Advantages Of Contemporary Recruitment Techniques - Social Media Recruiting And Referral Software [Part 2] (savio vadakkan)

In today's modern world, it is very important to be constantly updated and have the option of interacting with a large number of people instantaneously. Online recruitment systems are what ensure that this can happen. Referral software makes it possible for people to recruit employees based purely on their skill and talent without having to go through the complicated process that recruitment has become.

There are a lot of benefits that the online recruitment system has to offer:

1. Inspires Employees

Posting jobs to your organization's social media platforms is also an indirect way of empowering your employees to spread the word using referral software. Employees and followers can simply choose to share a link to another person's profile. Using innovative tools such as ZALP allows you to directly empower employees to post jobs on their own social networking sites. The conversion rates in case of jobs being shared by employees themselves is 38% higher than those shared by recruiters.

2. Reduces the Cost to Hire

The recruiting-related transactional costs through online recruitment systems are typically lower in comparison to other sources. Less money can be allocated to traditional job advertisements and put towards social recruiting strategies and implementing related tactics. Cost effective recruitment solutions such as ZALP make this process all the simpler.

3. It's Engaging

Social media is about connecting and having engaging conversations through sharing great content. Putting together a strong online recruitment system such as ZALP will help to define what type of content you think will be valuable to share with the candidates with whom you would like to engage. Combining this with the potential of employee referrals will transform your recruitment process like never before.

4. Wide Reach

With more than 800 million active users on Facebook alone, 50% of which log on to Facebook in any given day, many recruiters and hiring managers are leveraging social media's wide reach and large audience for influencing potential candidates. An online recruitment system using social media has a lot of opportunities in today's scenario of cost effectiveness. An employee referral software such as ZALP has a strong integration with all social media sites including Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.

Making the referral process as easy as possible for employees is the key to increase participation. The success of an online recruitment system rests entirely on the degree of participation of employees and user friendly tools such as ZALP make this possible.

Savio Vadakkan, Marketing Representative at Zalp which is a social employee referral software with which organizations can now automate and streamline every aspect of their employee referral program while at the time same integrate it with the potent potential of social recruitment using its advanced social media capabilities.