Companies that have used BranchOut include Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce, VMWare, Pfizer and State Farm.
And yes, BranchOut will highlight your connections as well as those of your friends.
BranchOut also has 3 million job listings that people can search through and apply for.
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BranchOut launched in August 2010 and has grown rapidly to over 817, 000 users as of June 2011.
There are also links from the app page to several job search sites like BranchOut and Monster.
Current portfolio compnaies include: Appcelerator, Branchout, Couchbase, Gigya, Marketo, Solarcity and StorSimple.
BranchOut also recently released a new recruiting tool that runs on Facebook.
The networks of employees provide a vast resource of potential recruits, says Chris Merritt, vice president of sales at BranchOut.
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BranchOut, the professional jobs network that runs on top of Facebook, announced that it has reached 300 million profiles in its network.
Social job search start-up BranchOut has launched a new product to enable recruiters to search and find job candidates through Facebook.
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At the same time, LinkedIn is somewhat complementary to BranchOut, Merritt says, because the two sites often reach different groups of people.
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Rick Marini, chief executive of the professional-networking app "BranchOut, " said that more than 20 million people have signed up for the app.
BranchOut is building a career-related social network based on members' Facebook profiles.
That lets "BranchOut" tout that it has more than 400 million profiles.
But Merritt says BranchOut is different because BranchOut enables people to search their close personal connections who are more likely on Facebook rather than LinkedIn.
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In just the last two months, BranchOut added 50 million profiles.
We also heard from BranchOut, a job creator linked to Facebook.
People can use BranchOut to search for jobs and see which of their friends have a connection at a prospective company to help them get hired.
Marini says that recruiters use LinkedIn and Facebook as complementary tools, using LinkedIn to find people outside of Facebook and Branchout to contact people in Facebook.
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In addition to the just launched job tabs within Facebook, BranchOut plans to this summer launch enhanced search and contact features for recruiters to find job seekers.
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BranchOut already has a service for job seekers to post their resumes on the BranchOut Facebook app and apply to jobs that companies post through the service.
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Prospective employers can list vacancies by industry, location, and skill, and there's already a bunch of recruitment sites on board, including BranchOut, DirectEmployers Association, Work4Labs, Jobvite and Monster.com.
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Companies such as Facebook-based job search company Branchout, daily deals aggregator Yipit and car-sharing company Getaround are among those that have raised funding through the site.
But Rick Marini, founder and CEO of BranchOut, says BranchOut enables companies to reach a broader audience: close to 700 million people on Facebook versus about 100 million on LinkedIn.
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BranchOut, a start-up launched last year which mostly deals with less exalted jobs, is trying to do something similar, using people's networks of friends on Facebook to fill the jobs it lists.
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BranchOut is an application within Facebook that enables people to create a professional profile and use their Facebook network to do things like find which of their friends work at a company where they want to apply for a job.
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And here is where most companies struggle with the plethora of choices available today inthe domain of social media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Quora, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and the new kids on the block, BranchOut and Google Plus, to name just a few.
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