{"id":999881497,"date":"2015-11-03T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dice.npgdev.com\/?p=782953272"},"modified":"2015-11-03T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:01:00","slug":"how-to-rev-up-an-employee-generated-social-content-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dice.npgdev.com\/hiring\/recruitment\/how-to-rev-up-an-employee-generated-social-content-engine","title":{"rendered":"How to Rev Up an Employee-Generated Social Content Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AshleyCheretes\"<\/p>\n

Content is king.<\/strong> That rule certainly applies for every form of communication and marketing, including social media. During the recent Social Recruiting Pro Tips Webinar, \u201cHow To Engage Millennials Through Social Recruiting,\u201d Ashley Cheretes<\/strong>, Recruitment Marketing Manager at ADP (@ashleycheretes<\/a>), offered some tips for creating your own employee-generated content engine. Her steps included: Listen<\/strong> Millennials literally grew up with social media. Many of them find it an indispensable way to communicate. Tap into that expertise. Find your organization\u2019s social media superstars and learn from their habits. Run your ideas by them and get their input as you create your strategy. Inspire and Be Inspired<\/strong> Embrace the collaborative, conversational nature of social media. Retweeting and reposting things from your social media stars on your company account encourages their participation in your content generation engine. \u201cEncouragement goes a long way,\u201d Ashley said. \u201cIf you retweet and you repost content on your career channels after other people post them, the results will be fabulous, I can assure you.\u201d Soon your social media-savvy employees will be proactively suggesting content, or you\u2019ll be adept at picking up on content that they communicate on their own social media channels. Ashley also suggested using services like AllTop.com<\/a><\/u> that scour the internet for information related to your interests to create a library of content you can fall back on. Refine<\/strong> Use social analytics to zero in on the best time to post and the best content to post. When and what you post depends on the kind of candidate you\u2019re looking for. Facebook, Twitter and others provide native analytics so you can see when your target audiences are most active. Hootsuite<\/a> is a tool that can deliver advanced analytics for all of your social media accounts. Ashley said the big three keys to getting an employee-generated content engine going are:<\/p>\n