This is just a small post this one, but one I thought would be timely considering that the focus for the onrec conference is social media and that there is a new social media in recruitment conference soon to be held.
I think it is interesting that for each of these conferences there will be no external industry guides to provide some factual ideology and thoughts. I would have thought that a sensible debate on the legal raimifactions needs to be addressed - by experts, not salesman. There has already been a case of Bank refusing to allow HR to use social media for recruitment due to the legal implications. The obvious problems of perceived discrimination and privacy violation are likely to rear their ugly heads.
Also was interested to read in the FT yesterday that 60% of Twitter users fail to tweet again in the following month. If that's the case, where does that leave the next big thing?
Lots of "experts" seem to be coming out of the wood work for these conferences. Not sure how we have all become experts by being merely early adopters, identifiers and users. I can't talk, I have just finished a detailled social media strategy for a large college. But there are many issues around social media and it is easy to represent yourself online when YOU are the brand not a transient employee.
Would be interested to know people's thoughts in this one. As always comments are warmly welcomed.
