In This Presentation:

Who Uses Social Networking?
- 46% of online American adults use a social networking site
- Facebook has 350 million users worldwide, MySpace has 100 million users
- Over 70 million blogs exist worldwide -175,000 are created daily

How are Companies Using Social Networking?
- Advertising and marketing (ESI!)
- Connecting to customers (ESI!)
- Collaboration amongst employees
- Monitoring current employees
- Screening potential employees
• Pre-offer and post-offer

Pre-Offer Screening
- 45% of employers use social networking sites to screen candidates
- Of those: 75% use LinkedIn; 48% use Facebook
- 35% of employers did not hire a candidate because of content found on the candidate’s social networking site

Pros of Monitoring Employees
- Access to pertinent information not readily available through other means
- Understanding your workforce
- Discovering misconduct....

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