China was the fastest growing country in terms of membership registration on Linkedin by Oct. 2008. IBM China Alumni's registration number on Linkedin ranks number one against other key IT MNC players. From that, you can tell social networking is coming in vogue in China, which leads us to think over a new model for talent sourcing, candidate relationship management and branding promotion. If you believe this trend, you might start thinking about the topic: Social network should be explored and utilized as one key recruitment channel for sourcing qualified talents to meet your company's hyper growth demand.
Build a Successful Employee Referral Program
Employee referral is an internal recruitment method employed by organisations to identify potential candidates from their existing employees social networks. An employee referral scheme encourages a company's existing employees to select and recruit the suitable candidates from their social networks. As a reward, the employer typically pays the referring employee a referral bonus. Recruiting candidates using employee referral is widely acknowledged as being the most cost effective and efficient recruitment method to recruit candidates and as such, employers of all sizes, across all industries are trying to increases the volumes they recruit through this channel.
