After testing it with handpicked partners over the past few months, X has officially launched its new job listings element in beta, meaning any Verified Organization on the app can now add job listings to their profile.
now, businesses with a gold checkmark can add an open roles shelf to their profile, which will appear above their main timeline, and below their profile bio and following/follower numbers.
Tap on the “View all jobs” CTA and you’ll be able to see all the open positions that company currently has listed, and you’ll be able to apply for each (via third-party hosting) by tapping on the specific job detail.
As noted, X has been experimenting with job listings for the last few months, and recently added it to the Verification for Organizations feature listing.
While it's not entirely available, nor fully functional at this point either, once it is, the potential is substantial.
To post job openings under your business's profile, you first need to be a subscriber to Verification for Organizations, X's $1k per month premium business plan. Then you need to apply to join the X Hiring beta, and be accepted by X to take part.
Job listings are also not showing up to all users in all regions as yet, so it’s not entirely fleshed out and optimized. But that’s a consequence of moving fast, and I’m sure that many would prefer to have mostly working updates, as opposed to much slower feature rollouts.
It's yet another aspect in Elon Musk's "everything app" strategy, through which he envisions X as the central hub for facilitating many, many more things on the path to becoming a trillion-dollar company.
The actual plan on this front is pretty vague, but essentially, Elon wants to start by enabling payments and banking in the app, then once people start relying on X for money, use that foundation to branch into other new areas, including jobs, dating, and virtually every type of transaction that you can think of.
It's an optimistic vision that will need a great deal to go right. Still, perhaps eventually, if people begin to rely on the app for more day-to-day functions, it could be a much greater complement.
Few would be willing to bet against Musk outright, though again, there's a long way to go before that even looks close to possible. However, by adding in new elements, such as job listings, Elon is looking to gradually build the framework of the everything app and enhance its appeal in many more ways.
And with so many businesses already building really valuable relationships through the platform, and even advertising open jobs through X posts, job listings starts to make some sense.
And Elon's confident that it's not going to be "super cringe" like LinkedIn.
It'll be interesting to see how X Hiring performs, and what results businesses see from their listings, as Musk and Co. continue the transformation of the app.