Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

Job recruiters using Facebook to find new employees is an interesting idea.  There are already job boards, such as LinkedIn, that are created for this purpose I can see why they would want to go to Facebook though, this website has more than 750 million users, many more users than the job board sites, so therefore it wouldn’t be hard to find somebody that would want to work on a website with so many people. “Facebook's use as a job-recruitment tool remains small, but its appeal may be growing. Some recruiters say they have all but eliminated their spending on job boards, which can charge a few hundred dollars per job posting, depending on volume (Job Recruiters Turn to Facebook-WSJ).” It hasn’t phased out job boards yet, but some people worry that it might. While some people have been hired through Facebook, jobs requiring more experience and higher level positions are still being done through the normal job board websites such as LinkedIn. “Marketers are working to harness the power of these new social networks to promote their products and build closer customer relationships (Marketing, an Introduction, 142).” People use social media outlets, such as Facebook, a lot today. This is a great way for people to connect with other people, so therefore it would make sense that it would be a good place to find people for some work. They are already on this website so it makes sense to go where the people are already. Some of the downsides of this are that the job board websites are affected negatively from this, and Facebook is a social media website, a place where people go to communicate with each other, it is a little informal compared to job board websites where people find people based on professional connections and then discover jobs through that mean. It is interesting that people can get jobs through Facebook, but it appears that jobs require more experience would be posted through job boards.