Recruiting with Social Media Training Course
Supercharge your recruitment using social media channels
Course Details & Enrolment
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This course can be delivered to teams at your business or organisation. | Enquire Now |
Course length: 1 day (9.30am - 5.00pm) includes digital copies of materials and certification |

Benefits
Following this training course, you will undertstand:
- The concept of social recruiting and its trends
- How a variety of different companies are putting it online recruitment into practice
- How to put social media in context with your existing recruitment and employer brand activity
- The key elements of building a social recruiting strategy
- An understanding of the key sites and tools to aid social recruitment
- Techniques to make your social recruitment strategy a success
All attendees receive an attendance certificate, a digital copy of course material and four weeks post course support online.
Course Overview
The massive adoption of social media is having a fundamental effect on recruitment. People are looking for jobs in a different way and many smart businesses are embracing new digital recruitment tools and techniques to reduce costs and increase the quality of their recruiting techniques.
Emarketeers' social recruitment training course will give you an understanding of what shifts are happening in the digital recruitment space, which companies are leading the way, what the key tools are and how you can create and execute your own successful social recruiting strategy.
The day will be led by Kristie Perrotte, a highly experienced recruiting marketing specialist and regular conference speaker.
Course Programme
The Reality of "Social Recruiting"
- How is recruiting with social media moving into the mainstream
- How do you separate the hype from the reality?
- Audience breakdown and industry relevancy
- How is social media changing Sourcing, Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding
Hand's On With The Key Social Channels
- Identifying which channel is right for you -- LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram – and making these platforms work for you
- How to attract talent
- How to develop and promote your employer brand
- How to drive referral recruitment
- The importance of an online-first approach, including mobile
- Getting a practical understanding of other platforms including Glassdoor, Google Reviews and Google for Jobs
- Using blogging platforms for recruitment and the importance of search engine marketing and optimisation (SEM & SEO)
Techniques to Recruit with Social Media
- Automated feeds: are they appropriate and what do they achieve?
- Content marketing and recruitment
- Conversational marketing techniques
- Understanding metrics and measurement in social recruitment
Social Media Platforms
- Getting a practical understanding of the most important social media sites
- How to utilise the power of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram in recruitment
- Using blogging platforms for recruitment
Social Recruitment Case Studies
- Learn from companies already effectively using social media for recruitment
- Case studies illustrating a number of different techniques across different social platforms
- Examples from global corporations, large companies, SMEs and the public sector
Tools to Save Time and Maximise Resources
- How to manage social recruiting activity efficiently and effectively
- Using automation and content curation Tools
- Social Media and website analytics dashboards
- Specialist social recruiting tools
Creating a Social Recruitment Strategy
- Practical help to create a social media recruitment strategy that is relevant for your organisation
- Contextualising social media within your existing recruitment strategies and digital recruitment activity
- Understand the key elements needed to develop an effective social recruiting strategy
- Working with marketing to share company social channels, whilst staying on brand
- Leveraging your existing employee base to help share your message
- Develop a business case to “sell” your social media recruitment strategy within your organisation
Audience
Anyone with an interest in understanding how social media is working for recruitment. The content will be particularly relevant for HR professionals, corporate recruiters, recruitment agencies and anyone working in the career coaching sector.
Trainer

This course is led by recruitment marketing specialist Kristie Perrotte, who built her career in recruitment marketing, first as International Director of Communications for a global S&P 500 recruitment consultancy, and now as a Virtual CMO and founder of Thrive Marketing Communications.
Today Kristie works across the talent management spectrum, including recruitment consultancies, in-house recruitment and HR teams, and employee engagement and development departments. She is equally engaged with recruitment AI, automation and technology providers, disrupting the industry, and is an expert on employment trends in a digital age.
Kristie regularly shares her insights at conferences and workshops, imparting her enthusiastic Canadian accent to willing audiences across the UK and Europe.
See more details on Kristie Perrotte »
What people say

I wasn't sure what to expect going into this course, but was so impressed with the content and delivery! Everything we covered was relevant and will help us push our Social Media Recruitment strategy to the next level!
Skechers USA

Very informative course, with some great ideas for implementing a solid strategy once back in the office.
Explore Learning

A great course with a fantastic trainer - I didn't know what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised. The course was structured but personalised to each individual companies needs. Would highly recommend!
Home Instead Senior Care

Great course - would recommend it to others!
Our HR Dept

I can highly recommend Emarketeers having been on several courses. Their trainers are experts in their field, very engaging and the courses well structured. At no point was I bored - the courses are always informative and very interesting The venues are also fantastic!!
Barchester Healthcare

Very well presented and informative course which covered all aspects of social media - even the most up-to-date ones. Highly recommended!
Cambs Police

I found the course really helpful, and appreciated that I came away with a realistic list of action points that I can actually implement, despite having limited resources and time.
Progressio

Matt ran an inspirational training day on social media tailored to recruitment. For anyone looking to broaden their knowledge on this field, it is definitely a course worth taking. It brought home the importance of having social media within your strategy and the best ways to use it.
Athona

The trainer was incredibly knowledgeable on the subject of Social Media and recruitment, and provided an engaging and highly informative session.
Uxbridge College

This was an excellent insight into recruiting with Social Media. Very professionally delivered and tailored to suit the group by a very experienced and knowledgeable tutor. Wonderful venue - look forward to visiting again.
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