UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE La Verne‚ California USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO RECRUIT A DIVERSE WORKFORCE A Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for MGMT 525 Management of Diversity Mark E. Attew College of Business and Public Management Department of Business Management and Leadership August 13‚ 2010 Using Social Media to Recruit a Diverse Workforce As organizations continue to search for ways to attain and sustain a competitive advantage in the marketplace
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you can decide on the career path that’s right for you‚ the sooner you can begin to build your network. Social Media Social media sites like LinkedIn are very effective network building tools. These platforms provide opportunities to build relationships with others. You can read up on the best way to make LinkedIn work for you. Participating in LinkedIn groups related to your field can be a great way to get conversations started. Find the Executives If you’re a college student‚ building a network
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As society rapidly continues to advance technologically‚ new forms of communication have been put into place‚ both facilitating and complicating our daily lives. Whether it be a new word in the dictionary‚ or the rise of social media networks‚ each pose a threat to society if left unresolved as it conflicts with old systems put into place. In regards to the workplace‚ social media has completely shifted our perspectives on why and who we decide to hire or terminate. Subsequently blurring the boundary
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[pic] LinkedIn is the largest professional business networking site covering over 200 countries. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003. It is a business portal that connects everyone in the business field. Source: http://www.linkedin.com/ Unlike facebook‚ twitter or myspace where you happen to bump into long lost friends or meet people haphazardly LinkedIn is specifically business oriented site where there are no such distractions. LinkedIn is not just great for making business
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Stafford‚ Jason Shattuck‚ Lindsay Brunst‚ Mary Wade‚ And Myron Morgan SOC/100 January 12‚ 2015 Bette Wade Online Social Network What is social network? What are the advantages and disadvantages of social network? For this paper‚ we have chosen LinkedIn as our network to access. We each made a profile and began experiencing what this particular network had to offer. Our mission is to describe the site ’s purpose‚ content and participant population‚ along with each one of us describing our experience
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knitted friends and family members and about 300 odd acquaintances. These acquaintances are comprised of my old classmates‚ co-workers and some friends through social networking groups. In the digital world these are friends connected through facebook‚ LinkedIn‚ orkut etc. Personally speaking it makes sense that in some cases my family and my close knitted friends are best suited to provide me with quality options and choices. For the most part I believe this is true under certain circumstances during personal
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M6D1 What process(es) are used to make decision at your organization? Is the process the same regardless of the type of decision? MISs can often give companies and other organizations the ability to achieve its operating objectives by “providing the right information to the right people in the right format and at the right time.” (Stair & Reynolds 2014‚ pg. 295). One of the processes that I used while working at Citibank was a monthly review of teller transaction differences report (A form
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my future career‚ and how doing so might just set me apart from the competition. First‚ I had never really heard of LinkedIn before doing this research‚ but now‚ I will most certainly create a profile on LinkedIn so that I may be able to network with others in my future career field‚ and also so that I could be a potential target for a recruiter out there who may be searching LinkedIn for a new employee. Additionally‚ I will most definitely be able to use the information I have learned through this
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Introduction: I choose this topic is because more and more job seekers will go on social media to search for job. Even employers are putting recruitments advertisement on social media. Even like some of the jobs looking for admin staff‚ telemarketing staff and even sales staff the employer will just post on facebook and ask job seekers to contact them or send resume through their email address. Social media is a rising and evolving force within recruitment and resourcing. Firms are using the tools
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business networking and job-hunting. On LinkedIn‚ the market leader‚ members have been updating their profiles in record numbers in recent weeks‚ apparently to position themselves in case they lose their jobs. The two most popular sites‚ LinkedIn and Xing‚ have been growing at breakneck speed and boast 29m and 6.5m members respectively. And‚ in contrast to mass-market social networks such as Facebook and MySpace‚ both firms have worked out how to make money. LinkedIn and Xing are similar in many ways
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