Connecting to top candidates is the key to recruitment success. But what if your ideal candidate can’t find their way to your career site? What are some of the ways you can reach out and engage the talented professionals you need to keep your organization strong and growing? Let’s cover the basics:
You have to use a multimedia approach to reach great candidates.
Gone are the days when you could advertise in one media and find all the candidates you were looking for. Today the media world is extremely fragmented and only getting more so. Targeted media falls into two main buckets…it is either offline media (like newspapers, trade journals, direct mail, radio, billboards, transit advertising, etc.) or online media (such as job boards, banner ads, e-blasts, social networking sites, virtual worlds, you name it). The correct mix is determined by your budget, the target market, the number of people you need to fill and the geographic locations of the jobs.