It pays to be social KCOM Group saves £216,000 by using social media as a recruitment tool. 24 Jan 2013 KCOM Group saves £216,000 by using social media as a recruitment tool The KCOM Group recruitment team have been making the most of social media for direct recruitment and have saved around £216,000 in the past 12 months. By using a direct sourcing strategy, the team has dramatically reduced the amount of money that is usually spent on using recruitment agencies. In fact, they have doubled what they had intended to save by reducing the use of traditional methods and increasing their focus on social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter. Gemma Reucroft, Head of HR at Kcom said “Over the last year we have directly hired people for roles, ranging from part time customer service advisors to director level positions.
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