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Every time I consider Facebook, I see it as a platform for connecting with family and friends, and a supply for nice native offers via Marketplace. I’ve by no means seen it as a spot to discover a job, since platforms like LinkedIn, Certainly, and Glassdoor serve that objective, but it surely seems Meta desires to alter that notion.

In an try and make Fb extra enticing to job hunters, the social media big has introduced that it’s bringing job listings again for US customers, after eradicating them three years in the past. This time round, nevertheless, Meta is specializing in Fb serving to individuals discover native jobs, with an emphasis on entry-level positions, and jobs within the trades and repair sectors.

“Beginning at this time, we’re bringing jobs on Fb again, making it simpler for individuals within the US to seek out and inquire about native jobs. We have at all times been about connecting with individuals, whether or not via shared pursuits or key life occasions,” Meta defined in a Facebook blog post. “Now, in the event you’re searching for entry-level, commerce, and repair business employment in your neighborhood, Fb might help you join with native individuals and small companies who’re hiring.”

Now you can discover couches and jobs via Fb Market

Job listings can be found to all Fb customers within the US who’re over 18

In the event you’re inquisitive about how Fb’s return of job listings works, you’ll discover all of the native listings in your space within the Market tab. Sure, the identical place you possibly can go to seek out an ideal deal on a sofa or promote your outdated bike.

When you’re in Market, you will see a brand new class on the prime of the display screen known as Jobs, and once you press that, it’ll convey up all of the native listings for jobs in your space that you would be able to scroll via. From there, you possibly can kind job listings by class, distance, and job kind. To seek out and seek for jobs on Fb, you will have to be an grownup aged 18 years or older and be situated within the US.

In the event you discover a place you are excited about, you possibly can faucet on it to see the job description, the speed of pay the employer presents, whether or not it is full-time or part-time, and the place the enterprise is situated. Most significantly, you’ll attain out to them immediately through Fb Messenger to inquire concerning the place and apply.

As I discussed earlier, this is not Fb’s first rodeo with a job listings characteristic. In 2017, it launched job listings on the platform within the US and Canada. It then expanded to over 40 nations, after which scaled again to simply the US and Canada once more in 2022, and was finally scrapped altogether in 2023 (through TechCrunch).

Meta did not go into any element on why it all of the sudden determined now was the time to convey job listings again to Fb, apart from saying, “We wish to make it simple so that you can discover native jobs and join along with your local people.” If I needed to guess why Meta determined to convey them again, it is in all probability to draw a youthful viewers to Fb, because it highlights entry-level positions and jobs in expert trades, the place school college students or latest graduates is likely to be trying to find work. It may additionally be to place Fb as a extra approachable various to LinkedIn, which normally focuses extra on higher-skilled roles with very particular necessities.

Job listings are rolling out now on Fb for US customers. Meta hasn’t stated but if it has plans to roll it out to extra nations once more sooner or later.