Facebook Jobs is shutting down: what changes and what stays
Facebook is shutting down Facebook Jobs in February 2022. No explanation given.
That alone is weird. You’d think a platform that size would at least pretend to justify pulling a feature used by thousands of companies. My guess? Money. Free job postings don’t generate revenue, and Meta clearly wants to squeeze everything it can right now.
So what’s actually changing?
What’s going away?
The ability to post free job listings on company pages via API is gone. API, for those unfamiliar, is just the technical bridge between Facebook and tools like ATS systems that automate job posting. After February, pushing job posts to your company page through an ATS system simply won’t work. Facebook specifically says this applies to free postings. I suspect paid API posting is exactly where this is heading.
The “Jobs” category is also disappearing from Facebook group categories. When you create a group today, you can tag it as a Jobs group. Here’s the current list:
Come February, that category is gone. Every group currently labeled “Jobs” gets converted to a general group automatically.
The dedicated job templates go away too — the ones with salary, location, working hours fields, plus the aggregated job listing view. All gone.
Worth noting: these changes affect everyone except users in the USA and Canada. If you’re recruiting in Europe or anywhere else outside North America, this hits you directly.
What still works?
General groups aren’t going anywhere. You can still post job offers in general groups as regular posts, just without the job-specific templates. That’s how most job groups already work in practice anyway. The “Jobs” groups just get relabeled.
Companies should also be able to post jobs on their own pages manually, as standard updates. No structured fields, no dedicated section, just a regular post. Whether Facebook eventually paywalls structured job posting is the real question here. Given the direction they’re going, I’d bet on it.
If your company relies heavily on Facebook for candidate sourcing, now is the time to spread your bets. Bookmark our list of Facebook groups and job portals in Poland — we maintain it together with recruiters and it’s probably the most complete collection you’ll find.
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