Week 5 EOC: Social Networks and Job Hunting

A lot of networking and job hunting can now be done through social networking. “More companies are trying to tap Facebook Inc.'s 750-million-plus user base to find new employees, threatening traditional job boards and competing with LinkedIn Corp., which has dominated the online professional networking arena.” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903885604576490763... I think this isn’t a very good think but then again with today's technology it makes it easy and useful. Since a lot of people need to learn how to work the internet and become accustom to it seeing that it is they new way to do things through social networking. You can read in the Market book how it is so easy to be able to do things with the things that are available to us now. “But these days, thanks to modern technology, armed with little more than a video camera, laptop, and a cell phone, anyone can spread the word about products and brand experiences to thousands, even millions, of other consumers.” Marketing: An Introduction for Education Management Corporation pg. 143 this shows why job hunting and hiring is done through the social networking. Companies can get all of their information out to people on Facebook page, their websites, and put an ad to say they are hiring and others will be able to easily see this and start applying. For example the Sony Company has online applicants for the job hunters on the internet, “Out of 2,000 or more online applicants, Sony picked only 25 brand ambassadors. The ambassadors were given a free camera and other equipment along with lessons on how to use them.” Marketing: An Introduction for Education Management Corporation pg. 143 this is a new way for job hunting and applying for the jobs on the internet and still staying up to date with the technology. But by us doing this we might lose the original paper and pen professional ways for job hunting and applying.