SiteVisibility have produced a whitepaper, enttitled “Promoting your Job Board or Recruitment website via Facebook” offering practical and actionable tips for recruitment businesses.
You can download the whitepaper from their website.
However, I asked Jennie, their marketing and pr manager, if she would give a bit more of an overview on the whitepaper for me to share here…
As social networking sites become ubiquitous recruitment businesses need to understand how to exploit them. Are you promoting your job board or recruitment website through facebook?
The almost perfect demographic mix exists on Facebook for most recruitment websites, combined with a number of different approaches to try to reach your target audience. Many of which can be tested with relatively small budgets but with high creativity and effectiveness.
If you want to attract new candidate & advertisers, build brand loyalty, distinguish yourself from your competition and avoid become disconnected from your customers you should consider creating a Facebook presence.
At the moment there are five ways for recruiters and the publishers of job boards to get involved.
· Facebook Pages
· Social Ads
· Classified Adverts
· Applications
· Groups
Understanding the potential and beginning to participate are the first but most important steps in the process, and hopefully through reading this white paper you’ll be prepared to dive head first or know where to look when appointing an agency for help and support.
So, if that’s piqued your interest you can download the whitepaper from here: http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/facebook.htm.





About.com just added 3 new sites to their Top 10 Employment sites list:
http://www.linkedin.com
http://www.realmatch.com
http://www.indeed.com
If you want to get a job, go for it!
I agree that the potential of facebook is huge and any job board / recruiter not taking advantage of this opportunity to engage a wide demographic is missing out. We (JobDreamz.co.uk) recently launched a job search application and a page on facebook. It takes a bit of work to become familiar with the platform but well worth the effort.
If you are a facebook member you can check out our app if you wish.
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=17198457905&ref=s
Regards
http://www.jobdreamz.co.uk
Sorry for posting twice but thought some of your readers may also find this ofcom report on social networking interesting. I forget where I came across the link originally.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/medlitpubrss/socialnetworking/report.pdf
Regards