While U.S. lawmakers debate how to stimulate employment, Facebook developers have already created 182,000 jobs this year, adding almost $12.2 billion in wages and benefits to the economy.

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Would-be competitors to LinkedIn continue to launch Facebook applications, and the latest such entry comes from SmartRecruiters.

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Facebook just keeps poaching Googlers left and right.  The latest is Tom Stocky, who reported for his first day on the job today.

Stocky, who maintains a personal blog site had this to say about his latest employment coup:

I work at Facebook, where I serve as a director of product. Previously, I was a director of product management at Google, where I helped start the developer products team and also worked at different times on search, client, and travel products. (Though if you ask my mom, the best thing I ever did there was this blog post.)

He holds degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its Slaon School of Business, had joined Google in 2005.

Facebook has quite a number of product directors and is rumored to be putting renewed focus into developer relations.

The hiring wars between Google and Facebook have proven extremely lucrative for the employees involved, with considerable signing or retention agreements. Last year Google gave its employees a 10 percent raise to attract potential hires and preempt defections.  The company reportedly also has more than 23,000 employees and with 2,076 job openings it is currently adding about 100 hires per week.  Facebook on the other hand has fewer employees than Google has openings.

Facebook’s ambitious expansion plans just underscores the rivalry between the social networking company and Google.

Recent hires who’ve moved from Google to Facebook include the social network’s:

• Director of Corporate Development Amin Zoufonoun
• Director of Latin American Sales Alexandre Hohagen
• Vice President of Advertising and Global Operations David Fischer
• Global Brand Experience Manager Paul Adams
• Head of Mobile Products, Erick Tseng

Readers, do you think Facebook is winning the recruitment war — or will the tides turn with the growth of Google Plus?

If you’re still not using any of the privacy settings on Facebook, here’s the most compelling reason why you need to change that as soon as possible.
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Facebook has hired former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart to become vice president of corporate communications.

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Facebook has had the strongest pull in recruitment of top technology talent for some time now, and now we’ve got an infographic quantifying the extent to which the social network is out-recruiting the competition.
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Facebook not only changed the social web, but recreated a profession.
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The business development executive terminated on allegations of insider trading in Facebook shares will join Twitter.
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Earlier this week an episode of “MTV Diaries” focused exclusively on Facebook, the company. In addition to providing insight about the company, the show’s one of the best recruiting promotions I’ve ever seen.
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Facebook has been poaching one Googler after another. The latest is  Ji Lee, the creative director at Google Creative Labs, who will now become the creative director at the social network.

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