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Facebook today launched an jobs board application, featuring 1.7 million listings from five different recruiting organizations.
The new application, a product of the Social Jobs Partnership that Facebook started last year with several public agencies, aggregates jobs that are already available through the separate organizations to give job seekers a central location to look for work.
This initial slew of jobs -- sorted by industry, location and skills -- come from BranchOut, DirectEmployers Association, Work4Labs, Jobvite and Monster.com.
"Today's launch of the Social Jobs Application highlights what we've known all along -- that both recruiters and job seekers benefit when jobs are posted where candidates spend their time, and research overwhelmingly tells us that this is on Facebook," Stéphane Le Viet, CEO of Work4Labs, said in a press release. "Undoubtedly, there will be an acceleration of the shift to social media as the primary channel to find a job with the extraordinary push of this consortium. We are fully committed to making the Social Jobs Application on Facebook the b... [Read more]
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