How to Use Internal Social Media for Better Hiring

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In between my writing gigs, I spent a few years doing internal communications for companies in legal and educational fields. What I’ve learned there was the importance of communicating company’s hiring situation to your employees – nobody wants to find out about a great opening their niece/neighbor/cousin would’ve been perfect for the day a new staff member joins the team.

Even if you hire an external candidate, it’s a good people policy to accept job candidate recommendations from company employees, giving them the opportunity to have a say in who joins the team.

At the legal firm I worked at, I was responsible for, among other things, posting memos, notes, articles and such onto the bulletin board. Yes, a physical cork board hanging near the entrance to the office. That’s such an old school communication tool, one might think, but the board turned out to be one of the most effective internal communication tools our HR department tried.

One of the weekly updates that I was responsible for was a list of current company openings. The list helped both with hiring – as employees talked about the openings to their friends and referred a few people to HR as a result – and jordan phone number resource with the staff having an idea, which departments were scarce on the human resource. That prompted many to go out of their way to make respective adjustments in the workload and department cooperation to help with the temporary lack of people.

Think of your company’s internal social media as a bulletin board you have online. Let’s look into the specifics of such networks, available tools, as well as the ways they can assist you with hiring.

Making internal social media hiring work

To have a working system of hiring through internal recommendations, you need to build the community within your company, gain trust and reliably post up-to-date information on the openings. But most importantly, your online groups for employees need to actually be visited by the said employees.