Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

As of today, companies are starting to use Facebook to find new employees. This creates a major threat to online websites that are looked upon as job boards such as LinkedIn Corp. Right now, the use of Facebook for finding new employees is going slow but it will soon expand in growth and use. “In addition to posting jobs and videos of current employees on its Facebook page, the company has recruiters and other employees find user groups and join discussions.” This creates more use to Facebook as employers do their findings. This is a way Facebook is able to gain new users. “But if current growth trends continue, Facebook could rival traditional job boards in 2012, said Jobs2Web analytics manager Phil Schrader.” This then creates more use for Facebook but leaves other sites with less and less use of their sites. Several job posting websites are doing well in growth but as the use of Facebook for job postings and findings will soon take away several attention from those job posting sites who’s sites revolve around job postings. Maybe if Facebook teams up with some job posting sites this can create more social use and more users to both sides. Not only would Facebook gain more popularity but also so will the job posting sites if they were to team up together as one team. “Beginning next week, the company also plans to pilot a new Facebook application that will allow them to search for candidates on BranchOut Inc.'s Facebook app, which, similar to BeKnown, builds a professional networking layer on top of Facebook and has more than 2.6 million monthly users, according to AppData.com.” Some people say they would much rather use Facebook to apply for positions but if Facebook and job posting sites teamed up together this would eliminate the use of more people favoring Facebook over actual job posting sites.