Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar LinkedIn

Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by meritt on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:13PM (#16485778)

> If they can get this right, this could end blue-collar unemployment.

Blue-collar unemployment isn't due to the lack of a sophisticated job search engine, it's due to not having enough jobs. Those jobs have been lost to process improvement and automation and they're not coming back.

They need training and education, not simply a blue-collar LinkedIn.

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Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by vinceguidry on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:21PM (#16487079)

I don't think there is any reason to not think that there's a lot of inefficiency in the job marketplace that a large tech service that literally their entire market uses couldn't vastly clear up.

What I'm more worried about is that Facebook will drop the ball.

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Re:Facebook rolls out job posts to become the blue-collar Li... by meritt on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:31PM (#16487191)

There's definitely inefficiency but I was replying to the notion that this would be a cure for blue-collar unemployment. It's not even going to make a dent.

The article itself shows a lot of screenshots which are specifically service jobs, also referred to as "pink-collar". Those are indeed rapidly on the rise and generally underrepresented in LinkedIn (https://poachedjobs.com is the go-to for food & drink) so I think it could be successful there.

But to suggest Facebook Jobs will be the panacea for blue-collar unemployment is sheer ignorance.

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