{"id":11060,"date":"2018-10-16T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dna325.com\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2025-07-25T08:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T08:18:56","slug":"how-to-use-facebook-to-recruit-top-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dna325.com\/blog\/how-to-use-facebook-to-recruit-top-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Use Facebook To Recruit Top Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being the largest social network in the world with over 1 billion users (!!!), Facebook can be a perfect place for finding and reaching out to true talents, interesting to employers from the professional perspective. Indeed, on FB, as opposed to LinkedIn, for example, people aren\u2019t limited with the focus on sharing professional achievements. They post photos from their everyday life, share their interests, present their friends, family, and partners. <\/span><\/p>\n

Quite a logical conclusion is in place: Facebook makes recruiters\u2019 job significantly painless, allowing to indicate what really motivates a certain person, define their level of knowledge in the niche and some personal qualities principally important for holding a particular vacant position. In this feature, you will find out how to find candidates for the required position on Facebook and learn some nuances of formulating work offers in personal messages. <\/span><\/p>\n

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5 tips to become the best recruiter<\/span><\/h3>\n

So, these are the 5 best ever recommendations on <\/span>social media recruiting<\/span> in our opinion, which will help you find truly talented candidates among millions of profiles on Facebook. <\/span><\/p>\n

Use \u2018smart\u2019 searching tools <\/span><\/h5>\n

Searching for candidates among more than a billion of Facebook users is a difficult task from the get-go. In order to facilitate the procedure, you can employ the following tools.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Graph search. <\/b>Graph search is a \u2018smart\u2019 Facebook search for English-speaking users that can effortlessly find you people fitting your most narrowly-focused requests. Thus, you can enter something like: <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    People who graduated Harvard University and work at Microsoft<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

    and – voila, you get a worked out list of fitting candidates. You can additionally use <\/span>graph.tips<\/span><\/a> to become more confident in working with this tool. <\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Xray search with Boolean technique.<\/b> X-Ray search is a no less popular, but more complex way to look for candidates\u2019 profiles, which is being implemented with the help of Boolean operators. For instance, if you enter \u2018.NET developer New York\u2019, you will probably get a bunch of useless results. There are special operators for more precise search by custom parameters in Google:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n