“Social Networking: The Good” is the first installment of a three part series which looks at how social networking websites (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc) are affecting businesses today.
One of the most challenging and important tasks a small business owner is faced with is hiring good employees. But how much can you actually learn about someone from a resume, background check and an interview?
Many companies are now adding social networking sites to their screening process in order to find out the true personality of their candidates.
Rather than visiting each site to perform searches or filtering through Google’s search return on a candidate’s name, Wink is a site which compiles all the social networking sites’ profiles for you. You can perform searches using name, location and interests, but also there is a “Careers” field so you can search by the type of position you’re trying to fill.
Wink can also be used to see how your current employees are representing your company on social networking sites. I’ll take a closer look at this later in the series.