It has been difficult to find employment in the creative market
because high competition and few job openings have made the field
one of the most competitive. Facebook is currently looking to pick
four elite candidates from the pool of graphic design and coding
hopefuls to elevate the site’s online function and appearance.
Fast CoDesign wrote that Facebook has been struggling to find
its footing as a marketing and revenue-generating firm since it
went public on Wall Street in 2012. Since then, the company’s stock
has fallen while the rest of the business has stayed lucrative. The
problem, according to product design director Margaret Stewart, is
that there’s no conversion between user data and marketing
income.
In response, the source wrote that Facebook will be building its
first dedicated design team in New York at the start of 2013.
The company will have a broad pool to pick from, but that
doesn’t mean it will find the people it wants immediately. A study
by The Creative Group showed that more than one-third of executives
said finding good people for this field during the interview
process was a challenge, with a similar percentage actively trying
to fill these kinds of positions at the start of 2013. With so many
companies trying to pull the best design and marketing personnel at
once job hopefuls might find a lush employment market in this field
for once.