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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. Could Be... by jkakar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I could see it being useful if one could specify a search and have the results of the search be RRSified. Then you could do things like search for "programming c++ unix", stick a live bookmark on your Firefox bookmark toolbar and be able to easily watch new listings come up.

    If it was just an "all the latest jobs" feed I think it would be far less useful.

  2. Re:Maybe you could hire a speller first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Has the spelling been corrected since you posted? From the number of complaints, it must have been far worse than usual but what's up there now is one of the more lucid writeups posted here.

  3. Probably not in the context that you imply by blkmajik · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As an end user trying to get a job this is kinda useless, unless I really want a job with your company. If I am just searching for jobs and you are one of 30 companies in my area I'm not going to subscribe to 30 rss feeds to find a job.

    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...