Thousand percent rise in Facebook job applications
Dan Cohen, sales director of U.K. multi-posting software provider Broadbean Technology, told the APSCo (Association of Professional Staffing Companies) in London that applications to jobs on Facebook rose by 1,000 percent and applications to jobs on Twitter by 500 percent in 2011 from 2010, according to an analysis done by the company.
Describing use of the two leading social networks for recruitment as “a no-brainer”, Cohen said “it is free, it is extremely efficient, and it is not going to go away”.
While the figures might be eye-catching, the growth in social recruiting may not come as a surprise. Still, Cohen underlined the importance of traditional job boards, which have seen a 10.8 percent rise during the same period. As Cohen put it: “The job board market is still going strong.”
Stepstone.de as Facebook-friendly as always
By Christo Volschenk
The explosive growth of social media recruiters (eg. Facebook’s recruitment networking app BranchOut) and the impact they are making on the online recruitment landscape (described here by U.S. colleague Sharon Hill), spawned an interesting side-show for Germany’s recruitment community in the past week. Continue reading
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
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