RSS Feeds For Job Listings - Value or Waste? 49
Matrixxx1 asks: "I'm sure by now we have all tasted RSS, and the immense power behind it. I have been asked to integrate RSS Feeds for job listings and resumes. I was curious as to whether it has been done, and if so, by who? Also curious as to whether this would be worthy of my time to set up? Can anyone see this as a value to them, or is it just another bell and whistle that won't get used?"
Re:MOD PARENT UP! (Score:2)
Oh, wait... nevermind. They did.
Re: Spell check! (Score:1)
Re:Maybe you could hire a speller first? (Score:1, Interesting)
Yep, they fixed it (Score:1)
blabla, lameness filter defeater...
Now time for Grammer (Score:2)
Re:Maybe you could hire a speller first? (Score:2, Funny)
Geez.. isn't that a little like asking SCO for ethics lessons?
Could Be... (Score:4, Interesting)
If it was just an "all the latest jobs" feed I think it would be far less useful.
Re:Could Be... (Score:2)
I have an RSS feed for a query of my own name (for vanity reasons).
I'm not sure what the crawl frequency of the MSN bot is though.
Are you coupling it with search? (Score:4, Insightful)
In the reverse, if you are a manager looking for employees, then some sort of search/feed combination on the ever growing database of resumes would be interesting, too. "Alert me whenever a new resume comes out with somebody that has 5yrs of java". That would imply that all resumes meet a certain meta-data guideline, though.
As a current job seeker (Score:2)
Just my $0.02
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Re:As a current job seeker (Score:2)
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Craig and other subjects (Score:3, Informative)
Thing is, I don't seem to be a very typical RSS user. Most of them seem to be a lot better at divided-attention tasks than I am, and like to exploit that skill by having an RSS ticker, or something similar, in one corner of their screen. Which might not be a very good way to browse job listings.
I'd urge you to consider using Atom [wikipedia.org] instead of RSS. It's not a big deal for the short term, since current applications seem to support pretty much the same feature set for both RSS and Atom feeds. But Atom seems to be a more extendable, forward-looking format, with support for "semantic web" features.
Re:Craig and other subjects (Score:1)
I mean, I don't need to go into the advantages of rss (or competing techs like atom) as they are understood by this crowd better than most, but never the less. The point is that this is an incredibly appropriate use for whichever technology you
Umm, Usenet? (Score:1)
Work search engines do it (Score:2)
RSS search results is supported by:
http://www.indeed.com/
http://www.workzoo.c o m/
Not supported:
http://www.simplyhired.com/
The practicality of job searches as RSS feeds is pretty good for both activ
Re:Work search engines do it (Score:2)
Their RSS feeds are useful -- but it's worth noting why. The feeds are dynamically generated, and incorporate whatever search criteria the user specifies. So now I have several new fee
Re:Work search engines do it (Score:1)
advice (Score:1)
Don't have the luxury of a social network? Then build one. You're going to need it sooner or later.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong (Score:1)
Companies of a certain size will have either internal or legal requirements to publicly post job listings. The reason? Legal defensibility against discriminatory hiring practices.
Don't get me wrong: networking is important to find out about the jobs or even get your foot in the door for small companies...but at companies of any size, you will be asked to submit your online resume for a specific job posting.
Of course (Score:3, Insightful)
Also curious as to whether this would be worthy of my time to set up? Can anyone see this as a value to them, or is it just another bell and whistle that won't get used?"
I find it difficult to believe anybody can be familiar with RSS/Atom and not see how this is immediately applicable.
A basic rule of thumb is that if it's a data source that is updated on an irregular basis, it works even better as RSS.
It's not about your website. It's about everybody's websites. Subscribing to one feed isn't that different to checking one website manually. Subscribing to a hundred feeds is a hell of a lot different to checking a hundred websites manually.
Re:Data-Mining the Job Market. (Score:2)
Not all of us (Score:2)
Re:Not all of us (Score:2)
SOAP (Score:2)
Here is some Apache SOAP info: http://ws.apache.org/soap/ [apache.org]
And here is how are good friends in Redmond do it: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/ [microsoft.com]
I have not used the Apache stuff, but in ASP.NET and C# it is very easy to both set up and consume web services. After promoting MS, I now need to go wash my han
SOAP is dead (Score:2)
Oh, and nobody cares about SOAP [redmonk.com], anyway.
Re:SOAP is dead (Score:2)
Nobody like all the major software vendors? Nobody like the biggest retailer in the world using it as the standard for communication with vendors? Come on man, you provide a link to some dinky little web site where some guy writes some crap about SOAP? Have you ever used SOAP in a real world situation? I have, and it works great.
craigslist does this (Score:1)
unix search [craigslist.org]
Of course, if this is an RSS feed for one small company, the value is a bit diminished. If it is for a large popular company like google, that feed would get a lot of usage. But bottom line, if your boss tells you to do it, get it done and stop wasting time on slashdot.
Re:craigslist does this (Score:1)
Probably not in the context that you imply (Score:3, Interesting)
Where this would be really useful is in job search portals that could aggrigate rss like feeds. You would have a standard naming scheme like "http://www.example.com/jobs.rss" (similiar to robots.txt) that search engines could hit looking for job postings.
Doing something like this would allow easy job listing access for your local chamber of commerce to aggrigate local job listings from local companies.
There's definatly possibilities, but I doubt that it's useful for end users unless you are a large corporation like IBM/Microsoft etc...
Drivin that value, huh? (Score:2)
Consider this: over 62% of all successful job applicants get a job via personal contacts/references. <1% of all successful job applications do a Bernard Shifman [petemoss.com]*. Your approach is towards the 'moran' end of the scale.
*Sources:
"The Career Networks," by Charlene Li, Forrester Research (Boston), February, 2000.
"Still Hiring -- But Wanting The Human Touch," by Tom Pohlmann, Forrester Research (Boston), November 29
Useless unless targeted (Score:2)
For a job seeker, making your resume one among thousands is not an effective strategy, even if it takes little effort. When I have listed my resume in databases, the only result has been
Absolutely valuable - but only if done right (Score:2)
So what I am saying is tha for every RSS subscribe you have to run a query, and seliver that as the RSS. As a matter of fact Monday I was finding myself wishing for this feature in careerbuilder and monster. But I fear just that they'll just tie it to an all-encompasing region which is NOT what I want . Career buioilder has an in
jobble (Score:1)