Stats for your facebook fan page

If your company has a facebook fan page then you have new stats to help track its ROI. Facebook has recently rolled out a weekly email report that tells you the basic interaction happening with your page. Here’s an example of what ours looks like. We dont know why it took so long for them [...]

Pimp your Facebook fan page

We came across a cool company that offers various plugins to pimp your company’s facebook fan page. Its called Involver, check out the apps they offer.

Facebook recruiting with SMS

The world of mobile recruiting is still a nascent one but Facebook fan pages have a way to use SMS right now that is free and easy to use. If your company has a fan page on Facebook we suggest you begin to use and promote SMS updates to potential candidates and promote your latest [...]

Who’s on Facebook?

The demographics of facebook are always interesting to study. By far the largest population are those people 18-21. But lookout, the fastest growing population is 30 years and older. Matt Dickman has a great ebook on facebook demographics, check it out.

Facebook removes network pages, bad news for recruiters

In case you haven’t noticed the ‘Networks’ link has been removed from the main navigation tabs. We don’t like this move one bit. It removes a place where local people can connect with each other. Whether its just for your region or college. It also removes a tool in the facebook recruiting toolbox. You can [...]

Facebook recruiting tip #6

Did you realize that Facebook is a great sourcing tool? We did. Here’s how you can find candidates, message them and engage them on their turf. One company we know gets a 60-70% response rate for contacting candidates via Facebook. Click the ‘Search‘ link underneath the Facebook logo. There are 2 search features that are [...]

Facebook adding Instant Messaging

For recruitiers on Facebook its getting even easier to connect with candidates. According to the ReadWriteWeb blog: Facebook Chat will be slowly rolled out this week. The announcement, made via The Facebook Blog, says that the rollout will be slow, but, unlike MySpaceIM, there won’t be anything for you to install when it arrives in [...]

Sprint recruiter makes hires via Facebook & MySpace

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Kudos to a member of the Sprint recruiting team who has made several hires from her social network profile. Read about it here.

More about E&Y’s facebook recruiting strategy

Ernst and Yong’s Facebook group is up over 13,000 members. An impressive number. But I found this quote from their director of recruiting about why it works: Dan Black, director of recruiting for Ernst & Young used Facebook to connect with students. But he did so in a different way. Lots of questions were asked [...]

Facebook tops with college students

eMarketer is out with the top 10 sites among college kids. No surprise Facebook is #1. Obviously if they are hanging out there so should your recruiters. Here are some tips to do that.