Will Facebook Places screw social recruiting?

 

It seems everything social wants to add your location these days.Some people seem to be fine with this whereas others don't. But, I think it could have quite a significant impact on recruitment. Or will it?

Oh no it won't!

Of course people who use the various social sites know all about the locational aspects and have their privacy settings fully locked down. They are hardly going to publicise they have gone for an interview are they now? So, recruitment will not be impacted at all. Any opportunities of using these sites/apps as part of your social recruiting strategy is still as sound as a pound (not great then!).

Oh yes it will!

People are confused with the locational idea. Social sites are defaulting ON sharing of your location as it adds value to their advertising proposition. Harmless tweets will give away your location regardless of tweet content. People will inadvertently show what they are doing, where they are going etc. So we will see more and more resistance against Likes for Career Pages, following of Twitter jobs accounts etc. All we need now is for Linkedin to add location to your updates and we are well and truly screwed.

Two views, too early to say?

Of course none of us really knows but social aside, getting time off for an interview can't be that easy so the last thing you would want to do is let your boss know about it in advance. I don't think it will necessarily kill off recruitment but I do think we are going to have to take this into consideration as I do genuinely believe the average Facebooker (for example) hasn't got much idea of how to get their privacy settings right.

Just raising this at the moment as I think it will be a bit of an ongoing debate.