With the UK recruitment sector showing signs of recovery there’s never been a better time to mingle. Sharing thoughts with peers is both invigorating and educational, all the while adding important values to your personal brand.
Many recruiters view LinkedIn as an enormous job board or talent pool, which, arguably, it is. However, to me this belies the premise on which the social media platform was designed in the first place – to help and encourage professionals to make tangible, valuable, contacts; building important business networks along the way.
In our evolving industry we should each be looking at ways to extend not just what but who we know – an age-old adage that should particularly resonate.
For recruiters LinkedIn should be viewed as more than a talent-attraction channel. It’s a chance to accentuate both the personal and company brand. In each of these groups you have the opportunity to do just that.
Get involved…!
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ebrecruit Transforming Recruitment OnlineCreated: May 2009 | Members: 35,838
The self-proclaimed world’s first flat-fee online recruitment service created this group in May 2009 and makes this list by virtue of its UK management team. Outgunning the rest of the groups in terms of member numbers, its relevance is most significant with the regularly topical weekly Announcements, allegedly penned by recruitment legend himself, James Caan.
It is a generic group with all sectors represented and there is decent content to be found. Slightly irritating is the jobs area, which appears to be an hourly update of the manager’s latest conquests!
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ecruitment ProfessionalsCreated: June 2009 | Members: 4,567
“Aimed at Recruitment Consultants, Head-hunters, Managers, Executives and Directors alike this group helps develop your business further”. At least that’s the hook for your membership. The content isn’t bad but you’ll want to join this group for the contacts as much as any interesting updates you’re likely to receive.
Fair play to group owner, Wendy Overton, for seemingly ensuring membership remains tight.
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cruitment SocietyCreated: June 2008 | Members: 2,192
The Recruitment Society is the UK voice & Membership Association for best practice and innovation in resourcing. Membership and community is inclusive to all professionals with an interest in recruitment, recruiting, retaining and developing people in the workplace.
Okay, so cynics will point to this group being a vehicle for Recruitment Society promotion but there is no obligation and manager, Steve Huxham, drops lots of useful information into the discussion area and makes a point of stirring conjecture.
Many recruitment big-wigs hang out here.
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cruiter Created: September 2007 | Members: 1,947
By virtue of its members this group should be better than it is. Owner, Louise Triance, has a habit of attracting some of the most renowned names in recruitment to her various business activities, and she’s done it again with this collection of industry luminaries. So it’s a shame that more of them don’t contribute.
Still, if you’re after recruitment contacts from all aspects of the cycle, you’re likely to find them here.
RCEuro
Created: August 2008 | Members: 1,661
RCEURO offers a range of vertical community applications & services founded to serve the European staffing/HR sector. It offers the European staffing professional a community of shared best practices, an opportunity to partner, and knowledge sharing within the European recruitment community.
Whilst not technically a solely UK-focussed group, you can’t ignore the relevancy of the content and, above almost all others, group manager, Alan Whitford, works tirelessly to enhance the reputation of recruitment, whilst providing a platform for recruiters to embrace an evolving industry.
Took from: blog.onlymarketingjobs.com
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