Social Media: Good or Bad for Food Recruitment?
At Focus Management Consultants we have embraced Social Media and have certainly seen positive results. But equally we tread carefully into this new mass of activity and initiatives.
Indeed we have some clients who ban facebook pages for their company and many are cautious of the bad press and comment that might come their way from disgruntled employees past and present. However the more enlightened view seems to be that it's happening anyway ... so get on with it, accept that not everyone will be your biggest fan, and when criticised you have a chance to respond.
It is also interesting to see the legality of Social Media sites. Should you check facebook and make recruitment decisions, or indeed discipline someone who had a Monday off and had written they had been on the town all weekend? The point is, we have to accept we are not 'hidden' anymore; we can all be found - yes we can all find out which street we all live on and with whom. So maybe we need to accept it and realise this is a key piece of the modern business world.
Indeed we have some clients who ban facebook pages for their company and many are cautious of the bad press and comment that might come their way from disgruntled employees past and present. However the more enlightened view seems to be that it's happening anyway ... so get on with it, accept that not everyone will be your biggest fan, and when criticised you have a chance to respond.
It is also interesting to see the legality of Social Media sites. Should you check facebook and make recruitment decisions, or indeed discipline someone who had a Monday off and had written they had been on the town all weekend? The point is, we have to accept we are not 'hidden' anymore; we can all be found - yes we can all find out which street we all live on and with whom. So maybe we need to accept it and realise this is a key piece of the modern business world.
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