Facebook for Recruiting? You Better Believe It!

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LinkedIn is the place to be for recruiting. You can’t deny its premier features for sourcing, job posting, messaging, and networking, but it does come with a price tag.

LinkedIn works hard to attract and engage its users to entice them to use their platform exclusively for recruiting.

But there are other social media sites that are great for sourcing candidates without any cost except time and effort. With hundreds of millions of active users, Facebook is one of those sites. A 2012 CareerBuilder survey found that employers are frequenting Facebook slightly more than LinkedIn to research job candidates, and much more than Twitter or other social media sites. And Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerburg hinted at Facebook’s designs on recruiting and job search when he announced Graph Search.


Using Facebook To Search For Candidates
There are several ways to use Facebook to search for and research candidates, and uganda phone number library Facebook’s more friendly, casual format facilitates introductions and contacts. Try these ways to use Facebook for candidate sourcing when you are looking for alternatives or additions to LinkedIn.

Directory

Grow your candidate pool with Facebook Directory. Search for people, pages, groups, and applicants. Users who share their employment histories and include their position titles in their profiles are searchable by recruiters. Find candidates with the skill sets and experience you’re looking for and connect with employees of companies in industries you recruit for.

Graph Search

Facebook’s new Graph Search lets you search millions of active users with specific queries. Easily create effective queries with terms like “people who like Cobol programming and live in California” or “computer science students graduated in 2012” for relevant results. Although Facebook is not yet as focused on professional networking as LinkedIn, Graph Search makes it a free source of candidates.