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Social Networks: The Newest Employee Engagement Tool?

HR professionals are becoming acquainted with social networks, such as MySpace, for the information they may reveal about job candidates—and not necessarily positive information at that. These networks can have a positive role to play in managing employees once you’ve hired them, though.

Provide new employees with work-geared social networking tools and you can improve recruitment, training, and retention, according to some experts who are experimenting with doing just that. …