We see early examples of this, from catching fraud in financial transactions, to debugging and improving the hiring process in HR: and almost everybody already pays attention to the massive flow of social network information concerning them.

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Rather than focus on making goal-setting a dynamic, business-centric process, it became an HR compliance program.

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In most companies, the HR function has guidelines for how this process should unfold.

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Similarly, managers are also scratching their heads at a financial services business where the new HR approach puts responsibility for the hiring process on them.

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In most cases they jump to address the obvious areas of combining payroll, HR policies, IT in terms of methods and process.

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According to a recent report in Business News Daily, 80 percent of surveyed HR professionals use social network sites in their hiring process.

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