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.
Read more about Element here.
DISCOVER ELEMENT!
Maciej Michalewski
CEO @ Element. Recruitment Automation Software
Recent posts:
Element now has an API: recruitment that plugs into your own systems
Element now has a public API (v1-beta). I explain what integrations give recruitment-system clients, the mistakes I made and what they taught me.
Recruiting from your phone: Element is now mobile, built by AI
Element’s mobile views are in production. Recruiters and hiring managers now run the process from a phone, and AI wrote 15,000 lines of code in five weeks.
You get an email from AI instead of a human, problem?
Getting an email from AI instead of a human is fine, as long as the data stays high quality. Most routine work is algorithmic, and the outcome matters more than the author of the message.
The AI job apocalypse is a fantasy, says a16z. But Poland?
David George of a16z says the AI job apocalypse is a fantasy. I test his thesis against Polish data and a fresh vibe coded experiment of my own.
Vibe Coded Element x LinkedIn integration is live: project recap
LinkedIn approved Element’s public XML feed, fully built in vibe coding mode with Claude Code. What that means for people who don’t write code.
danehr.pl: a new data hub for the Polish labour market
Polskie Forum HR has launched danehr.pl, a portal that gathers employment, wages, unemployment and labour market reports in one place. Element is the technology partner of PFHR and feeds one of the portal’s sections.
