Product design question

Design a jobs product for Facebook.

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What this question tests

Tests product design for entering a competitive market by leveraging a platform's unique existing assets rather than copying incumbents.

Clarify scope: assume a jobs discovery and application product within Facebook, leveraging existing Pages and Groups rather than a from-scratch professional network.
Identify the target user: local and hourly job seekers who use Facebook heavily but aren't well served by LinkedIn's white-collar resume model.
Identify the core job: discover nearby, relevant job openings from local businesses already active on Facebook Pages, and apply with minimal friction.
Propose job postings sourced directly from Business Pages, an application flow pre-filled from existing profile info, and Marketplace-style local filtering.
Address trust: verify posting businesses are legitimate, established Pages to reduce scam job postings, a known real risk in this space.
Define success: application completion rate, and employer-reported hire rate from applications sourced through the product.

Targets a genuinely underserved segment, local and hourly job seekers, rather than competing head-on with LinkedIn's white-collar niche.
Leverages Facebook's actual existing assets, Business Pages and profile data, rather than building a parallel professional network from scratch.
Addresses scam and fraud risk explicitly, a well-known real problem for job marketplaces open to any poster.
Defines success with a hiring-outcome metric, not just application volume, tying it to real value delivered.

Copying LinkedIn's resume-and-networking model instead of leveraging Facebook's actual unique assets and user base.
Ignoring fraud and scam job posting risk, a significant real trust issue for open job marketplaces.

How would you verify a posting business is legitimate without adding too much friction?
How would this differ for a small local business versus a large employer chain?