Midterm EOC: Job Recruiters Turn To Facebook

Before it used to be hard to find a job through word of mouth or even newspaper search, but with today's technology, job searching has become easy with just one click away. For example: linkedin,

What is LinkedIn and how can it help me?

• LinkedIn is the leading professional network on the web
• Connect with classmates, faculty, and family professionally
• Find new opportunities for internships and full time positions
• Manage what potential employers learn about you from the Internet
• Find key contacts at companies that interest you (http://www.snre.umich.edu/current_students/career_services/what_is_linkedin)

Linkedin is the of the best sites that is defined as social media it is also linked to Facebook. Facebook has also gained insight of job recruitment and is making recruiters easier to tract and find potential candidates.

“Facebook is really a platform, not an application. While LinkedIn is being run like a data-driven application, Facebook is really a sharing platform from which many companies can build applications”. – Forbes