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Forrester Social Recruiting Webcast
- 2. Social Recruiting Is a
Competitive Advantage
Zach Thomas
Senior Analyst
Forrester Research
April 21, 2009
- 4. Agenda
• Social Technographics® relates to recruiting
• The new candidate pool
• Turbo charge recruiting with social computing
• What about the economy?
• Align your company with this strategy
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- 5. Agenda
• Social Technographics® relates to recruiting
• The new candidate pool
• Turbo charge recruiting with social computing
• What about the economy?
• Align your company with this strategy
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- 6. Social Technographics®
Source: Forrester’s NACTAS Devices & Access Online Survey, Q4 2006
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- 7. High earners use social computing
technologies more
Source: Forrester’s North American Technographics Media And Marketing Online Survey, Q3 2007
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- 8. Increased education equates to
increased social computing
Source: Forrester’s North American Technographics Media And Marketing Online Survey, Q3 2007
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- 9. New workers embrace social computing
Source: Forrester’s North American Technographics Media And Marketing Online Survey, Q3 2007
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- 10. Career-motivated people use social
computing more
Source: Forrester’s North American Technographics Media And Marketing Online Survey, Q3 2007
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- 11. But what are they doing?
Source: Forrester's North American Technographics® Benchmark Survey, 2008
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- 12. Where do generations spend their time
Source: Forrester's North American Technographics® Benchmark Survey, 2008
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- 13. What is your workforce?
Source: Groundswell (http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell/profile_tool.html)
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- 14. Agenda
• Social Technographics® relates to recruiting
• The new candidate pool
• Turbo charge recruiting with social computing
• What about the economy?
• Align your company with this strategy
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- 15. The problem is…
» 30 million Millennials
» 46 million
» 78 million
are here and 46 million
Gen Xers cannot
Baby Boomers
more are coming
replace retirees
will be retiring
- 32M + 76M = 44M
- 78M + 46M = - 32M
- 78M
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- 16. Job seekers look for
• Community and openness • Clear growth opportunities
• Challenging work
• Life-work balance
• Good compensation
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- 17. Agenda
• Social Technographics® relates to recruiting
• The new candidate pool
• Turbo charge recruiting with social computing
• What about the economy?
• Align your company with this strategy
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- 18. Keep your enterprise Web 1.0 apps…for
now
• Web 1.0 apps save you money by improving:
– Compliance
– Efficiency
– Consistency
– Branding
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- 19. Social networks augment business
processes
• Alumni programs: a fertile ground for boomerang hires
• Internship programs: maintaining relationships is crucial
• Mentoring programs: accelerate the trajectory of burgeoning
leaders
• Collaboration: enable just-in-time learning
• Onboarding: reducing the time to productivity socializes new
hires
• Recruiting: broaden the reach of your referral network
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- 20. Turbo charge with social networks
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- 21. Turbo charge with blogs
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- 30. Agenda
• Social Technographics® relates to recruiting
• The new candidate pool
• Turbo charge recruiting with social computing
• What about the economy?
• Align your company with this strategy
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- 31. During the economic downturn, HR pros
are in the limelight
In today’s economy, HR professionals are:
• Making tough workforce decisions
• Facilitating important communication
• Planning for the future
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- 32. Learning in a recession
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- 33. Recruiting in a recession
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- 34. Agenda
• Social Technographics® relates to recruiting
• The new candidate pool
• Turbo charge recruiting with social computing
• What about the economy?
• Align your company with this strategy
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- 35. Steps to get your company on board
• Understand your audience
• Utilize existing technologies
• Document results
• Engage your employees
• Create a clear value proposition
• Implement a new social recruiting environment
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- 36. Thank you
Zach Thomas
+1 617.613.6219
zthomas@forrester.com
www.forrester.com
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