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RSS Feeds For Job Listings - Value or Waste?

Posted by Cliff on from the innovative-tech-applications dept.

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?"

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  1. Craig and other subjects by fm6 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I've been using the Craigslist RSS job feeds for a while now, and find it handy. A quick glance at my Sage sidebar tells me which feeds have new listings. A click on a particular feed title gives me all the new job titles, so I can quickly browse the ones that interest. I now check the Craigslist feeds several times a day, whereas I only used to check the Cragslist web pages once a day.

    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 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.