1 An Easy Guide to Running Recruitment Ads on Your Socials
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Social network ... The one location you understand for sure that your ideal prospect invests some time every day. Knowing how to utilize social networks to source candidates has now end up being a core skill for recruiters. Running recruitment advertisements on these platforms can be an extremely reliable method of discovering good prospects for your open tasks. But how do you start? How do you even run projects on different social channels? We understand that without a background in marketing this can all be frustrating. No concerns though, we've got you covered!

What we'll cover in this post:

Building a candidate personality Running paid ads on Facebook and Instagram Paid promotion on Twitter Ads on Quora How to test various channels
Where to begin your social recruitment advertising campaigns?

Recruitment marketing is more than simply introducing ads and expecting the very best (while you might still just do that, we strongly encourage you not to). In order to maximize your paid efforts, you need to start by doing some research study. A good beginning point is to first produce your prospect personality. A candidate personality is the recruitment variation of a buyer persona (frequently utilized in marketing). It describes your perfect target prospect for the job. The objective is to make the personality as realistic and in-depth as possible. In order to make a great personality you will require to think of demographics, personality, social circles, and interests. The objective is to make the personality as close to a real individual as possible.

So how do you construct a candidate persona?

How to develop your prospect personality.

1. Collect information

Your prospect personas must not be based on suspicion alone. In order to get a precise candidate personality, you will to collect some data. The best method to gather data is to include present staff members and major stakeholders in the hiring process. By sending some surveys or doing brief interviews with them, you can get a better idea on your ideal candidate. After all, the employees are the ones that will have to deal with the new hire. Their input is vital. Major stakeholders can consist of individuals like the department manager or team lead. They frequently understand what they need in terms of skills and experience and can provide you some important input into the ideal candidate.

Another way of collecting valuable data is to assess your hires in the past for comparable jobs. This information can assist you to discover patterns among your previous successes which can be utilized to forecast future successful hires. Some information points that you need to try to find in the examination of your previous hires are:

- Demographic info