On Monday 16th November the second Social Recruiting Summit was held by ERE in New York City, much of the content is available online for you to reference. We have pulled together some of the presentations here so you can view them in one place, or view them on the main site.
Fred Wilson, VC and principle from Union Square Ventures (who have an impressive list of investments), is giving the keynote talk at the Social Recruiting Summit in NYC next week. He provides us with some of his thought and themes he will be talking about, go check out his post. But if you want the summary:
He rarely uses recruiters, he prefers to source top talent directly
He uses LinkedIn to develop a list of references
Just searching for talent is not enough, you have to promote your opportunities
There is a niche community for everything, find the one where your prospective candidate might hang out
His last point I suspect sums his whole presentation:
Social media is about showing up, hanging out, and earning trust.
