Your subsequent job may come from Fb Market

At any time when I consider Facebook, I see it as a platform for connecting with family and friends, and a supply for nice native offers by means of Marketplace. I’ve by no means considered it as a spot to discover a job, since platforms like LinkedIn, Certainly, and Glassdoor serve that function, however it seems Meta needs to vary that notion.

In an try to make Fb extra engaging 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 folks discover native jobs, with an emphasis on entry-level positions, and jobs within the trades and repair sectors.

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

Now you can discover couches and jobs by means of Fb Market

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

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 Sure, the identical place you possibly can go to search out an incredible deal on a sofa or promote your outdated bike.

When you’re in Market, you may see a brand new class on the prime of the display screen known as Jobs, and whenever you press that, it’s going to deliver up all of the native listings for jobs in your space which you could scroll by means of. From there, you possibly can kind job listings by class, distance, and job sort. To search out and seek for jobs on Fb, you may must be an grownup aged 18 years or older and be situated within the US.

In case you discover a place you are occupied with, you possibly can faucet on it to see the job description, the speed of pay the employer gives, whether or not it is full-time or part-time, and the place the enterprise is situated. Most significantly, you can attain out to them straight by way of 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 international locations, after which scaled again to only the US and Canada once more in 2022, and was in the end scrapped altogether in 2023 (by way of TechCrunch).

Meta did not go into any element on why it instantly determined now was the time to deliver 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 area people.” If I needed to guess why Meta determined to deliver 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 faculty college students or latest graduates is perhaps looking for work. It may also be to place Fb as a extra approachable different 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 mentioned but if it has plans to roll it out to extra international locations once more sooner or later.