BranchOut - Interesting
BranchOut says that 80% of new jobs come through direct networking. Really? I doubt that but still BranchOut seems like a great tool to fish out details from your facebook account. It spiders out the career /company info from your connected friends and their friends allowing you to introduce or network with them.
A great facebook application for Job seekers and Recruiters. Its very simple to use after logging in.
If successful, this might be the biggest competetion for LinkedIn but for now people might be skeptical with the lack of privacy issues in Facebook. BrachOut should try capture the Gen Y or the professionals coming out from school. Most of them would have a facebook account but NO professional relationship. This could be great combination.
A lot of recruiters are going to sign up soon with the free job posting as most of them are still figuring out how to tap the millions of profiles in facebook. It will let you link your entire job posting (Imagine all your 100+ jobs on Facebook).
Another similar Facebook application is Work For Us installing an App to spider/pull the info. One another which seems to be on work is Pursuit but I couldn't sign up...(sign up's Limited)
For now BranchOut is for keeps
Rithesh,
Thank you for your post on BranchOut! You're right that BranchOut is a great resource for job seekers (especially gen-y) and recruiters. In this economy everyone can use some help and Facebook's social graph of 500 million people is an unprecedented boost.
Best,
Mike Del Ponte
Marketing Manager, BranchOut
www.branchout.com
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