land a new job, or launch a new job?

[engstar]

To express "start a new job", can we say "land a new job", or "launch a new job" ?

[albertino]

To express "start a new job", can we say "land a new job", or "launch a new job" ?

(Not a teacher)
Land(JOB/CONTRACT ETC)
[transitive] informal/ to succeed in getting a job, contract etc that was difficult to get
He landed a job with a law firm.

LAUNCH(START SOMETHING)
to start something, usually something big or important
-The organization has launched a campaign to raise $150,000.
-The Canadian police plan to launch an investigation into the deal.
(Source: Longman Dict.)

Simply use "start a new job" is fine to me. What the heck?

[engstar]

After consulting many dictionaries, I think that:
(1) "to land a job" means "to win/obtain/gain a job".
(2) "to launch INTO a job" means "to start a job"

[Barb_D]

I would not use "launch" that way.

If you create a new business, you can launch a business. If you create a new product, you can launch a product. Launch does not work well with the idea of a job, especially one that you are doing instead of creating.

If you, yourself, have recently "landed" a job, I suggest you simply say you are starting you new job.