Facebook Tests New Job Postings Feature For Page Administrators

[engine]

This could be interesting. Could it mean breathing new life into Pages?

Facebook might muscle-in on LinkedIn’s recruiting business with ways for business Pages to promote job listings. The new Jobs features could give companies another reason to drive traffic to their Facebook Page beyond marketing their products in the News Feed, while also allowing them to pay the social network to get their open position in front of more candidates. Facebook Test New Job Postings Feature For Page Administrators [techcrunch.com]

[topr8]

so ...

Pretty much everyone has a Facebook profile, which are often filled with extensive information about their past jobs titles, employers, education and interests. Recruiters can target job posting ads with all this data so they reach people with the right credentials

this from the company that made such a LOUD fuss about NOT allowing a UK insurance company to use facebook to 'profile' users!

of course i understand that an unsolicited job offer is completely different from an insurance quote. but it makes me wonder if profiling is ok for some to do but not for others?

... just to be clear: personally i think profiling is absolutely fine and actually a good thing (after all you don't have to give all your data away to third parties, so you always have an opt out, just don't give all your personal data away) and is generally a way to better service and potentially lower prices.

[keyplyr]

Some are not actual job openings at all, just company ads pretending to need workers, taking advantage of the new timeline positioning.