CollegeRecruiter.com Founder to Speak About Whether Facebook, MySpace and Other Social Networking Sites are Dangerous, Opportunities, or Both at OnRec Global Summit for Online Recruitment (July 26, 2006 Press Release)

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Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 26, 2006 – Social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook, and Friendster 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, Facebook, and Friendster 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, Facebook, Friendster 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 for employers. At the OnRec Expo 2006 Global Summit for Online Recruitment on September 12, 2006, CollegeRecruiter.com founder Steven Rothberg will demystify social networking sites and demonstrate the tremendous risks and opportunities they present to employers.

The aim of OnRec Expo 2006 is to bring delegates interested in online recruitment from the U.S. together with delegates from around the world, who share a common interest, provide stimulating content and debate, alongside an Expo that will provide a unique mix of indigenous suppliers, as well as a fresh view from international suppliers that can supply the U.S. home market, or that can supply products and services in the local markets. Attendees will learn how online recruitment is developing and moving forward.

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, Friendster, 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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Steven Rothberg
3109 W 50 St Ste 121
Minneapolis, MN 55410-2102
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Phone: 800-835-4989
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Steven@CollegeRecruiter.com
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