Works Thoughts About
Facebook's vision
Jobs aims to let businesses of all sizes find and hire the right people.
Overview
Stakeholders
Room for improvement?
Solutions
- Job posting and application management at one go
- Direct communication between applicants and the HR
- Integration with HR solution providers: applicant tracking systems, ATS, etc
- Companies
- small businesses
- non-profit
- mid to large size companies
- Applicants
- new grad looking for full time jobs ← our focus today! the initial jump is tough for everyone, especially during the covid time when many companies downsized or decided on a hiring freeze :')
- experience hires
- moms, or anyone who took time off and wants to return to work
- side/part time job searchers
- Sophia, a new engineering grad, is frustrated as job search process is emotionally draining and she does not know if she is learning the right skills for the job
- Kate, a new business grad, finds it difficult to connect with people who are working at the company of her interest
- Nell, a compsci grad, struggles with finding which industry or position she wants to go for
- Friends you may know at the company
- People can click on FB profile and DM
- Must have acquired the confirmation of the person to be contacted before display
- tradeoff: might give disadvantage to applicants who do not have many friends
- Advisor feature
- For each job posting, companies have representatives who are FB users to answer questions via FB as moderators of FB groups
- groups are alive as long as postings are there
- Hosts info sessions on messenger rooms or audio rooms
- Users can post questions and leave comments
- helps business identify the right match through the exchange of conversation
- tradeoff: depending on how popular the posting is, allocating the right number of representatives could be an issue. Applicants spamming or messaging inappropriate materials
- Mutual support groups among applicants
- If select yes, applicants become part of a FB group of the applicant pool for the job posting
- Use FB's social graph to find someone in my shoes, prepare interview togethers with messenger videos, and give emotional support to each other
- Strengthen the overall applicant pool's ability and skills, ideal for the hiring company as well
- tradeoff: competitive environment, so moderation is a must. Rely heavily on the applicants' proactivity and participation