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Week 3 Part A Recruiting Methods

Week 3 Part A Recruiting Methods

Q Discuss the different types of social media sites that HR professionals can use as recruitment tools. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using these sites? Make a case for which social media site you believe to be most effective to recruit quality candidates. Be sure to include an expert's ideas (with proper citations) to support your argument.

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Discuss the different types of social media sites that HR professionals can use as recruitment tools. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of using these sites? Make a case for which social media site you believe to be most effective to recruit quality candidates. Be sure to include an expert's ideas (with proper citations) to support your argument. There can be utilization of JobCentral, CareerBuilder, Monster, Yahoo HotJobs, the company website of a company, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc. by HR professionals as recruitment tools (Chapter 4 “Recruitment” in Human resource management). The costs of recruitment can be decreased to a great extent in case of utilization of the above-mentioned social media sites (Chapter 4 “Recruitment” in Human resource management). Communication can be done with candidates openly by HR professionals via social media sites. There can be inclusion of candidates from diversified backgrounds because the HR professionals can find out every detail about every candidate.