How Social is Your Business?

Depends on how it is presented and used.

I experienced an example, a recruiter for a engineering company, and was trying to recruit for a packaging engineer as well as other engineers for well over a year. I had put in my resume did a follow up calls and no response, six months later I received a rejection and wish me good luck. I googled the recruiters name, and google returns his facebook, so I looked at it. He states he works for for a large engineering firm in Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA as a recruiter and is looking for a packaging engineer as well as other engineers and he's having trouble finding one. He also posted he likes clubbing and sports cars. Alot of his responses were female.

It was hard to believe that there is that anount of lack of engineers to fill this position with this job market.

One female which sounded like an profession executive posted, That his recruiting methods may be the problem and suggested letting a professional do it, and gave some suggestions such as names to help him to do it more professional.

After (2) years he's still looking.

My opinion is, he uses it to pick up chicks. Nothing the matter with that, thats his dicision.

Because no matter what one does, twittering, texting, checking out your face book, writing/answering blogs. It all sucks time, and a good percentage is not work related.

But I think, if you are going to social network, one should try to separate personal and business and present it professional and not both on his wallpaper.

p911

No one in my engineering company uses social networking for business purposes (based on an internal survey designed to insure no penalty for the "incorrect" answer). However, my wife the lawyer finds it very fruitful.