Facebook
might compete with linked in with its new job offering feature. It has been reported,
on Monday, Facebook Inc. was testing a feature that would let a page administrator
upload job hunting posts and receive an application from candidates on Facebook.
We all know that LinkedIn generates
most of its revenue from job seekers and hunters,
and so this would be a great opportunity for Facebook to increase its revenue
by introducing this lucrative
feature to their social networking site.
A company spokesman told Reuters. "Based
on behavior we've seen on Facebook, where
many small businesses post about their job openings on their Page, we're running
a test for Page admins to create job postings and receive applications from
candidates,"
This new introduction to Facebook might be little troublesome
for the developers such as Workable and Job score and Work4,
which concentrate in building job
application forms that associations can select to insert into their Facebook pages.
Certainly,
this feature is going to push Facebook into direct competition with LinkedIn. This Facebook move can be extremely inspiring for the career making platform,
which is still lagging regarding active users. These platforms have just 467
million members in contrast with Facebook's 1.79 billion.
TechCrunch
said, “With Facebook's jobs features, companies could drive more traffic to
their Facebook pages while allowing them to pay the social network to get their
job openings in front of more candidates.”
In October, Facebook launched Marketplace to allow people to buy and
sell items locally as the social media network tries new ways to keep its users.
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