SoftwareEngineerNews
CareerBuilder CEO Says Technology is Driving Jobs Growth

The release of today’s Jobs Report shows the lowest unemployment in the US since 1969 and CareerBuilder is now predicting that an additional 8,310,003 jobs will be created over the next 5 years.

IT Management
CareerBuilder Launches Facebook Referral App

CareerBuilder has launched a new application called “[email protected]” that allows employees to share their company’s job openings on their Facebook page.

[email protected] pulls open jobs housed on a company’s website or in their Applicant Tracking System.  After an employee adds the [email protected] application to their Facebook account, CareerBuilder’s job recommendation engine identifies matches in that employee’s network to the company’s available jobs.

IT Management
More Employers Using Social Media To Promote Their Companies

More than one-third (35%) of employers in the U.S. use social media to promote their company, according to a new CareerBuilder survey.

Jason-Ferrara Twenty-five percent of these employers are using social media to connect with customers and find new business, while others are using it to recruit and research potential employees (21%), or improve their employment brands (13%).

SocialMediaNews
Employers Using Social Networks To Screen Employees

As social networking becomes increasingly widespread, more employers are using these sites to screen potential employees.

More than half (53%) of employers reported in a recent CareerBuildere.co.uk survey that they use social networking sites to research job candidates. Another 12 percent plan to start using social networking sites for screening.