Our competitors are really excited about Hireplug's product.

We caught Jobvite's Chief Product Officer - Jamie Glenn spying my LinkedIn profile.

A screenshot will help!

Social Networks have changed many thing and the recruiting is one of them.

People use Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to connect and share news, jobs and more.

It really feels great to connect with other people - that is just human.

If we look at the data and the past. There are some realities.

• Job boards are still a #1 source of new hires.
• Most people used LinkedIn search to source candidates - Not Really Social.
• Twitter has been used to broadcast jobs and target candidates.
• Phone is almost always more social than any communication on social networks.
• Facebook Ads has not been proven to be great in recruiting.

If we look at social networks from a technical perspective it is more or less a database of relationships that we build. Every phone call can be turned into the audience by connecting with the candidate on social networks. These growing audience than can be presented with relevant news, articles and jobs. Engagement always matters. This is more like cultivating a farm. Not a lot of it can be outsourced and recruiters have new role of 'relationship managers' as they engage top talent.

The irony about social recruiting is that - Most requirements that you are working will NOT match the audience that you build on Linked In, Twitter and Facebook. If you try to share the jobs or approach the limited candidates - the matching probability will be very very low.

I think the problem lies deep within the functioning of recruiting industry. Recruiters has been competitive even within an organization. They don't help each other to fill the jobs and for a reason - there is no incentive to help other recruiters to fill postions. Imagine a huge collective audience, everyone in the organization is building. Now imagine if we can post jobs relevant to this audience by selective sharing activity by everyone. This could help leverage that collective social audience that we have been building on Social Networks.

We at Hireplug, have build a system to help recruiters work collaboratively. Hireplug let's recruiter do these things -

• Follow other recruiters - job posted by them will automatically appear in the updates.
• Share jobs by fellow recruiters and they will see that you helped in their updates.
• If someone shares your job - There is a quick link to 'Thank' the recruiter with a single click. The recruiter gets this information in his feed.
• All recruiters can browse organization jobs at a common repository and share with social network based on relevance.
• Recruiters can send auto-generated 'job opportunity' emails to their connections on 40+ social networks - even for jobs posted by other recruiters.

Screenshots of the interface would certainly help.

Will it solve the problem of recruiting collaboratively in recruiting industry?

Will recruiters be happy to leverage their social audience to help other recruiters - If those efforts are tracked and rewarded?

Your feedback will be highly appreciated.

Hireplug is released and we've hundreds of recruiters from 10+ countries signed-up and using Hireplug.

Here is a glimpse of possibilities with Hireplug.

Add Facebook App to your Fan Page

Add Facebook App on your Facebook profile

Capture Talent right from your Facebook Profile and Fan Page

Here is a blog post explaining this -  Turn your Facebook Fan Page into a Talent Magnet!

Spread the Facebook App on your colleagues' Facebook Profiles.

Spread jobs on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter with single-click

Refer friends from 40+ Social Networks.

There is just much more than that :-)

Feel free to get started here - http://www.hireplug.com

As you might already know:

• Job Portals tend to generate a pile of irrelevant resumes
• Recruiters approaching people on social networks doesn't bring great results.
• Average age of a LinkedIn user is 41 years.
  
• Staffing firms get the top talent but the costs are very high.

At Hireplug, we have come up with a solution to leverage facebook and other social networks of all the employees in order to effectively reach top talent in employees' social circles. It is really simple.

• You can register at hireplug.com
    and create a company profile with complete control of your branding and logo
• Add private 'Careers' App to your company's Facebook fan page and employees Facebook profiles.
• Their friends can apply or your employee can selectively share jobs on their social networks.
• You get access to top talent from 40+ social networks which is not available otherwise.
• We also track employee referrals and candidate source automatically.
• Automated searchable 'Talent Pool' building from Facebook visitors.

Checkout this 2-minute video for a quick overview of this recruiting platform.

We are giving away FREE 2 month trials to first 10 companies on a first come first serve basis.

Reach me(rajan(at)hireplug(dot)com) if you would be interested in taping into employee social networks for top talent.

I was looking at my LinkedIn recent visitors and found this really interesting.

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Hireplug is having a global reach of 60 countries and customers(although Free) in 10 countries already using our product.

LinkedIn has been constantly watching hireplug. I already posted about this A Product Manager at Linked in is spying on Hireplug. in a blog post.

Now, we have a news. Mr. James Raybould from LinkedIn signs up at Hireplug.com. Here is his Linked In profile.

Here is a screenshot of his LinkedIn public profile.

Welcome onboard James.

It has turned out that most excutives have been concerned with measuring ROI from Social Media.

While it is hard to measure the exact ROI but ignoring it will not get us great results.

At Hireplug, We have been working 'Social Recruiting' space from a results standpoint and not just as a fun and social activity.

JobVite is 15.5 million USD funded silicon valley company with 5+ years in business.

Let's analyze them from 'Social Recruiting' standpoint.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jobvite.com

JobVite's web traffic comes from following 'social' sources!

This sums up to - 18.61 %.

We have not considered livingsocial.com because it is a 'business promotion' platform rather than an actual social portal.

Most of their traffic comes from Google, Indeed and other non-social sources.

Although, They have been positioning themselves as top 'social recruiting' product -they turned out to be only 18.61% social.

Now, you must be interested in analyzing Hireplug's 'Social' Traffic sources.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hireplug.com

Here is the screenshot.

Hireplug turns out to be 48.99% Social.

Checkout http://www/hireplug.com/ and leverage it's social reach for FREE.

Linked In has changed the way we do business around the globe. Now, we make more informed decisions and connect with professionals around the globe in an online but more personable environement without even needing to meet in person. All the information about a person is on our finger tips and we are able to drive better busienss decisions and recruit top talent as well. Lets do a deeper analysis and find out the Pros and Cons of Linked In from Recruitment Standpoint!
LinkedIn is a boon to recruiters and open database of candidates. Here are pros and cons of LinkedIn from recruitment perspective.

Pros

• World Standard for Professional Networking - most top people available there!
• 65+ million profiles and great search sitting on top of it.
• Good quality candidates available
• Good for managerial and above positions.
• Easy to approach using message/InMail

Don't take me wrong. I love LinkedIn and I am a paid member for quite a few months. Let's explore the limitations of Linked In and the facts that will help us recruit better.

Cons

• Average age of a LinkedIn user is 41 years. If you are looking for younger talent, LinkedIn might not be the best place to look.
• Very small footprint e.g. Facebook has 500+ million users - Linked In has 1/10th of Facebook.
• Semi Active, Semi passive candidates with high salary requirements.
• Red sea strategy - Competing with All Staffing Firms out there approaching the same candidates.
• Recruiters spamming unknown candidates - Doesn’t bring great results and sometimes results into frustration.
• Huge time-spend while building fake and unrealistic relationships in the hope of recruitment - Drives high recruitment costs.

How hireplug intends to change this?

• Spread your company-branded 'careers portal' on all employees Facebook and reach out to younger and brighter talent in their social networks.
• Skill-based targeting of jobs on their Facebook App. e.g. A Tech employee sees Tech jobs on top and a marketing employee will see marketing jobs highlighted on top. So that they can share them with their connections on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and 40+ Social Networks around the globe.
• Add 'careers' on your Facebook Fan page and start attracting Top Gen-Y talent who is already passionate about you and your brand!
• Employee Referral Tracking across 40+ Social Networks and Candidate 'source' tracking.

Feel free to checkout Hireplug and start your free trial - http://www.hireplug.com

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You must be aware about the benifits of maintaining a 'Talent Pool' of interested and relevant candidates.

Hireplug exactly lets you do that from your visitors of Fancebook Page!

Hireplug's 'We Are Hiring' App. sitting on employees' Facebook profiles and also on Employer Fan Pages prompts visitors for joining Employer's Talent Network. Here is a screenshot!

Once the visitor clicks on 'Join' link. Most information is grabbed from user Facebook Profile and App asks for more information on Skills as show below.

Now the candidate becomes part of the Talent Network(read 'Talent Pool') and is searchable by recruiters using Hireplug.com as shown below!

Sounds cool?

Feel free to sign-up with Hireplug, Add the App on your Facebook Fan Page and start building your 'Talent Pool' right now!!

Hireplug is now cooler than ever!

We've made it look more cooler and simpler. In the process we removed a lot of colors and made it soothing for human eyes!

Me and Felix have been trying to make it simpler and cooler for our users. A screenshot may help!

Feel free to checkout - http://www.hireplug.com

Your feedback will be highly appreciated!