RSS Feeds For Job Listings - Value or Waste?

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?"

Comments

Are you coupling it with search?

[dmorin]

If you're asking whether it would be valuable to have an RSS feed into a jobs database that allows me to watch for Java web application jobs in the north shore area of massachusetts, then hell yes it would be valuable. If it's just a generic feed of all jobs available at a particular company, than it is no more useful than any other "jobs at our company" html page.

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.

Of course

[Anonymous Coward]

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.