
Social recruiting could have been a new concept a few years ago, but not anymore. With new and innovative recruitment techniques gradually replacing the conventional methods of sourcing and screening candidates, social recruiting too has a significant role to play. If you are a recruiter looking to hire candidates for your 2020 recruitment and are considering social recruiting as an option, this blog can give you an in-depth insight into the challenges involved with this technique. 
What is Social Recruiting?
Social recruiting is the use of social media platforms to hire candidates into a firm. Social media pages can be used as talent databases or for advertising your job requirements. This technique involves using blogs, social media profiles such as LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. to find information about potential candidates, and use the same to target such candidates that match your job profile.
Benefits of Social Recruiting
Just like other time-tested methods, social media is fast becoming an essential tool for HR professionals to meet their recruitment numbers. Some of the many benefits are:
Challenges with Social Recruiting
On the surface, social recruiting might seem an easy route to connect with potential candidates, allowing you to hire top talent and meet your recruitment numbers. But like other contemporary recruitment techniques adopted by recruiters, social recruiting too has its own set of challenges. These include:
Social recruiting can be an option for you, but is not a completely reliable mode of candidate recruitment for a new recruiter. It requires immense planning and caution to build your brand on this platform and also recruit individuals from them. If you want to hire top talent efficiently for your 2020 campus recruitments, you can approach Pod.ai  . We have the  expertise and resources to help you hire the best talent and also meet your recruitment numbers. Visit us at https://pod.ai/employers to learn more about our services.
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