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I had an interesting call from a Recruiter today. He was complaining about the fact that no one wants to follow his Recruitment Agency on Twitter. I spent some time talking about the ways you can use Twitter in the Recruitment process. But he didn't care.
We talked about creating a social recruiting strategy to interact with the users. He didn't care.
This is not an unusual situation I find myself in. Nearly all Recruiters I talk with about using some type of social media for recruitment just want to post job adverts and wait for candidates to apply (post and pray).
Well, there is already a service you use for that. It's called a job board.
Only posting job adverts to Twitter is just not good enough. There is no conversation or engagement between you and your users.
These Twitter feeds tend to create a lot of noise and frankly, waste the users time scrolling through all the latest jobs that are not relevant to them.
It's not that people don't want to follow you. You just have nothing interesting to add to the conversation.
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I think the issue is when people try and post 'filler' material on twitter then posts a few jobs, more filler content then another 5 jobs - its confusing to the reader. I think a recruiter can use it as a pseudo jobboard - therefore only the people who want to know about your jobs will use it and not expect anything else.
If you want 'followers' then of course the recruiter should not post any jobs and instead stick to posting interesting info on the job market perhaps.
Furthermore in the background image they could upload a picture each week with the latest jobs listed so that the follows can see the jobs on your profile while reading your content.
Steve
http://www.citirecruitment.com
Who looks at a users profile? (I wanted to back this up with some statistics but I am at a loss to find any :P )
We have a general Twitter account, @Prospects, through which we engage in conversations and provide useful info. We have two seperate accounts, @Prospectscourse and @Prospectsjobs, through which we run our RSS course and job feeds.
As an agency you may wish to create seperate accounts for each sector, and a general account to provide CV and general employment info.