User:Mmloban/Recruiting 2.0

The evolution of Recruiting

Traditional recruiting has typically taken place over the following channels - newspaper and other printed ads - career fairs and events - school career centers - printed promotional materials

All these channels are still very important, and recently they have been augmented with a couple of other new channels such as agency career portals and internet job boards

Recruiting in the age of Web 2.0

- wikis - video sharing - social networks - blogs and personal pages - comments - community of interest sites - small niche job boards attached to blogs

What is Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. With these advanced capacities, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, are evolving.

Top Websites and how to use them

YouTube - create and distribute recruiting videos - create a YouTube channel - surf for commenters Blogs -Have been actively used by progressive employers for years -Used to attract individuals based on content that interests the highly qualified -39% of Internet users read blogs (2006) -24% of Gen Yers (18-26) read blogs (2006)