Is it absolutely crucial that an employment seeker make use of social networks in their job quest in this day and age? No. However, granted the financial atmosphere of the world, particularly the USA, one might say that you should attempt everything possible to get your resume abroad and widen your circle in order to get to all prospective employers. It is not at all mandatory though that one use a social network to find a job, as though it be the answer to all their employment misfortunes. It is as worthwhile and useless as a job fair or addressing your resume to everyone you know. The only need? to join social networking sites like LinkedIn, which sell themselves as the “hip” social networks for their particular slot in the market in social networking, may be to avoid being ostracized by your peers for not being a member of it. But then you’re only relenting to peer-pressure and not really meeting the requirements of economic or job-market pressure.

Having said that, there are plenty of merits to using social networking sites in your job hunt. To begin with, why wouldn’t you try to call attention to your resume in all places possible? Why wouldn’t you call on a job-fair if it promised raising your odds for a job even in the least? And why wouldn’t you send your resume to everyone you knew, in order to see who might be hiring? In the same way, why wouldn’t you sign up for a social network and use it to publicize your resume and advertise the fact that you are on the lookout for a job? There isn’t really any downside, as long as you are able to assertively sell yourself on that network. In the business world it’s all about “who you know”, and thanks to social networking sites, you can be in touch with to everyone conceivable in the business world. The list of people in your (network balloons immensely by joining such networks, and the successes speak for themselves as job hopefuls continue to attribute their employment to domains concentrating in business and job finding such as LinkedIn, Facebook and other Facebook clones. And besides, even the recruiters who still run conventional websites that advertise your resume are now using social network sites to couple employers to potential employees who match their needs. If the professionals can see some value in it, then you probably should be able to as well.