Tawny Labrum is from BINC, a professional headhunting firm on the West Coast of the United States. Tawny has posted this great article with a myriad of suggestions of how jobseekers can get the best from Facebook.
One example is Officebook, a Facebook Application which lets you check out the culture and values of a company before you join it. You add tags to describe your ideal values, and search against companies that other users have tagged.
Testimonials is another application which you can use from Facebook. It helps you to gather your personal, professional and academic references in one place from your teachers, friends, and co-workers. At the time of writing there are 4.5m testimonials from users of this app.
Easy CV has no connection with Stelios and budget european airline, Easy Jet... although the orange logo looks strikingly familiar! This app lets you add your resume to Facebook. It links data from your Facebook Profile to your CV/Resume. It also has a variety of formats including PDF and video. Some of the instructions are in french.
Other apps include, Linkedin Contacts which draws content from your Linkedin profile to display in Facebook.
There's also Inside Job, which helps you connect with friendly people working at US companies you'd like to work for. (There's something similar in the UK called CAREERMOLE - but it doesn't yet have a Facebook app.)
These are of course only a small selection of the huge number of applications people are developing for Facebook. Many job boards also have apps which stream matching vacancies to a user's homepage. This is valuable because for many people Facebook is their starting point on the internet - so if you want your content to be easily accessible you need to bring it to your audience using tools like Facebook applications.
