BranchOut Brings Career Networking to Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- BranchOut (www.branchout.com) today launched a Facebook application that transforms a Facebook friend list into a powerful career experience. Now, for the first time, people can browse their friends' employers, discover new connections and find business opportunities, all without ever leaving Facebook.

"The gap between Facebook users' personal and professional lives is narrowing. BranchOut recognizes this movement and revolutionizes the way people approach career networking online," said Rick Marini, founder and CEO of BranchOut. "Instead of trying to fit various career sites like LinkedIn into their daily routine, job seekers, sales professionals and career networkers can instantly discover connections and new opportunities through their existing friend network on Facebook. BranchOut integrates professional and social needs seamlessly within a community 500 million people strong."

BranchOut Features:

Search: BranchOut allows users to search through their Facebook network by company name, quickly and easily displaying their friends' current and previous employers.

Discover: BranchOut expands the ability to find connections through friends-of-friends, identifying Facebook friends and fellow BranchOut users who have friends at the user's companies of interest. Users maintain control, acting as a gatekeeper in making introductions to friends-of-friends.

Browse: In addition to search, BranchOut users can use the browse feature, allowing them to quickly scroll through a full list of their friends' employment history. It's quick, it's powerful, and it's surprisingly fun.

Profile: BranchOut users have their own profile, showcasing their job history, education, number of friends, friends of friends, and companies in their network.  

Job Posts: Got an opening at your company and want to spread the word? BranchOut enables users to upload job openings that can be viewed by their network, potentially leading to lucrative referral bonuses while helping friends.

BranchOut was founded by social media pioneer Rick Marini. Marini was the co-founder of Tickle.com, one of the largest social media sites on the Internet at the time it was sold to Monster Worldwide for more than $100 million dollars. Rick is also the founder and CEO of SuperFan and previously an executive at Monster Worldwide.

BranchOut is a free application and is available at http://apps.facebook.com/branchout and www.branchout.com.  

SOURCE BranchOut