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hey everyone I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com welcome to the inside scoop my guest today is Donna Tam staff writer and Donna we're talking about a brand new Facebook feature that was just announced today and that is job searching through Facebook tell us a little bit about this right it's basically an app that Facebook and its partnership with a bunch of other organizations have launched to aggregate a bunch of art existing postings from other companies onto one app so it just provides a central location for job seekers to go if they want to look for work and this has been talked about for some time I mean obviously Facebook has a lot of users and so it makes sense to be able to tap into those millions and millions of users they provide them something they really need like a job right and I think that's the appeal for job recruiters is that there's just so many people in facebook there's a billion users and those job recruiters want to tap into that potential and yeah it's been it's something they've been working on since they launched their partnership last year just focus on social job recruiting so how does this have work have you tried it out I've tried it out a little bit so basically you can search by keyword and location you you can plug in a keyword and pull up a bunch of the the open positions available it someplace you know and it's basically sourced from five different recruiting or relations so it's from their their own job listings that they've put on there okay and so the this site or the app is now available today so we'll see if there's any real concrete jobs that come out of it I guess too early to tell what are your thoughts on how this positions Facebook against the competition for example linkedin another social site a lot of people use for job searching for sure I mean LinkedIn's probably I mean they're definitely watching as I'm sure because this is their bread and butter being able to connect people through their social networks to find jobs this probably is it's an interesting position for facebook although the company is has you know been saying that we're not making any money off of this so they're trying to put themselves away from that and saying that we're not trying to get into this space but that remains to be seen I mean they could you know they could very well jump into that space in the future and it also seems right now with stock roughly half of its value from when it offered in May they can't do any harm in trying something just to drive up traffic increase ad revenue yeah that's a good point zoo we'll see ya thank you so much Donna Tam staff writer for cnet com i'm kharece ooh boy thanks for watching the inside scoop