As just one of many spinoffs from MySpace—the original social networking website—the MySpace jobs site gives you access to millions of job seekers. While sometimes painted as a host site for nothing but shallow social exchanges, MySpace is in fact home to a large population of focused, creative entrepreneurs and potential employees that are waiting to hear about your company.

Finding employees isn't the only way to use the MySpace jobs site to your advantage. Here are a few of the other ways that you can make the MySpace jobs site work for you:

1. Scope out what the competition is offering to potential hires through MySpace jobs.

2. Create advertisements aimed at job seekers browsing the MySpace jobs site.

3. Find and connect with potential clients or business partners.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Let MySpace jobs help you form new connections

To make the fullest use of and extract the greatest benefits from the MySpace jobs site and services, including advertising and job posting, you're going to need to create a MySpace account for your business.

I recommend: Use the MySpace sign-up page to create a MySpace account for you (or your business), then surf on over to the MySpace jobs site to get a feel for how it works and what sort of competition you're facing.

Supply your own MySpace jobs information and make it pay

The MySpace jobs site gives you a chance to get your message in front of more than 80 million candidates; make sure to take full advantage of the job site's advertising potential.

I recommend: You have a couple of options for advertising through the MySpace jobs site. You can advertise directly on the MySpace end through the MySpace jobs advertising page, or you can set up recruitment advertising through Simply Hired, which is the company that maintains and provides MySpace's job listings.

Get your MySpace jobs out there

Odds are you're not looking to find MySpace jobs; you're looking to hire, right? So get your job in front of the 80 million potential hires and sub-contractors that MySpace and Simply Hired provide.

I recommend: After you've registered with MySpace and you've posted a job in the MySpace classifieds, you can edit, manage or remove it through the MySpace my classifieds page; be sure to keep it current as circumstances or job details change, and make sure to remove it once the position is filled.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  When you're posting to MySpace jobs, advice and comments from MySpace users indicate that creating a well-rounded business profile to give potential hires a good overview of your company is one of the best things you can do. Making lots of information available also will help to weed out potential employees that simply aren't suitable for your company, giving you more time to consider qualified applicants.