TikTok might help you find your next job

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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.

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid is a staff writer at The Week and a graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. Her passions include improv comedy, David Fincher films, and breakfast food. She lives in New York.