Facebook and Your Truck Driver Recruiting Strategy
With veteran drivers retiring and the industry continuing to grow, fleets need drivers now more than ever. Which means drivers are in extremely high demand. Where are these drivers? Like everyone else, they’re on Facebook.
Is Your Social Media Advertising Reaching Drivers?
The list of social media platforms is constantly growing. The popularity and usage of each platform on that list is constantly growing. The number of drivers who fit your hiring criteria who happen to be using each platform on that list is constantly . . .you get the idea. This constant growth creates endless opportunities […]
3 Ways to Improve Your Driver Recruiting with Marketing Principles
What exactly does marketing have to do with driver recruiting? On the face of it, they seem like two entirely separate subjects. Marketing is all about reaching potential customers and if successful, hopefully forming a positive relationship with them. Does that sound familiar? What if we replace customers with drivers? “Reaching potential customers (drivers) and […]
3 Stats About Contractor Social Media Usage
Social media is a massive community of people. And even the most conservative estimates show that over 2 billion people use social media regularly. That means over 25% of all human beings use social media. Mind blown, huh? Ok, so those are big numbers. But what about your audience of contractors? I mean, there are […]
The Top 4 Channels for Distributing Your Driver Recruiting Content
In today’s driver recruiting marketplace, fleets need drivers and they need them now. It’s a tough marketplace, but you already know that. What you want to know is where can you find a competitive edge. One underutilized tools, for driver recruiters is content marketing. It’s one of the best ways for fleets to engage drivers […]
Recruiting Owner-Operators: What’s Your Social Media Strategy?
If your fleet needs to hire owner-operators, you have to build the right recruiting campaigns to accomplish this win. The only way you can build the right recruiting campaign is by knowing exactly how your audience is consuming media. As the third and final part of our series on recruiting owner-operators (the other posts you […]
5 Key Takeaways From the 2014 Company Driver Connectivity Report
For most fleets, the bulk of your driver employees are probably made up of company drivers and not owner-operators. Not only are there more company drivers, but they are also much easier to recruit than their truck owning counterparts. Just knowing you need to recruit company drivers is not enough. Research can provide you with […]
Where Should You Use YouTube Videos to Recruit Drivers?
As a recruiter, you also have to be a marketer. You probably know this, but it’s important to be reminded every so often. Lately recruiting has been a tough business; so it’s more important than ever to remember you are a marketer. You have a responsibility to keep your trucks on the road by hiring […]
3 Reasons Why You Should Use YouTube to Recruit Drivers
The current driver shortage is making things difficult to keep trucks on the road, to say the least. As a driver recruiter you have to be willing to use every resource possible to make sure your trucks keep hauling freight. Marketing offers a number of ways to do this, many of which you are probably […]
