new ways of hiring.

[{OF}Blong]

well my employer is now making youtube and opening myspace accounts trying to "lure" prospective employees.

Perrigo dances onto YouTube to lure talent - Michigan News, Updates, Photos & Video | Detroit, Lansing - MLive.com

I know the youtube video was posted about 2 weeks ago but we now are in the "news" for it. We are actually bringing in around 80-100 manpower (30 of them are in my plant) here next couple weeks to start training them for our busy season. Most of you know how much OT I already work so it might give you a hint as to how business is doing lol.

anywho I thought it was kinda humorous that all these companies were adding youtube/myspace/facebook to the inaccessable lists and now they are "unbanning" them because they are using those sites to try and employ others.

[Soul]

this is happening all over the place, my employer hasn't done youtube, but has done myspace as well as a few other social sites.

[ClydeFrog]

Personally I'd say it's a good thing. When I graduated from college all we had campus interviews and beyond that we could buy newspapers, cold call and send letters. I was interested in places that weren't coming to recruit at MTU so I sent 150-200 letters/resumes out. At one point I had a bale of FOADs from power companies out west (close to good trout fishing). I estimate that of the letters I sent I received zilch from 30%, FOADs from 68% and 2% positive response. Not such a great method for job searching for when you consider all the (beer) money I spent on good paper, stamps and envelopes not to mention all the (beer drinking) time that it took to address all of those!

[dudio]

I'd like to work in a brewery and watch YouTube all day