Sometime back I remember seeing an email from Monster about BeKnown. I hadn\u2019t tried it until today when I happened to get another email about it.<\/p>\n
What is this?<\/strong> This is an application for Facebook to make it appear\/work similar to LinkedIn. So you can use facebook to create your professional profile and recruiters could use it to search profiles. It takes a few clicks to install\u00a0BeKnown\u00a0<\/a>on to your Facebook account. It claims to keep this professional network separate from your friend network. But the rate at which these networks grow, many times I forget their association among my 400 odd connections and am a light facebook user anyway so doesn\u2019t matter to me.<\/p>\n The oppty:<\/strong> I think if Facebook users adopt this application (not sure what\u2019s their incentive since many likely ones to adopt may already use Linkedin), it becomes a way to reach a larger pool of users who are not on LinkedIn (roughly 700 MM Facebook users vs. 200MM on Linkedin).<\/p>\n My experience:<\/strong>\u00a0I tried it today and haven\u2019t yet filled out my profile fully but seemed easy to do. However my curiosity was to see if this helps Pragna\u2019s recruiting projects. There I have to say, was little disappointed with the search results and the completeness of the profiles. I tried a few searches for technical, manufacturing roles and couldn\u2019t find anyone really.<\/p>\n I am sure recruiters would love the prospect of tapping Facebook. BeKnown is a first such oppty (Branchout was one such app \u00a0before), but then they have to wait till the network throws up something meaningful :-).<\/p>\n Sometime back I remember seeing an email from Monster about BeKnown. I hadn\u2019t tried it until today when I happened to get another email about it. What is this? This is an application for Facebook to make it appear\/work similar to LinkedIn. So you can use facebook to create your professional profile and recruiters could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-talent-acquisition"],"yoast_head":"\nShare this:<\/h3>\n
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