Many people use social networking sites to remain in touch with their friends and family, or to find new friends. Jibe, a New York based start-up in collaboration with Facebook will help people yield more out of their social network. Your facebook profile will now help you find jobs.
Using this facility is very simple like a child’s play. User has to just connect his information about education and work history from his Facebook or Linkedin profile to build a new profile on Jibe. After preparing your profile you can start your search for your dream job in the companies and industries of your interest. You can also see which friend or friend of your friend, is working in which company.
This helps you in getting more relevant and crucial information about the job, work environment, salaries, H.R. policies, system of performance appraisal and lot more inside stuff.
The facts that provides Jibe an edge over other recruitment portals are:-
- Lesser number of repetitions. Popular job portals like Craiglist and Monster.com are filled with many duplicate postings and have a high volume of applicants for each listing.
- Jibe is initiated to help fresh graduates fill entry level positions. Others like TheLadders, target people in search of executive positions and six-figure salaries. These openings are not very large in numbers.
Thus it provides more job openings than any other portal.
In the words of Joe Essenfeld, co-founder and chief executive of the company-
“We want to help entry-level job seekers find their first job and get recommendations, which is something you don’t learn in college.”
“We’re targeting white-collar companies in cities looking for entry-level candidates in finance, health care and marketing.”
Jibe will provide the hiring company/companies a small pool of qualified applicants for entry-level positions. As an ex recruiter Mr. Essenfield quotes that it is easier to search right candidate in a small pool as compared to searching in a bigger pool. Another major benefit for a recruiter is that they will be able to see candidate’s profile on facebook and will have a better idea of his upbringing, co curricular activities, personal traits and if possible the family background. To add to privacy of the facebook user all the contents of the profile to be displayed to employers will be pre-approved by the user.
In short, vital information can be checked in preliminary round and selection procedure will become more effective, easy, less time consuming and efficient.
Jibe will definitely charge for the services provided. Major share will be from employers and highest-volume users. Employers will be allowed to search the database free of charge, but they will have to pay money in order to make a contact or have a detailed view of profile. Job seekers would have to pay 5$ to apply for 25 jobs per week, applications made in lower numbers like 4-5 per week will not cost them anything. Along with it, job seekers can earn credits that unlock paid features by using services within Jibe, like writing a recommendation, tweeting about the service and inviting friends to join the network.
This is an excellent platform for every Young Graduate and Employer to come close to each other. And evaluate rightly even before the probation period starts.
News source blogs.nytimes.com
