Social Recruiting infographic from Jobvite, looking at Social Recruiting in the US from their own survey figures.

Social Recruiting in the US

We’re currently working with pan-European executive recruiter MRL Group on their Corporate Social Networking / Social Recruiting strategy.  As part of this programme, MRL are  recruiting Twinters -  paid social media internships - for their Hove (nr. Brighton) HQ.  Full details below / here , please do share with anyone you feel relevant.

Twinterns (Social Media Internships)

Leading Pan-European Recruitment Group. Immediate Start.

3-12 month contract duration. Hove.

MRL is a dynamic, market leading executive recruitment business, with offices in the UK and Germany. In order to support our investment in an extensive social media programme, we’re currently looking to recruit our first ever “Twinterns” – a 3-12 month internships working closely with our management teams and consultants to support the professional use of LinkedIn, Twitter and other online tools throughout our business.

This is really a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience of social media marketing and corporate networking in an environment where you really will have a vital role to play in the future of our business. You’ll spend your first week being trained by one of London’s leading social media practices, and then you’ll be straight onto the job of helping our consultants develop authentic, engaging conversations with our candidates and customers.

It goes without saying that we’re looking for someone who knows the difference between LinkedIn and Facebook, and is a demonstrably passionate participant in all types of social media. Just as importantly, you’ll be able to impart your enthusiasm to our team, helping them understand the business case for using these tools to build richer, deeper, relationships with our stakeholders.

This is a paid internship, and we are offering 11k per annum, and we’re offering a bonus for truly exceptional performance…

Please apply via kelly.robertson@mrl-group.com

To apply, please forward your CV to and we’ll begin the conversation from there.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

On 27th January 2011 Social Media Strategy practice Carve and consultancy firm BLT will be hosting a free breakfast seminar in London. Entitled Employer Reputation 2.0, Paul Harrison from Carve will be exploring the impact of influencers, reviews and the social graph on our traditional understanding of employer branding.

Please find an introduction to some of the topics that will be covered below. To attend please email JCF@blt.co.uk Hope you can make it.

Following today’s  Mashable article about Facebook Careers app BranchOut, it’s high time we devoted some time to looking at its implications for individuals and employers ( and agencies. )  First, the intro video:

Or how to keep your best people as the job market opens back up…

Award Winning Management Consultancy recruitment specialists BLT use video effectively to  not just  engage & attract candidates, but also to socialise and seed their client-focussed activities.

This film captures the recent client event hosted at BLT Towers on  Talent Retention. Read more on the BLTog

So, what do we all think of the new website Unvarnished? Described as a cross between LinkedIn and Yelp it allows anonymous reviews of your personal professional reputation.

For those who have decided to keep their ‘personal’ social networking profiles (Facebook, MySpace etc) separate from their professional profiles (LinkedIn, Xing etc) this will make it increasingly hard.

What’s interesting is that anyone can add a profile about themselves or anyone else (you can go in and ‘claim’ your profile if one already exists).

We’ve had quite a bit of debate on this blog in the past about how potential and current employers use Facebook but this throws up so many more issues.

I’d love to know your opinion.

Would you use this to create your own profile?

How would you respond if someone posted something negative about you?

Would you post comments about people you’ve worked with in the past?

Would you use it to research a potential employee?

I recently had the pleasure of presenting to the APSCo meeting in Manchester, where we presented ideas around online reputation for recruiters, or “Reputation 2.0″.

Prompted by the good people at Chinwag, we are now recruiting our very own twintern for the Summer. Graduates,  start sending your CVs to Adelaide@carveconsulting.com . We can’t wait to have the next social media expert on board for a few weeks!

Here is what our offer looks like:

You are passionate about all things social media, and are actively participating in a wide variety of web 2.0 activities such as blogging, social bookmarking, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. You would like to learn how to translate your passion into coherent and cutting-edge strategies for corporate organisations.

Carve Consulting is a digital engagement practice specialising in Corporate Social Networks, Online PR, Social Media Monitoring and Search Engine Marketing. With offices in the UK and Australia, the practice has developed corporate social networking strategies, social media marketing and social recruiting programmes for a range of private, public and not-for-profit organisations, including VisitBritain, Yell Adworks, The Audit Commission, Fairtrade, Wine Australia, Hays, ANZ Bank, and the NHS.  The practice offers strategy, advisory, research, training and managed services.

We can offer you a two month-internship in July and August where you’ll be thrown into the deep end to work on accounts with our consultants. Your day-to-day tasks will vary but will definitely include the following at some point:

-    Account management (including “whatever needs to be done to service the accounts”)
-    Client training
-    Client research
-    Report writing
-    Proactively participating in social media events

Our ideal intern looks a bit like this:
-    Passionate about social media with an appetite to learn
-    Up to date web 2.0 industry knowledge
-    Exceptional traditional writing and grammatical skills
-    Excellent verbal communication skills with ability to present  complex ideas clearly
-    Attention to detail and outstanding organisation skills
-    Ability to work to tight deadlines and be calm under pressure

We can’t offer you a full salary but will cover your travel and lunch expenses, as well as a discretionary bonus at the end of the internship. We are currently looking at expanding so there is potentially scope for developing this internship into a permanent paid position.

I look forward to hearing from you!

Carve was asked last year to contribute a chapter to the Social Media in Recruitment guide, following a well received presentation I made on Corporate Social Networking ( where ‘Social Media meets Business’ ) at the British Library.

Our chapter is focused on ‘Developing an Effective Corporate Social Networking Strategy‘ and draws on our experiences of doing just that with organisations inside and outside of the recruitment world.

The result is published by the REC Industry Research Unit and has some thought provoking contributions from the likes of Matt Alder and Bill Boorman

We’ve made the report accessible for free download via this link - socialmediainrecruitment

As always, we’re interested in your feedback / thoughts.

On Thursday and Friday this week I’ll be leading two tracks at TruLondon (http://thetruconferences.com/) that we hope will turn into something pretty special.

We’ve been operating LiveLABS for a while now as part of our active facilitation / corporate social networking programmes, where we use our tools and best practice frameworks to address real social media / social recruiting challenges. But we’re hoping that Tru London will take live problem solving to a new level with – we hope – a cast of 1000s.
Live LABS problem-solving was really borne out of the evident frustration that many people feel when approaching social media, and – specifically – when attending social media  / social recruiting events. There is a lot of theory and a number of well-known social media case studies that tend to be trotted out at these events but they often mean little if you’re not managing a brand that’s not already in possession of bags of money and /or residual awareness.  Live LABS is all about realising the value in social media for your organisation / brand.

When is Live LABS Tru London taking place?

• Thursday, 18th February:  13.00 – 14.00 GMT (Track 6)
• Friday, 19th February 2010: 13.30 – 14.30 ( Track 23)

How do I get involved?
Live LABS Tru London is going to be live in every sense of the word: participants to the Live LABS will be able to both SUBMIT  questions and challenges, or CONTRIBUTE with ideas and solutions.

• During the event, you can submit using “#TruLondon Q [and then your question]” ( you can also email your questions in advance to LiveLABS@CarveConsulting.com paul@carveconsulting.com)  In LiveLABS we attempt to solve problems in context, so please give as much detail as you can.

As the questions flood in (we hope) from you the twitterati and the individual tracks and participants at the event,  we will be showing the questions on the big TwitterJobSearch screen, and of course you can track them via your favorite Twitter tool ( we think http://twitterfall.com/trulondon is a good one, we’ll also be hosting a widget on the Carve Blog).

• And here’s where you come in. To contribute your ideas and solutions, just tweet using “#TruLondon A [and then your ideas ]”

We will be mashing the whole Twitter/Live participation thing up into something we hope that is great fun to participate in, but also:

•    …will provide some crowd-sourced insights to your social media / social recruiting problems and questions
•    ….and bring together – Live -  some of the planet’s leading recruitment thinkers
For more information, and tickets to TruLondon please visit http://thetruconferences.com/

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