TikTok might help you find your next job
Step aside, LinkedIn — there's a new networking service in town.
TikTok, the popular social media app known for baked feta pasta, trendy dances, and now career advice, is reportedly testing a new recruitment tool designed to connect eager candidates with hiring companies, according to Axios.
The new service, currently in beta, will reportedly be a separate web page accessible from the app interface where "brands can post jobs, primarily entry level listings."
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Instead of a traditional written resume, TikTok users will supposedly share a "video resume" that highlights their experience "in a unique way," Axios writes.
Read more at Axios.
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Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.
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