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Facebook was all smiles Tuesday and for good reason, reaching significant milestones in both user numbers and cash flow.

The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of “Generation F” – the Facebook Generation. At a minimum, they’ll expect the social environment of work to reflect the social context of the Web, rather than as is currently the case, a mid-20th-century Weberian bureaucracy.

Social media sites like LinkedIn and Twitter are often the go-to applications for career networking, but now Facebook users can contact people who have interviewed, worked, or are currently employed at the places they want to work at next with a new app called Inside Job.

“Where do your best candidates come from?

That’s the million-dollar question that the AIM Group, experts in online media revenue, wanted to know for their annual Recruitment Advertising 2009 survey. They asked 75 recruiters, HR professionals, managers, and recruitment agents where they are spending their limited ad budgets to find out what is and isn’t working for them.

A clever social networking campaign is helping BDO Spencer Steward get onto the wish lists of hundreds of top candidates it was not reaching before – applications rising by 60% within two months of the campaign’s launch in February 2009.

The question is asked many times – should we use Facebook Pages or Facebook Groups to speak to job seekers on Facebook?
Here’s an excerpt from a great article which will guide you in making the best choice when deciding which element to use as part of your recruitment strategy – taken from Tim Davies website
“Both [...]

In the next few posts we are going to focus on the social networking giant, Facebook – continuing our topic of recruiting using social networks.
Today we provide you with some very interesting official statistics regarding the network – from here we will start looking into the “to do’s” and “to do nots” of using the [...]