The annual increases in the cost of employee benefits is one of the biggest challenges facing comp and benefits managers like me. We have taken alot of steps including increasing the employee-paid portion of the premium, increasing copays, implementing prescription drug formularies, and introducing flexible spending accounts. These things have helped, but we do seem to be running out of options!

I have had managers who did this kind of search on google and found information on a candidate that was posted on MySpace. I think you have to be very careful about using that information. It may be very old and posted when the individual was in school, or it could have been posted by someone else. I'm not sure it is a good idea to use this type of search in hiring , but I'd be curious to know what others have to say about it.