Assignment task: Social Media and Communications
Case Assignment:
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In this assignment you will be creating a social media recruitment plan for your employer. If your current employer already has a social media recruitment plan, you will create a plan to revise it.
When used properly, social media recruitment plans can be a valuable addition to an HR department's hiring strategy. Conduct some research and develop a social media plan to attract new employees.
Keep in mind that your social media plan must be inclusive and therefore formalized to attract candidates who represent a variety of cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds with skills and fresh ideas that will enhance the organization.
Drawing on the background material and conducting any needed additional research, prepare a speech to give to your CEO that spells out the social media plan for attracting new employees to three specific positions open at the company. Include a discussion on how the plan will attract a strong group of candidates who are diverse in thought, education, skills, culture, ethnicity, age, and gender.
Your speech may be an audio or video recording of your persuasive speech or a PowerPoint presentation with audio that thoroughly discusses your proposed plan.
If you opt to do a 5- to 7-minute audio or video recording of you delivering a speech covering this assignment, you must upload your final deliverable to YouTube. You will then copy/paste the link generated by YouTube into an MS Word doc that consists of three pages: a cover page, a page with the YouTube link, and a reference page. You will then submit this 3-page file into the appropriate drop box for grading by the posted due date and time. (Prior to the assignment due date, send the link of your audio to another person to test that it opens.)
If you opt to develop a presentation with PowerPoint, include a cover slide, reference list slide, and 10 or more slides covering the various parts of your social media plan. You should have no more than five words and a picture in addition to an audio file for each slide. If you want more than one very short bullet point on your slides, then transition each bullet point one at a time.
Submit this presentation into the appropriate drop box for grading by the posted due date and time.
Be sure to check your Turnitin score via the Practice Dropbox to make sure it is not over 15%.
Assignment Expectations
Demonstrate critical-thinking and analysis of the issue.
In addition to a discussion on how the social media plan is based upon a philosophy of creating a diverse workforce as discussed above, include at least three of the following five sections in your social media recruitment plan:
1. Intro to social media recruitment
- What are the most popular social media networks for recruiters?
- What are the most popular social media networks among job-seekers?
- What are some compelling social media recruiting statistics?
- What are the advantages to using social media for recruitment?
2. The keys to how the plan will attract a strong group of candidates who are diverse in thought, education, skills, culture, ethnicity, age, and gender
3. The best social media recruitment tools
4. Two examples of the best social media recruitment campaigns (What makes them the best?)
5. Social Media Recruiting: Networks, sites
- How can I use LinkedIn to find candidates?
- What are some benefits of using LinkedIn to recruit candidates?
- How can I use Facebook to find candidates?
- What are some benefits of using Facebook to recruit candidates?
- How can I use Twitter to find candidates?