Is there a case for using social networking?

摘要

Confused? You probably have every right to be. Just as we are getting to grips with the idea that internet based job boards that drive traffic to effective and appealing web sites is the way forward for recruitment the word is on the street that job boards have had their day and the savvy recruiters are turning their attention to social networking. But is this just hype? After all, some of the first media articles suggesting social networking is 'the next big thing' in recruitment appeared in 2004. And here we are in 2008 still waiting for it to make a real impact on the recruitment market.