Rumor has it Facebook’s launching a jobs board

by John Dennehy

Accord­ing to a Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle Face­book plans on shortly launch­ing a jobs board. Is this a good thing? Yes.

Here’s why: refer­rals already account for some­where between 20 and 40% of all new com­pany hires. LinkedIn is great for recruiters find­ing can­di­dates but it doesn’t fun­da­men­tally change the refer­ral process. Peo­ple refer peo­ple they know and trust for jobs in their com­pa­nies. It’s a per­sonal thing. Face­book is per­fect for this.

We already have clients using Zartis for refer­rals in Face­book. It works. Really well. We recently blogged about Dommo, a Span­ish ad agency, using social media for refer­rals. The num­ber one source of can­di­dates was Face­book. You can see the info­graphic here.

When some­body posts a job rec­om­men­da­tion on Face­book it’s taken seri­ously, by the peo­ple that count, their friends.

Peo­ple are adding more and more pro­fes­sional related infor­ma­tion to their Face­book pro­files. A jobs board within the Face­book ecosys­tem opens the poten­tial for bet­ter match­ing algo­rithms which would inevitably be part of job post­ing service.

When do we click “Like”? Appar­ently we’ll see some­thing as early as next month. The only ques­tion now is will Twit­ter fol­low suit.