It’s no secret that good company marketing is imperative for any business hoping to attract the finest employees in today’s competitive market.

While there isn’t a strict order of tasks for an effective recruitment marketing strategy—it should be tailored to your needs—it’s essential to make sure you dedicate enough time to amplification. Simply put, great content means little if no one reads it.

Yes, asking your staff to spend time on social media is actually a good thing.

Social media isn’t a secret anymore. If you’re not familiar with it or how to use it, maybe it’s time to catch up, right? The best tool you have is your employees. In 2015, getting your staff to share and promote your content will become really important. Gary from Accounts is your key player.

Why use employees?

It takes no great leap of faith to work out that, no matter how great you claim your company is, if it’s not a message shared by the people on a level with those you’re trying to attract, it’s going to hold as much authority as David Cameron praising Poundland. Websites like Glassdoor are driving this.

Your staff are living the story you’re trying to tell – it makes sense you use them to tell it.

People are more willing to share content when recommended by people rather than brands. If your people share your content, it immediately gives it more authenticity.

Bear in mind also that on social networks – especially on LinkedIn – your employees’ connections will be just the sort of people that you’re looking for. Yes, asking your staff to spend time on social media is actually a good thing.

Salesforce.com – rated by LinkedIn as one of the top ten most in-demand companies to work for in 2014 – saw a 60 percent increase in employee referrals after CEO Marc Benioff asked employees to help promote high-priority roles on their social networks.

Impressed? Don’t worry; you can do it, too.

How do I get them on board?

If your company is as good as it says it is, hopefully you shouldn’t need to persuade them. But, in many cases, simply letting your staff know that you want them to share content is a good step. If they’re aware of this, they’re going to feel more comfortable sharing and posting to their personal networks.

Depending on the size of your company, you might want to use an employee advocacy tool – something like Dynamic Signal or Circulate.it – that facilitates the sharing of your content across large numbers of employees.

Regardless of the method you’re using, it’s wise to provide your staff with both the content you want them to share, and guidelines on how to do it. This doesn’t have to be purely prescriptive, but you need to let them know what you’re trying to do and what message you want to get out.

After all, you’re not trying to trick your employees into sharing content – this is content you want them to want to share. Send out a weekly email with your content – pictures, blogs, anything you can think of and want out in the world.

The most powerful weapon in your arsenal is one right under your nose: your employees.

The bottom line is that your staff is more than just the people that you work with and that work for you. They’re the living, breathing evidence of your recruitment content. If they’re sharing your content, you can guarantee there will be likeminded people reading it.