After my sister graduated from college last year, she struggled to find a job in her field. She scoured job site after job site looking for a match, but none of the listings matched her internship experience or fashion merchandising major. She finally landed a job, but I’m betting it would have been much easier if this had been around.  

Jackalope Jobs is a brand new, free website that uses social media connections to land you a job. Since its debut last month, it has gained more than 2,000 registered users.  Users can sign in using LinkedIn, Facebook or Plaxo (an online address book) and Jackalope puts together possible job opportunities based on your contacts, credentials and connections. You can then search through those connections or the site’s job listings to find the perfect opening.  

Already, Jackalope’s management has big plans for this start-up company.

“Our mission is to help one million people find a job by the year 2015,” Sudy Bharadwaj, founder and CEO, told Mashable.

While that goal might be a bit high, I think this website is exactly what job seekers need. Recent college graduates, in particular, know social media. Most use it daily, but don’t know the opportunities it could bring them. Why not put those already-made profiles to good use? Jackalope is a simple way to justify all the time you’ve wasted on Facebook.  

In a couple years, I’ll be one of those recent grads and I can only hope Jackalope is still around. Once the site allows you to import information from any social network, Jackalope Jobs may become the next big thing in the millennial job search.

 Kerri Linsenbigler is a summer intern at Travers Collins.