What role does HR need to take if social media is going to be the future of recruiting and network building?

HR colleagues need to raise their awareness and skills to keep pace with the market... and the expected higher skills of using social media and networking. Certainly I feel HR people are poorly networked in their respective industries.

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Krish

HR needs  to expand their network through social media.Continuous  development of skills to use social media. And keep themselves in the flow of market requirement.

Building a good working environment and relationships to achieve clear goals

Through websites or university conferences which there is a festival of employment in each university to search for distinct staff through the selection of their candidates in addition to domestic and foreign employment offices

Irina, we in HR are totally aware of the social media recruitment and i have been effectively utilizing various platform of social media. We aggressively used FB for fresh job and college level students for internship, MTO and entry level job. We are using LI for experience and corporate level employees and now the traditional sources have been going down as more and more employers are using social media. Twitter is another popular media for having effective workforce with us.

1. Adopt social media network for recruitment.

2. Expand network.

3. Use system.

HR has a wide role. While social media is gonna be future of R & S, HR need to play the role of marketing as it must know who should be recruited and why?

Yes indeed there must be use of social media not only for recruitment , its use should not be confined only to recruitment , but also for some healthy exchanges of real time HR problems and  cases with solutions from hr perspective, it will leverage the learning process of HR concepts  

agree with all expert answer