By Riges Younan

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Watch Riges Younan, CEO of 2Vouch, talk about SocialRecruiting.com. In this short 3 minute video Riges covers the idea behind the site, why people should contribute and what will happen with the results.

By Michael Specht, Consultant to 2Vouch on Social Media and Recruiting

Today there is a lot of good information freely available on the Internet. The trouble is not only how to find it but remembering where it is after you have found it.

Google helps solve the first part, but the second is not so easy.

Enter online bookmarking.

With online bookmarking, no matter where you are you can bookmark the site to come back to at a later date. While most browsers have the ability to bookmark pages, these sites have several advantages. First adding content no matter where you are or what computer you are using. Second they allow you to tag the links with key words so you can find them again. Finally they are social you can share links with friends.

These three advantages make tools like Delicious so powerful.

2Vouch has a Delicious account where we collect interesting links that relate to social recruiting, employee referrals and general career advice. You can explore our links and if you have an RSS reader you can subscribe to all our links, or subscribe just a specific tag such as SocialRecruiting. If you are a Delicious user you can add 2Vouch to your network and we share relevant links. You can see our links on the sidebar of the blog as well.

Delicious also allows you to see who else has bookmarked the same links and explore their bookmarks. Given you have both bookmarked the same item you probably have the same interests.

A final comment. Delicious also has private links, this allows you to privately share links between your friends within Delicious. As an employer or recruiter you could use this feature to tag potential candidates.

By Michael Specht, Consultant to 2Vouch on Social Media and Recruiting

Last week Riges Younan (2Vouch CEO) posted about the presentation he is preparing for ATC in Auckland on social recruiting and employee referral programs. He asked for help to prepare the presentation, interesting the post has not had any comments but did generate some discussions.

Following these discussions Riges has decided to take things a little further and has set up a site, http://socialrecruiting.com, specifically to help build the presentation. The idea being to use Web 2.0 and social media tools to help create the presentation.

The site is a mix of a blog where Riges can document his thoughts, and readers can comment. But it is also a wiki, this means anyone can register and edit content. There is some initial content on the site but it really needs the community to participate to develop the presentation. Don’t worry if you have never used a blog or a wiki before it is very easy. The good thing about a wiki is history is kept of every change so you cannot break it.

If you are a recruiter, hiring manager, candidate, anyone with an interest in recruiting and or social media go and make a contribution.

By Michael Specht, Consultant to 2Vouch on Social Media and Recruiting

By Riges Younan

I’m preparing my presentation on Social Recruiting for the Australiasian Talent Conference in Auckland and I would like to know what questions you have about social recruiting.

What do you think about this definition?

Social Recruiting harnesses the evolution of Web 2.0 technologies and social media to communicate, engage, inform and recruit our future talent

So, it would be great if you could help me craft my presentation.

By Riges Younan

I was contacted by David Campbell from lovedigital last week to get my views on how digital & social media is impacting the recruiting industry. Listen here

how do you think it’s impacting our industry?