Facebook has received 250,000 resumes from potential employees (per year)

Facebook, the world’s largest social network, has received over the last year 250,000 applications for employment from potential employees.

Creator of the other sotsseti Mashable Ben Perry (Ben Parr) shared his experience about trying to find a job in Facebook. According to him, he is interviewed in 2008 to Thomas Arnold, who is the head of the department of employment.

Facebook has received 250,000 resumes from potential employees (per year)

Arnold noted that staff Facebook is growing ever since they moved into a large office and attracted two billion dollars from investors. Sotsseti the representative noted that the emphasis in hiring company pays technicians, programmers and product managers. In this case there are vacancies in the departments of communications, personnel management, marketing, online operations, business development, IT-departments and design.

As told Perry, Facebook first potential employee is interviewed by telephone, during which he interrogated about previous jobs and that he created and what successes achieved. As the result may be a second interview. In the case of successful completion of these two steps, he was invited to the headquarters in Silicon Valley for a meeting with a potential boss and other team members. This interview was conducted to identify the necessary skills and determine whether the proposed post. After that, the group makes a collective decision about the suitability of candidature for the post.

Perry stressed that Facebook valued independent employees who do not need constant supervision and have enough self-motivation. The specialists who wish to create their own projects and applications that are in great demand in the team social networks. The author offers a unique and innovative ways of solutions will also attract the attention of Facebook.

“Father” Mashable also drew attention to the fact that the applicant must not only understand their work, but also to understand the vision of the company as a whole, not to mention the fact that the applicant must be an active user of social networks. Arnold said that to them often come to applicants who have not used your account to Facebook a few weeks or even months. In this case, Perry said “big plus” to this fact, even if the person has failed to become part of Facebook.

Audience Facebook, valued at $ 65 billion, more than 600 million users. According SocialBalkers, in 2010, every second of Facebook were recorded in average 7.9 new users.