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More companies are turning to social networks to recruit and vet potential employees, and Jobvite is offering a service to take advantage of this on Facebook and other sites including LinkedIn and Twitter. It gives employers a simple way to spread word of job openings through their own social networks and those of their employees.

Many companies have found social networks quite handy when they want to know more about a potential employee, but Jobvite is giving them a simple, organized and trackable method for actually finding those possible new hires.

One feature of the service allows businesses to send out emails to their employees, with a few levels of filtering to get word out to those employees that are most likely to have connections related to the available position. When employees receive the customized notice of an open position, they’ll be able to email the job to friends, post a link to the job on their wall or post it as a status update.

When emailing the job to Facebook friends, the Jobvite “Match for Jobs” tab filters recipients based on several criteria, including locality and profession. Those who receive ...