Work for Us makes Facebook recruiting easy

There has been a lot of interesting talk about using Facebook and Twitter as part of a social media recruiting strategy. It’s clear that using Facebook and Twitter are obvious additions to your recruitment sourcing strategy.

However, as the whole social media recruitment strategy is still a rather new and exciting area there is a tendency by self-appointed ‘experts’ to make a meal out of what is really a cream cracker — and charge you a lot of money for that cracker too.

So, it is with some relief that we picked up a story from Jobs Portal Watch about a new Facebook app which gives companies with Facebook fan pages a very simple way of posting their jobs on their Facebook Fan Pages.

Work for Us is a simple light app that plugs into a company fan page, integrating with the wall feed and also adding a tab. In effect, it creates a job section on your fan page. It’s pretty basic but that’s its strength.  You can post jobs (or pull them from the web – though we couldn’t get that bit to work)  and have candidates apply by email or via your company web page (or anywhere else online).

We had a very simple play with it this morning on the 30 day trial plan. It took us five minutes to set up, to post a job and be done. If only all of recruiting was like this. It’s $9 a month for the paid app which allows a larger volume of jobs. As Facebook career apps goes, I haven’t seen anything better so far.

Check out the app at: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=404596412628&v=app_109331775755516