Online Social Medias and Human Capital Recruiting
Katheryn Meagher
As an established HR consultant with over 25 years of experience I have dedicated my career to putting “Human” back into Human Resources, be it through my work in employment law, recruitment, training or development. A big part of bringing the human touch to my work is to approach each tasks with an open mind and a willingness to explore new ideas; to listen to the clients, the employees and my colleague; and then apply that learning to my daily practices. But as challenging as that may be I was looking for more and I soon found myself back in school going for a PhD in Organizational Management HR at the Capella University in Minneapolis, MN – forcing me to step out of the daily HR ‘craziness’ and find myself having to explain what is going on in our recruiting world – as I see it. My current paper on ‘Online Social Medias and Human Capital Recruiting’ made me realize that maybe it would be good for all of us to step back for a minute and look at our current recruiting tools – specifically online networking.
The objective of this paper is to explore what is online social networking along with the employers recruiting from them. There are four sites of social networking that describe how they inform the employer in using their sites to recruit talent. The new trend to recruit through online social networks is demonstrated with particular studies to show how successful it had been for firms. The recruitment on these social networking sites is in the infancy stages and no known case studies have come to light, but companies may have to reword their policies and procedures to accommodate particular behaviors from the employees. It is the trend for now and only time will give the answer of what positive and negative outcomes will arise from this type of recruitment.
I hope you find the paper of value.
Posted by Katheryn Meagher
on June 7, 2010. Filed under Recruiting, Thought Leadership.
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Hi Katheryn, great topic and I love the concept of putting “human” back into Human Resources(-: Unfortunately I am having issues downloading your paper and since you are three degrees away on LI was not able to ask you there, so I thought I would ask you here if you could please email me a copy of your paper when you get a chance….thanks.
Eric