Jobtonic First to Exploit Facebook for Recruitment

Released on = July 25, 2007, 3:40 am

Press Release Author = JobTonic

Industry = Human Resources

Press Release Summary = First recruitment site to have UK jobs on the popular Social
Networking site

Press Release Body = Edinburgh July 24, 2007 -on allows users to view jobs and make
referrals with the chance of being rewarded with up to £2,200. The refer-o-matic
application is free to use and available to all users, Jobtonic passes on a finder\'s
fee reward to successful referrers.

Jobtonic\'s refer-o-matic intelligently reads the user\'s Facebook profile in order to
display jobs most relevant to their location. It gives the growing number of
Jobtonic referrers quick and easy access to the latest job vacancies via an
application button always present on the left hand side of their profile. The
application can easily be added to a Facebook profile with just a few clicks in less
than two minutes.

Facebook boasts over 24 million active users worldwide and has been receiving
100,000 new registrations daily since January 2007. With well over 1,000 jobs now
available across the UK on Jobtonic with rewards of up to £2,200 up for grabs, there
has never been a better time for social networking fans to monetise their networks.

Nick Goldstein, GM, Jobtonic enthused \"Facebook is the social networking site of
choice for those looking to keep in touch with friends and past colleagues. By
embedding our job vacancies on the site with this application, we ensure that our
users have easy access to them giving them more opportunities to refer jobs to
friends and make some money if their friends take the job.\"
For interview opportunities with Nick Goldstein on the impact Web 2.0 is having on
recruitment or any further information, please contact us. Take refer-o-matic for a
test drive today by logging into Facebook and searching for \'Jobtonic\' in the search
box. Visit the Jobtonic website to perform a job search and refer jobs to friends
today.

About Jobtonic.com
The Jobtonic process:
- find a job vacancy that suits a friend
- email it to them using Jobtonic\'s referral system
- if they\'re successful, you get rewarded
Jobtonic is the UK \'s first website to reward individuals for matching candidates
with positions. Jobtonic allows forward-looking employers to directly target passive
candidates, considered the holy grail of recruitment. In March 2007 the site was the
first in the UK to reward a successful referral hire.

Press contact
Alasdair Bailey
phone: +44 (0) 131 220 1313
web: http://www.jobtonic.com

Web Site = http://www.jobtonic.com

Contact Details = Press contact
Alasdair Bailey
phone: +44 (0) 131 220 1313
web: http://www.jobtonic.com

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