Facebook is Numero Uno
Facebook just passed MySpace as the most popular site amongst 17-25 year olds. Employers who are looking for new and better ways to recruit students and recent graduates take note: MySpace is becoming your father's Oldsmobile.
Employers should use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to include candidates in the hiring process in much the same way that employers using resume banks at job boards such as CollegeRecruiter.com.
But employers should exercise tremendous caution when using social networking sites to exclude candidates from the hiring process by using it as part of their background checking process because the sites are notorious for being riddled with bogus information by third parties and claims by students about themselves that are so outlandish that anyone with a sense of humor would get the joke, unless that person is outside of the 17-25 year old age bracket.
Tip of the hat: Matt Martone's JobSearchMarketing.com Blog
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