Feds, Facebook in jobs initiative
By Jim Townsend
The U.S. Department of Labor launched an initiative with Facebook to help Americans tap into public resources and government programs intended to help American job-seekers find employment.
What you won’t find on the Department of Labor’s Facebook page — facebook.com/socialjobs — are job listings. Not yet, at least.
The initiative is called Social Jobs Partnership, which also includes as “partners” the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies and the DirectEmployers Association (the folks behind the controversial, and endangered, top-level “dot-jobs” domain). The Department of Labor said it hoped to bring Twitter into the initiative along with other social-media sites, including LinkedIn. Here’s the L.A. Times’ Continue reading
White House reaches out about jobs through Monster’s Facebook page
Through this week, the White House is reaching out to job-seekers and employers in dialogues about creating jobs — using Monster’s Facebook page to do so.
Story on Mashable.
Law would block German employers from checking applicants’ social profiles
If the vote later this week goes as anticipated, it will soon be illegal for Germany’s employers to check out job candidates’ private lives on Facebook and other social-networking sites.
The draft law was reported in the English version of Spiegel Online, one of Germany’s pre-eminent magazines, which quoted coverage from two leading newspapers, Die Welt and Süddeutsche Zeitung. The German Cabinet is expected to vote on it on Wednesday, as part of a package of privacy reforms.
Recruiters will be allowed to google prospective employees, and anything they might find beyond social sites is fair game: LinkedIn and other professional-networking sites, for example.
The article didn’t say how the government would enforce the policy, or what the consequences would be for breaking the law.
Recruiters routinely use social-networking sites to find out more about prospective employees, as a sort of cheap-and-easy background check. A 2009 survey commissioned by CareerBuilder said that 45 percent of employers used social-networking sites to research candidates, and about 35 percent admitted to rejecting applicants based on what those searches uncovered.
Oodle launches Marketplace iPhone app
Think of it as a sneak peek at things to come: Oodle announced the launch of its Marketplace app for the iPhone, combining the mobile, social and buy-sell experiences of both Oodle and Oodle-powered Facebook Marketplace.
Oh, and you can also use it to peruse listings from Craigslist. Continue reading
Facebook and YouTube overtake search engines in the U.K.
Experian Hitwise statistics show social networks attracted more traffic in May than search engines. Social networks accounted for 11.9 percent of U.K. Internet visits, compared with 11.3 percent of visits to search engines. Continue reading
Telstra launches social media hub
Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications company, has become the most recent telco to launch a unified interface for social mobile, following Motorola’s Blur and HTC’s Sense.
Called Tribe, Telstra’s site lets mobile users update Twitter, MySpace and Facebook simultaneously.
To support the site’s launch, Telstra released figures showing that its five million mobile users were accessing Facebook via their phones 400 per cent more often than in April 2009. At the same time the number of users accessing Twitter had jumped 450 per cent.
“[Tribe] allows customers to manage their social profile from a single, easy-to-use portal that can be accessed from a range of Next G mobiles — not just smartphones,” Telstra’s executive director of mobility products, Ross Fielding, said.
“Best of all, data used to access the service is unmetered meaning most Tribe features are available at no cost to consumers.”
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