Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

As of today, companies are starting to use Facebook to find new employees. This creates a major threat to online websites that are looked upon as job boards such as LinkedIn Corp. Right now, the use of Facebook for finding new employees is going slow but it will soon expand in growth and use. “In addition to posting jobs and videos of current employees on its Facebook page, the company has recruiters and other employees find user groups and join discussions.” For example, i feel like Facebook is still a useful source within hiring an employee, at my job they research your name online to see what kind of person you are and what you post outside of work, I never thought that actually happened but it does. Online job recruiting, the old fashioned way of finding brand ambassadors are on a decline. Normally when searching for a new product to use, for example, you'll contact your friends. Maybe they have a similar product and can give you recommendations. After all, you trust your friends and you also trust that your friends wouldn't buy something that didn't work well. Brands then decided they were to locate "brand ambassadors" to push their product, give reviews, and get the word out that their product is good. Yet it's on a decline because maybe sometimes ambassadors are just using the companies to get free product (Free product is a very good incentive to become an ambassador). So non-ambassadors view brand ambassadors as biased and just freeloading off the companies. In my opinion it is preferable to meet and apply for a job in person, I feel it says a lot about the person to show up and meet face to face which shows more professionalism and enthusiasm for the position that sending a simple online application.