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Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by dalbasal »

JimDabell wrote: post #109
dalbasal wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well... One thing job sites are very hesitant to do is qa. Jobs that aren't jobs. Listings without salary brackets. Where I live (Dublin) most jobs on job boards don't even mention the company name. This is because they're posted by recruiters that way, to avoid being routed around or tipping off the competition. Often the job doesn't exist, they're just resume fishing. LinkedIn has similar issues. I think there's ha…

I agree with everything you say, but I also think that it's incredibly unlikely Facebook will curate jobs any more than they do the rest of the content in Facebook. You're right about the opportunity to improve recruitment in these aspects, but it's not going to be Facebook that does it.

oh yeah. I'd rather FB don't dominate another niche, so the worse they do the better.

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by propman »

I'm fairly anti-Facebook but this is actually a great idea. A big reason for unemployment is the inefficiencies it takes to take all the steps from motivating yourself in finding a job to getting hired. A lot of unemployed sometimes need a kick in the butt because it's hard to constantly be on the lookout for opportunities (been there), so this partly eliminates the first step of making the decision to get you stuff together and look for jobs by making it come directly to you. Good job Facebook!

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by Balgair »

dalbasal wrote: post #101
Flammy wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Maybe it will end up creepy and full of unforeseen consequences The first thing I thought of when reading this article was "I wonder how many Herbalife 'jobs' in disguise will end up on here..."

Well... One thing job sites are very hesitant to do is qa. Jobs that aren't jobs. Listings without salary brackets. Where I live (Dublin) most jobs on job boards don't even mention the company name. This is because they're posted by recruiters that way, to avoid being routed around or tipping off the competition. Often the job doesn't exist, they're just resume fishing. LinkedIn has similar issues. I think there's ha…

I've been on the hunt for a while and I'll echo these sentiments. Indeed, Zip, Monster, LinkedIn, most of them are just 'ghost' jobs. Maybe they already have an internal candidate, maybe they have had the posting up for 2 years, maybe they are recruiters that are just fishing idly. There's a million reasons, but they all end up being just a time suck and resume black-hole.

Look, I know: network. That's the way to get work. But I suck at networking. I don't feel that it's because I'm unsociable, it's that I don't know anyone that that is working at a place that is hiring. All my contacts are in my same boat of shitty jobs in a shitty area (biotech-denver)

Does anyone know how to break out into another region where you don't know anyone? How to do remote-networking?

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by russelluresti »

deftnerd wrote: post #14

No... Just no! Facebook crawls into every portion of our lives. I killed my account because of its insidious feature creep. You don't put up photos of yourself in a swimsuit at work and would sue any workplace that demanded that you show them those pictures. You shouldn't bring your political beliefs into work, and would be uncomfortable if your boss cornered you and demanded to know how you felt about the president…

This is my concern as well. Most people using LinkedIn use it in a way that keeps it devoid of political flame wars, pictures of you throwing up after a night of drinking, check-ins at the movies you're going to, etc. But Facebook is just rife with personal life information. I don't even use Facebook all that much, but I can guarantee that I wouldn't want to apply for a job using my FB profile.

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by quadrangle »

ssivark wrote: post #74
whatshisface wrote: post #4

There's some who argue that having all of your life in one place, recorded, won't be a problem because society will be forced to shift in a more liberal direction and stop judging people. The alternative outcome is that this forces a hard crystallization around various very specific cultures, where for every community there's a list of "weird stuff that everyone does," and "stuff that gets you ostracized." So for exa…

I wonder whether the whole idea of a single “authentic” identity to present to friends, family, colleagues, etc. is fundamentally flawed. Humans are social beings, and that necessitates a certain agreeableness, which implies fluid and context-dependent social identities for each person. Not doing so affects range and depth of experience, IMHO. In a bid to capture all aspects of your “true” identity (that too, for mar…

Wonder no more! The answer is: YES, the idea of a single "authentic" identity is fundamentally flawed. Cheers

Re: Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

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Post by dredmorbius »

acct1771 wrote: post #54
megaman22 wrote: post #15

Facebook is pivoting into becoming Craigslist.

Craigslist+ads, with a healthy dose of meme garbage to keep the plebs opening the tab.

Um. Craigslist is ads.

(There are, yes, parts of it which aren't. But ads are the prime motive.)

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