Standout Jobs

The blog, JOBMATCHBOX, is reporting that LinkedIn has created a Facebook application called “My Company’s Hiring.”

I’ve just found the application in Facebook and added it to my profile.

It’s extremely basic. And currently there are no direct ties with LinkedIn.

When adding a job through the My Company’s Hiring application in Facebook it looks like this:

I put in some very basic details to see what it would look like after. On your Facebook profile page it looks like this:

This is certainly an interesting move given the increased discussion of competition between Facebook and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn recently announced they were opening up APIs for developers, on the heels of Facebook’s booming success with the applications platform launch. And there’s also news of an impending LinkedIn IPO.

It makes sense for employees to help promote job openings at their companies. Assuming they like their jobs and the company they work for. And there’s no better place than a huge social network like Facebook. My feeling is that this is a first salvo by LinkedIn to capture some Facebook attention (within Facebook) and they’ll keep developing the application - specifically to create ties to LinkedIn directly, to draw people back.