Career coach: The new Facebook jobs site could threaten LinkedIn The emergence of Facebook in the recruitment space would certainly upset the applecart, with the "social" users moving into the "professional" space previously dominated by LinkedIn and other professional networking sites. However, a first look at the Facebook job board suggests that this is early days and the site is currently focused only on the US market and is unlikely to have much of an impact on UK based job hunters in the immediate future. Nevertheless that could change fast and with such a large user base in the UK and with major recruitment partners like Monster playing a part in the Facebook job board, it can only be a matter of time before we start seeing Facebook as a major player in the UK job search market. Another intriguing factor is the demographics; LinkedIn tends to appeal to the older, middle to senior manager whereas Facebook has an overwhelmingly younger user base. Interestingly another major player is entering the UK "youth" recruitment market with Go Think Big backed by O2 and Bauer Media (creators of brands like Heat, Grazia and FHM). This site is specifically designed "to help young people get a foot on the career ladder" and is up and running right now with plenty of UK based roles targeted at first jobbers and graduates. There's also heaps of advice for young job seekers. With unemployment figures showing nearly 1m young people aged 16-24 are looking for work and with many school leavers and graduates struggling to get that first job, this may well be the market that Facebook intends to address in the future. So for now Facebook is probably not going to have a major impact on your job search but over the coming months that may change and, at least for younger job hunters, this could be a very positive development.