EOC Week 5: Social Networks and Job Hunting

Employers are using social network sites a lot more for hiring methods. My opinion on this is that they shouldn’t use Facebook as a source for looking up their future employees. It’s kind of for me an invasion of privacy. They are other social networking sites to be design for professional use only like LinkedIn and I think that’s a better site to look at if you want to spy on your future employees. It will show their potentials and experiences that the future employee has. “Others note that while LinkedIn contains a more comprehensive résumé database,

candidates tend to value referrals from their connections on Facebook more.”( Recruiters Troll Facebook for Candidates They Like, Joe Light). Facebook wasn’t designed to be a professional social networking site; therefore I don’t understand why recruiters would be going to search for their new employees through it.

I do understand that companies are using social network sites as new sources of marketing and advertising and that’s a great idea I don’t have no problem with that. I think that’s a great way to have your consumers engage with the brand a lot more. “For example, brands ranging from Burger King to the Chicago Bulls are “tweeting” on Twitter.” (Marketing: An Introduction, Armstrong & Kotler, Chapter 5 page 17).  Doing things like that makes the consumer participate more and get to know about special events or promotions that the brand is doing. Some companies use YouTube as another social networking site to have a different way to get to their consumers. That’s another fun and different way to get audience’s attention.  I don’t disagree with companies using social sites for advertising and marketing but I do disagree when they try to hire through this sites. Social networking sites were designed for simply social matters not for professional.