January 29, 2014
HR hunt on Twitter
There’s a new tool that will help you find employees that are active on Twitter.
It is in Beta phase but it works really well to pinpoint future employees in your area or elsewhere.
You can search by “skill”, “interests” and “network”.
As an employer, before you ditch the CV tool, verify the statistics of the Internet population that is using the Twitter platform and their field of expertise in the area you are planning to search.
For example, in Québec, only 12% of the internet population of 5 millions, has a Twitter profile and only 4%, logs in Twitter everyday.(1)
These statistics does not take into account Twitter data viewed or shared through the Internet like Twitter Feeds and embeded Tweets for example.
Active Twitter profiles that are attracting interests from the public in Québec are from celebrities, brands and organizations.(1)
So I would not use the “TacticsHR” hunt tool in Québec to find new employees because of the above mentionned Twitter usage statistics.
However, I would use it to search in areas where there is a significant usage of the Twitter platform by the internet community.
January 30, 2014 Update: Received an email today informing that the beta service will cease on February 14, 2014. You now have to register to their cloud service using the following link: https://sourcing.tacticscloud.com
Good luck in finding new talents to grow your business using:
That’s it for today, see you tomorrow.
Michelle Dunn ICT tools and Mobile Web Consultant
Reference: (1) Cefrio Stats in french only: http://bit.ly/cefrio1