Making Social Media Work in Recruiting - RecruitingTrends.com Webinar

March 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Join RecruitingTrends.com’s great line-up of experts on Wednesday, March 30th when Carmen Hudson Engagement Manager, Sourcing and Social Media Strategy at Recruiting Toolbox, Jennifer McClure President of Unbridled Talent share with you some of the most common considerations and elements when using social media to recruit top talent.

As a recruiter, you’re all about finding the right person for the right job at the right time and the quality of your talent pipeline is what makes you successful! You depend on access to several mediums to find the best candidates, and for many this includes social media. But how do you decide which of the many social media platforms and sites are right for you and your organization? And how do you stay current?

Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube to name a few are all great resources for sourcing and recruiting. Each platform has its own unique demographic and you’ll want to consider each audience when making the decision as to which application(s) will give you the best results in your sourcing and recruiting efforts.

During this 60 min event they will address:

•   How to Create an Online Presence – Reflecting Who You Are
•   How to Make the Most of Your ‘Social’ Time
•   Why it is important to Individualize Your Approach
•   The importance of staying Authentic
•   And much more

You will receive expert advice on proven success and failures using today’s Social Media platforms!

For more information on joining this webinar go here: http://www.recruitingtrends.com/making-social-media-work-...

About the Presenters:

Jennifer McClure, President, Unbridled Talent, LLC
(http://www.therecruitingconference.com/jennifer-mcclure)

Jennifer McClure is President of Unbridled Talent, LLC a Cincinnati based consulting firm providing services to clients in the areas of attracting, recruiting, developing & engaging key talent in their organizations. She is passionate about helping businesses to improve their people strategies through providing consulting and training services and she’s also a popular speaker who is regularly engaged to present at conferences, associations and to HR, Recruiting and leadership teams at a variety of organizations – including Fortune 100 clients.

Jennifer is an avid networker and community volunteer, serving on the Boards or Advisory Councils of SmartBrief on Workforce, Mercy Professional Services and Great Oaks Career Campuses. She serves as an Executive Mentor through Xavier University’s Executive Mentor Program and is also on the Mentor team at Cincinnati’s Start-Up Accelerator – The Brandery. Jennifer founded the LinkedIn Group LinkedCincinnati – a Cincinnati-based professional networking group with over 15,000 members and also co-founded the Cincinnati Recruiting Network for senior level HR and Recruiting professionals. She’s an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management and the Greater Cincinnati Human Resources Association and volunteers on GCHRA’s Staffing & Recruiting Committee and Communications Committee.

Carmen Hudson, Engagement Manager – Sourcing and Social Media Strategy

Carmen Hudson draws from over 15 years of recruiting experience, with a strong focus on helping organizations attract, source and recruit top talent. Carmen’s expertise is in helping clients build the right sourcing and recruiting strategies, and then implementing them in the real world of limited budgets, competing priorities, and highly competitive recruiting environments. She consults and trains companies to help them leverage high ROI solutions for big sourcing, social media, and technology implementation initiatives.

Carmen is a self-described “recruiting geek” who has spent years learning, creating, and sharing best practices around sourcing. She gets that technology – for all of its hype – is still a means to an end, not an end in itself. Her corporate experience includes Yahoo!, where she was Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition. At Yahoo! she led the strategic sourcing team, revitalizing the employee referral program and Yahoo’s employer brand. The team was awarded a coveted Yahoo! Superstar Award, an ERE Excellence award and various recruiting and advertising industry awards. Prior to joining Yahoo!, she was manager, Global Strategic Sourcing for Starbucks Coffee Corporation, where she developed sourcing strategies and recommended resources and tactics to support U.S. retail management hiring. She has also held senior talent acquisition roles at Microsoft, Amazon.com and Capital One and founded a social recruiting technology company.

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Join us on Wednesday, March 30 1 PM – 2 PM EDT for this insightful webinar
Registration fee waived

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RecruitingTrends.com reaches senior-level recruiters and human resource and talent management leaders within small, medium, and global enterprises and is the industry source for key decision makers and influencers in the profession to read about what’s going on in their world.

Updated daily, RecruitingTrends.com features articles that discuss current and future trends, highlight leading-edge best practices, identify tactical recruiting expertise, and offer industry insight.