Watch out, LinkedIn.

Facebook launched a new Social Jobs application on Wednesday in partnership with the Department of Labor and several leading career websites, including Monster.com, BranchOut and Jobvite.

The job board is intended to “leverage social media to connect great jobs with great candidates,” Facebook said in a statement announcing the Social Jobs app. There are currently more than 1.7 million job listings featured in the Facebook app.

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The app itself is fairly straightforward to use. Job hunters can search for a job by keyword, industry and location, and sift through the results that are pulled from each of the partner career websites. There is also an option to pull up veteran-friendly job results.

Facebook released a Social Jobs hub a year ago, which provided educational content and tools for job hunters from the Department of Labor, the National Association of Colleges and Employers and other organizations that partnered with the social network on the initiative. Some speculated at the time that this would pave the way for Facebook to launch a proper job board.

There’s no doubt that Facebook could leverage these partnerships with job sites and its massive user base of more than one billion to create a powerful job listings service. The bigger question though is whether it poses a threat to LinkedIn as a recruiting engine, which is where LinkedIn makes most of its money. LinkedIn has spent years building up relationships with headhunters and providing them with premium tools to scout for talent on the social network. To compete on that front, Facebook would need to do more than just aggregate listings from other job sites.

Still, as Facebook points out in its announcement, one study has found that half of employers already use Facebook in the hiring process, so there’s certainly potential.

LinkedIn investors clearly think there’s cause for concern. The company’s stock dipped immediately after Facebook announced the news, and was down more than 2% on the day as of publication.

true talk bro

Maybe it will get to Nigeria soon.

Great.

Nice one.

Love this...Mark Zuckerberg u'r really doing well...Keep on d good work bro..Hope Nigerians will benefit from this...

Quite innovative

Zuckerburg and his team are working hard to make sure Facebook stays ontop of its game by introducing packages that are in line with the trend, don't be suprised if they should introduce issues like 'TRENDING TOPICS, MAPS' e.t.c these are the things keeping sites like Twitter, Google and Yahoo up. Goodluck in their efforts, let in the competition!

Gud work Mark. More G4 to ur belle8-)

Space reserved for red mosquito..... Hades and minion

Twitter wil come out wit somtin soon. Keep d competition hot!

Okay

Good job @Mark

9ice!

[quote author=akay_47]Zuckerburg and his team are working hard to make sure Facebook stays ontop of its game by introducing packages that are in line with the trend, don't be suprised if they should introduce issues like 'TRENDING TOPICS, MAPS' e.t.c these are the things keeping sites like Twitter, Google and Yahoo up. Goodluck in their efforts, let in the competition!.......Nd Jonathan 2...to dea efforts...

Facebook! Mark and Co, weldone

Lmao...ok then, Goodluck Jonathan to their efforts!

mekaboy: AND WHAT INNOVATIONS DO NIGERIA PRODUCE? WHILE OTHERS ARE WORKING WITH THE SAME INTERNET AND COMPUTER, SOLVING PROBLEMS FOR THE WORLD, PEOPLE USE THE SAME INTERNET AND COMPUTER FOR TRIBAL WAR ONLINE.

Are you just wondering aloud or just flogging yourself in public? What have you done for naija lately na?

mayoroflag:

Are you just wondering aloud or just flogging yourself in public? What have you done for naija lately na?

Ha, help me ask him oo...