Many social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin etc. help you a lot in your recruitment process by making your work so simple, easy and by reducing your precious time.

But what should you do?

The answer: it is up to you. If you decide to forbid social media sites as part of your recruitment process, then that message has to be made clear both to line recruiters and managers. A policy review may be required.

 If you are including these kinds of sites for your processes, then you need to take many precautions to get benefits:

• You have to ensure that your recruiting officers are trained in equal opportunities

• Keep a paper trail and archive print-outs that you have used when assessing a candidate

• You have review your policies and make it clear that only HR is allowed to consult online profiles

LinkedIn, the social media site, has the following benefits:

• Easier to locate talent

• Can do better reference checking

• Easier to leverage your network to locate and reach talent

• More honest data b/c profiles are essentially peer reviewed

• Relationship context helps build a trusted communication environment

Social Media has lot of benefits for Employers because :

• It is a best way to advertise your job vacancies here in free of cost

• Provide the advertisement to number of people where they will send the job vacancies to their number of friends

• Receive a lot of resume of talented candidates

• Identify and approach suitable candidates

• Helps in finding the right candidates in the shortest time to meet your specific

requirements for the employer’s vacancy

• Check the suitability of candidates

• Brief the candidate about the responsibilities, salary and benefits of the job in your firm

It has a lot of benefits for a candidate also as

• Can find a right job according to his/her skills, experience, knowledge, expected salary

• Can post his/ her CV

• Can ask his/ her queries in ‘Comment box’ before sending CV. Therefore, he/ she can hide his/her personal information

• Can also discuss about the job position, company etc. here

• Can appraise his/ her skills, knowledge and experience relative to job requirements

• Can upgrade his/ her skills according to current market demands

• Can send this link to his/ her friends those who are searching a perfect job

So, you can use social media sites like (twitter, LinkedIn etc.) for your recruitment process and take advantages of them.