Andrew Charlesworth, Computing, Thursday 3 June 2010 at 18:09:00
Tap your friends for a job
Vacancy search engine The service includes a private messaging function so they can contact their Users are able to discover vacancies based on their current or previous job Simply Hired beta tested this service in the US and claims it has doubled ?Simply Hired is showing what is possible when you make it easy to find jobs According to Simply Hired, half of all hiring has been done via referrals. In
Simply
Hired has set up a service that allows job seekers to use their Facebook
account to discover new openings available at the companies where their friends
work, or at organisations whose Facebook pages they like.
friends to find out more about a position and the company's culture before
applying.
titles, location, interests and their friends? companies on Simply Hired's site.
From the results page, job seekers can browse friends? firms and search for
suggested openings.
user engagement. The full version now rolling out in the UK, US, Australia,
Canada and India allows users to see a company directory that lists where all
their friends work, available jobs at companies they like, and the companies
where they have the highest number of friends.
through friends,? said Ethan Beard, director of Facebook's developer network.
?Personal relationships and professional networking have always been the best
ways to find a new job. By integrating with Facebook, Simply Hired is bringing
this to life online and helps users tap into their social connections to
personalise the job search process.?
a poll conducted on the head-hunter's site, 73 per cent of respondents rank
Facebook as the social media site they use most often; 43 per cent said they
devote at least half of the time they spend searching for a job on social media
sites such as Facebook.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2264151/vacancy-search-engine-teams
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