{"id":1032,"date":"2011-12-05T11:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T11:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anythingforhire.com\/news\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2016-07-07T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T10:18:40","slug":"facebook-to-hire-thousands-of-new-staff-for-new-york-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/facebook-to-hire-thousands-of-new-staff-for-new-york-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to hire thousands of new staff for New York office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1033\" title=\"facebook-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/facebook-logo-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" \/>The world\u2019s largest social network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnythingForHire\">Facebook<\/a>, is planning to almost double the size of its workforce within the next year with plans to launch an engineering centre in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The plans for the new recruitment drive and company expansion were announced on Friday by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnythingForHire\">Facebook<\/a> Chief Operating Operator, Sheryl Sandberg, who revealed that the social network would be looking to add thousands of employees to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnythingForHire\">Facebook<\/a> payroll over the course of the next year.<\/p>\n<p>While Ms Sanberg refused to put an exact number on the staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnythingForHire\">Facebook<\/a> are planning to employ as part of the new recruitment drive, she did reveal that they would hire as many qualified candidates as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnythingForHire\">Facebook<\/a>\u2019s main workforce is currently based in California where the social network employs 3,000 people, while their New York base is miniature in comparison with just 100 currently employed in the city.<\/p>\n<p>However all of that is due to change over the next 12 months with plans afoot to open a brand new engineering centre in New York in early 2012 employing skilled engineers to enhance the site\u2019s features and write new coding to ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnythingForHire\">Facebook<\/a>\u2019s 800 million users worldwide benefit from the very latest technology and online features.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from the TV network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AnythingForHire\">Facebook<\/a> are currently accepting applications to fill their vacancies at their New York base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s largest social network, Facebook, is planning to almost double the size of its workforce within the next year with plans to launch an engineering centre in New York&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-event-hire","category-hire-rental-news"],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anythingforhire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}