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Google Will Soon Add Job Listings To Search Results (usatoday.com)
Google's mission is to steer people to the information they need in their daily lives. One crucial area the Internet giant says could use some work: Jobs. USA Today adds: So Google is launching a new feature, Google for Jobs, that collects and organizes millions of job postings from all over the web to make them easier for job seekers to find. In coming weeks, a Google search for a cashier job in Des Moines or a software engineering gig in Boise will pop up job openings at the top of search results. With Google for Jobs, job hunters will be able to explore the listings across experience and wage levels by industry, category and location, refining these searches to find full or part-time roles or accessibility to public transportation. Google is determined to crack the code on matching available jobs with the right candidates, CEO Sundar Pichai said during his keynote address Wednesday at Google's annual I/O conference for software developers here. "The challenge of connecting job seekers to better information on job availability is like many search challenges we've solved in the past," he said.
Will it be loaded with recruiter spam and fake jobs?
LinkedIn, Indeed, Monster, Career Builder, etc. All the entry of Google will do is dilute the search process even more. In the current situation Google functions as a search engine able to cross all of those (except LinkedIn, unless that's changed). Having it create ANOTHER separate index and dilute HR search attention will not help anything. Google also has no experience managing job listings, and that creates a poor pathway to quality. Expect scams and blatantly illegal listings to dominate until Google gains the knowledge of how to filter them out reliably. Problem then is, won't people just leave while Google has all these "growing pains"? It is better for Google to instead partner with one of the large existing players to leverage their technical infrastructure and wider distribution channels.
I earn $55k in IT in Silicon Valley. One of my specialities is host files. Hopefully this would allow me to increase my earning potential.
If I'm using Google to search for an anime question, I don't want to see job listings that require speaking Japanese. Bad enough I still get recruiters contacting me for Japanese-speaking positions even though I haven't worked at Fujitsu and Sony in years. Working at a Japanese company in the US doesn't mean that I'm fluent in Japanese. I had to explain that to a hiring manager who called from Tokyo a few years ago.
Fixed that for you.
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
No job search result is legit without a position requiring five years of experience in a technology that came out six months ago.
FTFY
Google continues to make it easy to trick people via advertising by having absolutely no quality bar for their advertisers. Not to mention trying to continuously spy on their users through android surveillance and chrome keylogging.
Ok. Great. When will Google go back to including search results in my search results?
This is yet another reason to perform all searches first in DuckDuckGo (DDG). Only when DDG doesn't find what I need do I then use DDG's !g shortcut to perform the same search in Google.
Even then, I wouldn't dream of searching either DDG or Google without a domain-filtering tool like Google Hit Hider by Domain (https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites)
In addition to what you mentioned they also will cross-index with things like Maps to give you an idea of commute times to various places - that does sound useful.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If I'm searching for something and "job", "interview", "career" and related words are *not* in my search terms, I'm not looking for a job! Don't show me!
I already use ixquick and DDG, but this change makes it even less likely I'll trust Google's results. There's too much BS going on (AdSense, PageRank, various copyright filters, Google's own bias, etc) behind the scenes to get just the results of your search.
If I want a job, I'll be searching for it.
captcha: carcass. I'd like to see Google's.
Due to a typo in the job listing, the opening you have applied for has been eliminated. Please re-apply to the new job opening. Yes we can keep that fake job up forever by inserting and removing typos each week.
Can't wait til I have to search for a driver next.....
You know if you weren't such a thick nondairy creamer, you could interpret the requirements to mean experience with the specific technology and five years total experience in general.
DuckDuckGo results include jobs from Indeed.com.
You know, for when Agent Orange gets impeached and Shumer/McCain reopen the immigration floodgates.
Don't forget the starting wage for someone with zero experience.
$50K in silicone creamer.
I am not sure it is a good news. When hiring, a huge time is spent filtering out opportunist candidates whose profile does not match the position. Easier finding by hardly interested Google users will probably not help.
If there's anything in modern media with a higher bullshit-to-content ratio than job listings I haven't seen it.
Nope, no sig
Make a Google for renting and buying where when I search for "non-retirement full-ownership 1 bedroom flat" (that description is UK-centric) I don't get a list of commercial spaces, parking spaces, and river boats.