, nestled beneath the vista of the magnificent Magaliesberg Mountains. The Hashtag for the Conference is #APSO2016… See You There!

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#WesleySocial speaks at E-Recruitment Conference May 2016

Thank you very much to Knowledge Resources for the invite to be one of their E-Recruitment Conference Speakers. We are going to have another packed 60mins! The conference is a two day event 18-19 May 2016 at Indaba Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre, Fourways | JHB.

To view more details on venue, speakers, sponsors and to book click —> E-Recruitment Conference 2016 #EREC2016

It’s time to find out more about e-recruitment and how to fit it into your HR practices. The emphasis must be on making your e-recruitment strategy more efficient through new methods and approaches! The influence of digital, social and mobile developments is big and ever changing. This means that HR professionals need to think and act strategically and combine the power of social media; job boards and application processing technology in order to win the war on talent. The E-Recruitment Conference offers both recruiters and marketer’s insight into every
facet of e-recruitment, what works and what it could mean for you. Walk away knowing you can implement an e-recruitment strategy tomorrow, know the suppliers and learn from the experts that have implemented world class strategies.

View the Conference Brochure —> E-Recruitment-LR-Brochure

I will be looking at a Case Study and presenting other cool stuff as always. See you there!

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Why Gauteng has higher salaries..

One of our clients asked this Question: How do people residing in the Western Cape and KZN, doing the same job with the same tools etc, earn up to 20% less than Gauteng? via Taryn. So I went to my social networks and posed the same question. Below are the responses .. (full names not used unless where approval has been granted)

  • Jay – Cost of living is higher in Gauteng
  • Erika – Accommodation is much more expensive in Western Cape
  • Fritz – Because Cape Town have the mooooountain.
  • Johann – I think they only get up to speed after 10:00 am en they’re on the beach by 15:00.
    So they get paid for half day. Calling it a full time job makes them feel great.
  • Pieter – Productivity is a factor but then again is it worth the 20%?
  • Albert – Supply and demand is vastly different between the provinces also. My branch managers in Gauteng, Dbn and Cpt dont earn the same because we don’t bring in the same revenue at each branch.
  • Lisinda – They dont have to pay etolls
  • Stephan – Common sense says there’s more companies and more money here. More money more pay.
  • Julia – Because the standard of living in Johannesburg is higher and it is a known fact that in Johannesburg ,people tend to travel longer distances
  • Taryn – I understand Julia’s comment. The cost of living in Cape Town is quite high too….Durban not as much as JHB and CPT but a lot of workers commute from surrounding areas such as PMB to work in Durban too
  • Julia – I agree that the cost of living is high in Cape Town too but Johannesburg is by far the highest. Yea workers do commute in Durban but the distance travelled is not as far as the distances travelled in jhb and surrounds but yes very interesting topic to be discussed
  • Malcolm – Simply because you need to pay 20% more for people to want to live in JHB, they typically have to sacrifice coastal living and lifestyle aspects and substitute it with traffic and longer hours
  • Deon – Almost everything in Pretoria cost more, as it is brought up from the coast. even fuel is cheaper there…i don`t know how accurate your clients gesture is… But There is also more capital to go around here and almost everything is more expensive here… If your client stays here you can respond with, you earn 20% more, why should I….
  • Kenji – I am originally from Cape Town and moved to Johannesburg last year September, and the cost of living between the cities are high. Cape Town you don’t travel far distances to work etc, however in Johannesburg, it’s constant traffic, everything is far and even groceries are ridiculous. But I think, it should be fair to everyone that the salaries offered in both cities for certain positions should be the same
  • Nicky – 20% increase in JHB is like “danger pay”
  • Laurence – The generalisation would be smaller companies in KZN. Entrepreneurs will pay less than a blue chip. Also lower qualifications would play a role. What are our costs on recreation vs theirs? I think you’ll see we’ll outspend them by a big margin. Our healthcare costs are probably more too, due to our lifestyle and stress levels.
  • Jamie – The simple answer is that the cost of living in Johannesburg Metro is more than the other provinces. From the cost of groceries, travel, entertainment, eating out, fuel, taxes. This is one of the reasons why the Western Cape is booming and Gauteng is declining. A lot of companies are relocating to the Western Cape because of the lack of service delivery and governance but mainly because it is less expensive to run the business out of Gauteng
  • Njabulo – Well, JHB life is quite expensive. From renting an apartment to buying groceries. Transportation is a nightmare and more people drive here than they commute whereas in Durban, more especially, people commute and public transport is cheaper ……Most of the big name companies’ headquarters are based here.
  • Sean – Look at it in terms of an Expat Salary with an inconvenience allowance to live there.

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#WesleySocial South Africa’s Top Recruitment Instagram Accounts

I follow a few Staffing | Recruitment Instagram accounts and they are doing a fantastic job. If I have left out some, please share! And here we go in no particular order

  1. MultiSearch https://www.instagram.com/multisearch/

MultiSearch Instagram2. New Beginnings – https://www.instagram.com/nubeginningscs/

NuBeginnings Insta3. Express Employment Professionals SA – https://www.instagram.com/expresssouthafrica/

Express SA Insta4. Dalitso Consulting – https://www.instagram.com/dalitsoconsulting/

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