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What Do You Want in a Job Website?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-would-you-improve-it dept.

antifoidulus asks: "After reading some complaints about monster.com from both the perspectives of job seekers and employers it struck me as how, even in 2006, most job sites are incredibly poor at what they do. So I ask my fellow Slashdot readers, both job seekers and employers, what do you really want in a jobs web site? What features are totally lacking in the current crop? Also, what aspects of the current systems do you love/hate?"

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  1. To be blunt... by B5_geek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Jobs not recruiters..

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    1. Re:To be blunt... by basic0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I couldn't agree with this more. I won't even look at job postings by recruiters. If an employer is serious about hiring, I fully expect them to be involved in the hiring process from the start. This Homer Simpson "can't someone else do it?" attitude completely turns me off of whatever job it may be.

      On a related note, I wonder how long it'll be until the job recruiters are outsourcing their positions overseas so even THEY are barely involved. I hear capitalism works pretty well when jobs disappear and nobody can afford to buy anything.

  2. Sanity checking? by PornMaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sick of seeing "open" or "market" for salary ranges.

    I'm sick of seeing job postings that want someone to be experts in Cisco, Windows administration, Exchange, AD, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, SAP, and perl scripting experts for $60k.

    I'm sick of seeing job postings with technology contradictions, including requiring more years of experience with a technology than it's been around.

    I'm sick of seeing job postings for jobs that don't exist -- find a way to penalize recruiters who post non-existant jobs for resume collection.

    I'm sick of seeing job postings which misclassify jobs entirely. Find standardized ways of describing a position, like using SAGE's job descriptions -- http://www.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/core.mm

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  3. As a contractor.. by BlueBoxSW.com · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... I really don't use job sites, but I've poked around a bit.

    1) ban recruiters
    2) manditory salary ranges
    3) must include company name so I can do research
    4) use a good set of standard tags (travel, COBOL, PMI, etc)
    5) list when you're deciding to award the job

  4. Less experienced openings by tcjohnson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As in, things for a bright college student to do, without needing 10 years of experience in everything. I mean, I get the point, but I *know* that I'm capable of doing a few things here and there.

  5. I second that... by Vellmont · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's nothing I hate more than having to go through some recruiter (who often turns out to be a scumbag). What I want in a jobsite is an actual connection between job seekers and employers, with no middlemen getting in the way. The recruiters are a problem in more ways than I can count.

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