Normally, when you're looking for jobs, you usually go to LinkedIn or other job-searching websites to look for employment opportunities. Soon enough, you might be able to do so just be opening X, formerly known as Twitter.
Job Searching on X
Elon Musk is adding more features, wanted or not, on the social media platform to slowly build his dream of an "everything app." His most recent addition is the ability to look for jobs within the app, and the feature is already available to select users and devices.
The beta version has already been launched back in August, but it was only available to X Premium subscribers. It's only recently that the job searching tool has been opened to non-paying users as well, although it is only accessible through the web.
The company said that the tool will be available to Android and iOS apps soon, but X did not indicate exactly when that will be. For now, users can easily open X through the web to look for potential jobs they might want to apply to.
Currently, there are no job offerings from other companies. But, if you're looking for jobs under Elon Musk's companies, then you came to the right place. The job listings are for positions in companies like SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, x.AI, and X itself, as per Engadget.
To search for a job opening, there are two fields that need to be filled such as Keyword, which is for the job description, and Location. It's far from Musk's promise, saying that they will "make sure that the X competitor to LinkedIn is cool," but it is still in its early stages.
While this can be a convenient way to look for employment within the app, specifically in companies that Elon Musk owns or heads, not everything can be done within X. Users still need to head to third-party sites to fill out applications and complete the process.
X the Everything App
The X owner plans for the social media company to be worth $250 billion someday by making it an app where you can do anything from reading the news to making payments. Ironically, the steps he has taken to get there have done the opposite.
So far, Musk's actions only managed to lower the valuation of X even further. With the purchase of $44 billion, X is now less than half of its acquisition price at $19 million. That's a 55% drop in value, as per The New York Times, and it was likely due to his questionable choices.
The paid subscription was among the new features that some users still don't agree with to this day, but the company needed the revenue to stay afloat, especially since it lost a lot of advertisers in the last year after the entire "free speech absolutist" controversy.
The platform has not been a friend to news publications either, especially those that Musk does not like. As the Tesla CEO shapes the app into his vision of an ideal app, more users are exiting the platform and moving to different alternatives.
