Small Bakery Uses MySpace to Recruit Employees
Although some HR search engine optimization experts might question how well MySpace and other social networking sites can be used for recruitment purposes, such blue chip recruiting organizations as the U.S. Marines use MySpace for recruitment purposes. But if you're a smaller organization, can and should you use MySpace as a recruiting tool? If you're a small bakery in Sacramento, the answer is yes.
According to a story in the Sacramento Bee newspaper, an employee of the Freeport Bakery created a MySpace page for past and present employees of the bakery. Most of the bakery's 47 employees are high school and college-age students and use the site to stay in touch with friends and family.
So what's so great about the Freeport Bakery's use of MySpace? It truly is networking. They're using it to stay in touch with current and past employees. They're networking with them. When they have a job opening, they can instantly communicate it to their network. Maybe a past employee will be interested in becoming a boomerang employee by returning to work for the bakery. Or maybe that past employee will refer her sibling, cousin, or friend. Awesome.
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