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Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 24, 2006 - Social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook are amongst the most popular sites on-line, especially amongst high school and college students. Unlike most sites where even regular visitors spend at most minutes a week and look at a handful of pages, visitors to social networking sites often invest hours a day at the sites, view hundreds of pages, and disclose a tremendous amount of information about themselves and their friends. More and more employers are using sites such as MySpace and Facebook as part of their background checking process. Yet even though colleges, career counselors and others have been getting their message through to many students and other job seekers that sites such as MySpace and Facebook can be dangerous to those who are looking for employment, it has not yet registered with many employers that social networking sites also pose dangers and opportunities for employers. At the Kennedy Information Recruiting 2006 Conference and Expo on November 9, 2006, CollegeRecruiter.com founder Steven Rothberg will demystify social networking sites and demonstrate the tremendous risks and opportunities they present to employers.
Attendees to Rothberg's nuts-and-bolts, humorous presentation about the dangers and opportunities presented to employers who use social networking sites, will learn about social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and others. What are they? How are they used by candidates? Attendees will discover how a small but rapidly growing percentage of employers are using social networking sites as part of their recruiting process and understand why social networking sites are dangerous when used as part of a background checking process but present tremendous opportunities when used as part of the sourcing process.
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