More than anything else at the moment, that cunning devil Social Media is splitting our community right down the middle. According to a recent Manpower survey of HR nationwide, about half of respondents grumpily believe that social networking can’t help their organisations in any way whatsoever.

Others see in social media a glittering future for recruitment and stakeholder communications. 11% perceive it as useful to brand building and 7% admit to using it for sneakily checking up on candidates. Manpower themselves warn of the dangers of launching into the social networking world without first establishing clear objectives. But which helpful soul’s going to help you to work those out?

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American software boffins have developed a new application designed to help the way organisations ‘share, discuss and collaborate on new ideas’. Going by the name of Kindling, it’s effectively a forum for individuals to submit ideas, vote on their advisability and even volunteer for their implementation.
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US niche job site network jobhill.com is looking to divest its humongous portfolio of career-related web addresses - in a bidding process that starts at a recession-taunting $1.4 million.

So if you’ve got a lump of investment capital knocking around you don’t know what to do with, then prestigious addresses such as justsummerjobs.com, sascareers.com and the delightful smilejobs.com could soon be yours.

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And so what started out as a economic blip is now, officially, a recession. All news is bad news, it would appear, and every day brings fresh news of organisations that are down-sizing or - even worse - tumbling into administration. (One might be forgiven for thinking the only robust employer at the moment is Deloitte.) So how should recruiters occupy themselves during these troubling times? We might not have all the answers, but we have put together a free guide with some sound ideas.

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As a recent report in The Guardian states, nervous employees are brushing up their contacts in preparation for possible job hunts as the recession finally becomes formal and stretches its evil tentacles across the globe. Uber-networking site LinkedIn has consequently seen membership rise to around 30 million, with one brand-spanking new member being added every two seconds during 2008. But what exactly can LinkedIn do for recruiters, and how will the service develop?

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