Here is our weekly feature in which we share the top articles we enjoyed from the past week about recruitment marketing, social recruiting and anything else in the recruiting space. This week we’ll be talking about forecasts for HR Technology, 50 best places to work, hiring failed business owners, gamification in recruiting and Facebook Timeline and how to get better in Twitter.

Here are the articles our that interested us this week (in no particular order), enjoy!:

HR Carnival: Forecast Edition by John Sumser (@JohnSumser)

It’s that time of the year to begin forecasting trends in the HR Technology space.  John puts together a great summary of forecasts from some of the industry’s best.  Also check out his trends.

Top 50 Best Places to Work – 2012 Employee Choice Awards

Best Places to Work 2012 by Glassdoor (@Glassdoordotcom)

Nice list of the best companies to work for as decided by Glassdoor users.

Why you should hire failed business owners by RJ Morris (@RJ_Morris)

Nice article on concentrating on strengths instead of weaknesses for candidates that have had businesses failed.

Gaming Related Company Using Games in Recruiting by Todd Raphael (@ToddRaphael)

Nice example of using gamification to attract and screen candidates in the apply process.

Facebook Timeline launches by Facebook

This is just very cool and as @RecruitMoore and @TalentMinded pointed out could have some great implications in terms of branding pages.

How to be awesome on Twitter by Marta Majewska (@Princess_Misia)

Really good presentation for anyone that wants to get better at using Twitter.

Hope you enjoy the list.  If you have any articles I should add to the list feel free to add them to the comments or send me an email at chris@smashfly.com or follow us on Twitter @smashfly.