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Facebook Threatens LinkedIn With Job Opening Features (techcrunch.com)
Facebook is looking to compete with LinkedIn by allowing business Pages to promote job listings. "The new Jobs features could give companies another reason to drive traffic to their Facebook Page beyond marketing their products in the News feed, while also allowing them to pay the social network to get their open position in front of more candidates," reports TechCrunch. A Facebook spokesperson said, "Based on behavior we've seen on Facebook, where many small businesses post about their job openings on their Page, we're running a test for Page admins to create job postings and receive applications from candidates." TechCrunch adds: A new Facebook option in the status update composer allows Pages to formally share a job opening with related details like job title, salary, or if it's full-time vs part-time. The special formatting could differentiate job postings from other content and attract eyeballs amongst the crowded News Feed. These job postings will also show up in a Jobs tab of the Page, creating a dedicated landing place where companies can send job seekers. Businesses would get the added benefit of potentially gaining new followers whether or not someone inquires about the open position, compared to a relatively static Careers page on company's website. Job postings will include an "Apply Now" button that launches a standard job application flow, but pre-populated with information from a user's public profile. That could help people quickly apply for multiple jobs without typing in redundant information. Submitted applications will be received by the Page as a Facebook Message. Businesses will also be able to pay to show their News Feed job postings to more people, directly competing with some of LinkedIn's ad offerings. Facebook's opportunity here combines its ubiquitous reach, personal data, and engagement.
Lets give Farcebook even more personal data to mine and sell by uploading our resume to them. Hey what the hell, let's just use Farcebook to APPLY for jobs as well, so they can finally get our Social Security numbers and credit ratings as well!
But on the bright side, at least grandpa and grandma can get jobs working tier 1 helpdesk for Robert Half and earn a little extra income while spamming cat videos to their kids now!
Thus as it is has been inscribed in glowing green phosphor on Facebook since the dawn of the Age:
Stock doctor and witch broker at Database Corruption Incorporated
October 26, 1965 to present
Edit your work
Studied Database fuckery at Pimento University, Pimento CA
Past: Mianus Secondary School, Mianus CT
Lives in Norton, Vermont
From Archangel, Arkhangel'Skaya Oblast', Russia
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What kind of recruiters will I attract?
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BMO
I hope Facebook will learn from LinkedIn how to make a decent API. The Facebook APi is awful, almost as bad as the Twitter one.
I understand that when a company experiences explosive growth there is usually no time to design a perfect architecture, but some organizations like LinkedIn, Amazon and to some extent Google managed to do it. I guess Facebook is too busy spying on people.
The Facebook API is a tapestry of bad designs that are not even consistent across the various namespaces. The developer console looks like something that was designed by people who have never heard of UX principles, and the documentation is awful. I'd rather work with Yahoo CSV API than with Facebook "methods".
lucm, indeed.
I use facebook for non-business, non-work, non-professional reasons. I use Linked in for business, work and professional reasons.
I do not normally mix the two. The first being I don't want my boss or coworkers (with a couple of exceptions) knowing how I spend my weekends. Its none of their business.
Facebook is apparently trying to bring that separation between my private and work life. I won't participate in that. There are two many chances of something stupid being cross-posted between personal and professional sections of Facebook. Not going there.
Architectural plans are like computer source code with a couple of differences: You only compile once.
LinkedIn consists of people putting their best professional face forward. Facebook consists of people freely sharing their personal lives.
Mix them at your own peril.
Job postings will include an "Apply Now" button that launches a standard job application flow, but pre-populated with information from a user's public profile. That could help people quickly apply for multiple jobs without typing in redundant information.
That will probably deter some companies from posting jobs opening on Facebook: If applying is as easy as a click, you quickly get thousands of CVs and you wonder how you could even filter the stream to find interesting ones.
Linkedin is useful as a self updating list of email addresses for former colleagues who may be helpful as references or have job openings in the future. Fat better than the old fashioned way where you had to keep in contact or ask mutual friends for contact info
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
^^^ Pretty much this. Every time I even touch my profile, old friends and acquaintances come out of the woodwork asking me if I'd want to work with them again.
Task:
Find one person that isn't a consummate professional and passionate about their job."
Facebook should go for it. Linkedin is just turning into a Facebook for older people anyway. I see selfie picture posts, "Click 'like' if you agree" posts, even ran across this one, copied and modified from a similar FB shared post from a couple of months ago (on FB, it was a Harley-Davidson though): "A guy looked at the Corvette the other day and said I wonder how many people could have been fed for the cost of that car. I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families in Kentucky who built it..."
Most companies do. I get reference requests on former juniors every few months. I don't really understand it (I mean if they listed my name they know I'm going to give you a good review, otherwise they'd have given you someone else or lied), but a lot of companies put stock in them. Personally I only think they're useful if its a mutual acquaintance- if I know someone who worked with you I'd call them and trust the result. But many companies actually do call references, and some of those that don't will still ask for them.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
"Freely share the public version of their personal lives". Kind of like Clinton: one position for Goldman Sachs, another for the voting public.
It also seems to be a never-ending source for Keyword searches by lazy recruiters who never actually read the profiles, just like they never read our resumes. . .
What could possibly go wrong posting jobs on a social-interaction site where most posts need to be fact-checked? Given the current state of Facebook, there may be 1 real job for every 10,000 help-wanted Facebook postings. By the way, that noise you hear are the like-farmers and scammers cheering.
Every time I even touch my profile, old friends and acquaintances come out of the woodwork asking me if I'd want to work with them again.
There's an option to turn off the automatic broadcasts while updating your profile. Turn it off, make your changes, and turn it on. No one will know that you touched your profile. I have to do that since my boss is linked to my profile and she contacts me immediately if I make any changes to my profile.
Yes, please let all the stupid people associate their Facebook account with thousands of pics of them drunk off their ass with their job app so I can not hire them.
If they never test the system by actually asking, then people could trust listing your name even if you were likely to give a bad reference. They have to ask occasionally to keep people honest.