Use Facebook’s new Social Jobs app to find work - robbfarome

Looking a job? Now you can leverage one of the sites that you use the nearly, Facebook, to supporte in your hunt.

Facebook along Wednesday rolled out its long-anticipated Social Jobs app for U.S. users, which has aggregated more than 1.7 million job listings from job search sites that were already using Facebook to get to recruits, including Jobvite, BranchOut, Work4Labs, and Monster.com.

Searching for a job happening Facebook's Gregarious Jobs app.

The social network first declared plans for a jobs app final stage October A a joint venture with the Grind Department. The two launched the Social Jobs Partnership, a grouping that includes the Political entity Association of Colleges and Employers, the General Association of State Workforce Agencies, and the Direct Employers Association.

U.S. Secretary of Undertaking Hilda Solis in a statement said "the foundation of an industry-hanging ASCII text file job-mailing schema" is "serving America experience cover to work."

The national unemployment plac in October dipped below 8 percent for the first time since January 2009.

Facebook says the app is a natural advancement in social networking. NACE enquiry indicates that 50 percent of employers already consumption Facebook to find new hires. Those employers said potential recruits can buoy better use Facebook to find jobs by liking company pages and networking with contacts.

"Facebook is all about copulative people, and we're thrilled to visualize developers leveraging our platform to connect job seekers and prospective employers," Marne Levine, Facebook's frailty president for globular public insurance, said in a statement. "By allowing job seekers to look at and share job openings based on individualized criteria, like location and industry, the Social Jobs Application builds on our broader effort to avail multitude manipulation interpersonal media to find jobs in the U.S."

LinkedIn competitor?

It's unclear whether Facebook intends to work up competition with professional networking internet site LinkedIn, which has 175 million users compared to Facebook's 1 billion. LinkedIn offers paid accounts for both chore hunters and recruiters. For now, Facebook's jobs app serves as a mart of other sites' listings.

LinkedIn recently revamped its user profiles to make the site more visually appealing in an campaign to compete with other gregarious networks.