The Social Recruiting Conference rolls into town on 30 June.
I’m looking forward to my visit, to get to see a few familiar faces, and to meet and learn from some new ones too. What is social recruitment all about? I guess we all have our own ideas; I’d be interested to hear yours. I’ve had a few conversations with conference chair Alan Whitford about this and the thoughts and ideas we have bounced around include:
• Engagement
• Technology
• Behaviour
• Opportunity
• Innovate…(or die?)
We thought it might be useful to try and sum up these feelings and ideas, and I suggested that rather than write another blog post on the subject, we should experiment a little. So here’s a song for you. A song about social recruitment. I hope it prompts a few questions for the event next week – looking forward to seeing you there.
Lyrics:
Career advice is plentiful
You’re lost in the maze
So many ways to do this stuff
A head banging haze
I’ve done all my research
My planning is meticulous
If I think about any more
Slide from sublime to ridiculous
Yet there is something wrong
I need experts to see what they meant
I don’t understand
Don’t get social recruitment
Is it about engagement
And the importance of communication
But these two terms so over used
Like verbal constipation
They say all this social
Do it now or fall behind
Better get your message sorted
Or your business will be blind
No one sits still no more your business must be Mobile
Your brand has to be authentic
Else how you gonna make a pile
Is your strategy about technology, or maybe it’s cost saving
If you get the behaviour right, folk’s careers you can be saving
I don’t have to tell you, it’s Innovate or die,
I want to be there laughing with you
Not sitting back trying not to cry
Be Locally global take this thing around the world
Be Globally local your banner is unfurled
Be locally Global you wanna make that call
Be globally local grow the market grow it all
Where can you go
Be in the know
Be energetic
I don’t want ponderous
Head to London town
On 30th June
To the social recruiting conference
I’m in the market for a new way to work
