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Google Will Soon Add Job Listings To Search Results (usatoday.com)

Posted by msmash on from the more-things dept.

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.

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  1. Will it be loaded with recruiter spam and fake job by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

    Will it be loaded with recruiter spam and fake jobs?

  2. Overcrowded Market by Jzanu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

    1. Re:Overcrowded Market by HornWumpus · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The market is overcrowded, but full of multiple copies (one per recruiter) of bogus job listings (person is already 'hired', now they need to go through motions.)

      Google could add value, but they likely won't as the people paying the bills in job search are the ones putting out all the bad data.

      Google could include 'likelihood of Bullshit', attached to each listing. Also include a link to original listing to cut the recruiters out of the picture. Better: Show the recruiters adds as tree branches under the original listing, default to unexpanded.

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    2. Re:Overcrowded Market by Jzanu · · Score: 1

      Google hates hierarchies. They killed Vivisimo which specialized in clustered search presented to the user through automatically generated keyword trees. It was too bad. Hopefully IBM will do something in tribute with the personnel acquired from them.

    3. Re:Overcrowded Market by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 1

      Yeah google should concentrate on fixing their borked search engine

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    4. Re:Overcrowded Market by mjwx · · Score: 1

      The market is overcrowded, but full of multiple copies (one per recruiter) of bogus job listings (person is already 'hired', now they need to go through motions.)

      This. Indeed does a somewhat good job of aggregating jobs here in the UK but I still check some others like Jobserve. Most recruiters are too lazy to write separate job decriptions for each site so its easy to spot ones on different search engines. If LinkedIn wants to be a serious competitor, it needs to up its game in the search arena.

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  3. IT jobs? by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    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.

    1. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      What kind of moron makes only $55K in Silicon Valley? :P

    2. Re:IT jobs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      the kind that specializes in host files.

    3. Re:IT jobs? by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

      sudo rm -rf / -preserve root

    4. Re:IT jobs? by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      There are many of us. We pick up the trash and clean the toilets. We ride public transportation. We aren't all newly minted millionaires here in Silicon Valley you kow.

    5. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Is this some sort of trolling, or are you just fucked in the head?

      110010001000 is trolling me. But I'm flattered that he wants to be like me. As Casey Neistat pointed out in a video, success is when everyone wants to be you.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iQ8BGw13So

    6. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Get it?

      I'm already successful and planning to be more successful. Otherwise, you wouldn't be trying to put me down at every opportunity. If you thought I was unsuccessful, you would have ignored me as many others have done.

    7. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Successful at what, exactly?

      Life. People are always telling me what I can't do because I'm [fat | retarded | ugly | small dick | big dick | whatever]. I always enjoy surprising them by what I can do by exceeding their low expectations. Hence, the reputation of being a miracle worker in my professional career.

      Please elaborate - what successes can you claim?

      I'm working on a lot of cool stuff that I can't reveal for the next few years. I'm in the process of rebuilding my side business after operating for ten years.

    8. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      [...] a miracle worker is not a person who exceeds low expectations.

      Please educate yourself on what a miracle worker is.

      http://projectmanagementhacks.com/project-management-skills/

    9. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      So you're saying that a miracle worker is actually someone who lies about how long a task will take, then exceeds that deliberate low-ball estimate, and then takes credit for exceeding schedule commitments?

      It's called managing expectations. When I was a lead video game tester, I added two months to the schedule estimate that everyone used to calculate their milestone bonuses. Nine out of ten projects my schedule estimate was the most accurate. The tenth project had an actual design doc and stayed on schedule.

      For someone who spouts off about ethics & honesty here, you sure do seem pretty comfortable with lying to make yourself look good, creimer.

      The alternative is to have other people defined who I am. So I deliberately play into everyone's low expectation, find the one job that no wants to do, perform a miracle and walk away with glowing recommendations for my next contract job.

    10. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Meeting low expectations is not miracle work.

      The trick is to find the job that no one else wants to do. For example, the IT department at a local hospital had a 600-sqft storage room that no one had seen the floor in eight years. I asked to move my desk into the storage room, spent six weeks between tickets and assignments clearing out that storage room, and embarrassed the full-time staff that made the mess.

      If you get such glowing recommendations, how is it that you're making 50k per year in Silicon Valley with 20 years of glowing recommendations for miracle work under your belt?

      Because my technical career isn't one continuous line upward. I spent seven years as a software tester. Six years in help desk/desktop support. I was a team lead for PC refresh projects for several years. Built out a data center and tested 11AC wireless for several years. Now I do InfoSec remediation.

    11. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      You're overlooking the possibility that the people who were embarrassed were embarrassed FOR you, not BY you.

      No, I embarrassed them. A tech had a ticket in his queue that sat neglected for nine months because he didn't like the user. Manager gave me the ticket. I went over with a cart to pick up old equipment. User was super pissed off. I had to explain that I was a contractor on temporary assignment and asked what I could do for her. I ended up picking up three carts of old equipment. When I went back with paper towels and a spray bottle to wipe down the counters, the manager and the tech came with me. The user praised me for the work I did and cussed out the tech for the work that he didn't do. This story confirmed by the manager during reference checks got me my current job.

      How much money did you make as a software tester?

      $10 to $16 per hour.

      How much in helpdesk?

      $20 to $22 per hour.

      How much as a team lead?

      $24 per hour.

      [...] but you're still making 50k per year doing it, which is a laughably, absurdly low pay rate for any senior person.

      Since I got an extra month of pay as a Christmas bonus last year, I'm making closer to $30 per hour.

      Seriously, even you can't be dumb enough to believe your own press.

      I'm not dumb enough to believe your negativity.

    12. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      In 7 years, you managed to go from $10 an hour to $16 an hour - wow... did they raise minimum wage or something?

      Minimum wage was $5 per hour back in 1997. It's $10 per hour today.

      In 6 years, you managed to get a $2/hr raise. Whoa!

      Great Recession.

      For "several years" your pay stayed flat.

      You have heard of the Great Recession?

      And you're proud of that.

      Yes, I am.

      That's right, because you'd have to be much smarter than you are to believe me - being "dumb enough to believe my negativity" would be a fucking UPGRADE for you.

      Take your negativity and stick it up your ass.

      If you're the same asshat commenting on a programming thread, a double dumb ass on you.

    13. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      But, since you have made no contributions of note to the industry, it's not worth my time.

      That's because the IT industry pays my bills. It's not where I'm making my mark. That's like telling Harrison Ford that he made no contributions to the construction trades as a carpenter in between movies.

    14. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Don't pretend to be an IT professional when you have only the merest understanding of the topics being discussed, and then act butt-hurt when people who DO understand the topics tell you that you're a semi-literate buffoon.

      I spent 20+ years working in IT. I'm not going to let a half-dozen overpaid asshats run me off of Slashdot.

    15. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      I'm just offering you some advice as to how you might make your life a degree less miserable than it is already.

      I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks. Slashdot is nothing in comparison to the miseries that I've suffered in Real Liffe. Shit like this doesn't bother me at all.

      https://twitter.com/cdreimer/status/865411816704192512

    16. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      [...]you whined on twitter about it to your audience of 0 [...]

      TWEETS: 18.7K, FOLLOWING: 1,625, FOLLOWERS: 1,113
      https://twitter.com/cdreimer

      I'm not whining about asshats, I'm laughing at asshats.

    17. Re:IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      You're whining about asshats, hoping somebody will tell you "hey creimer, feel good about yourself!"

      What makes you think I need approval from you or anyone else?

    18. Re: IT jobs? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      The fact that you keep making a nuisance of yourself here, trying to get approval?

      I'm here to have fun by trolling the trolls.

  4. No, no, no... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:No, no, no... by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 1

      Should of said fly me out 1st class for the interview.

    2. Re:No, no, no... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

      Should of said fly me out 1st class for the interview.

      Unfortunately, my Anime Japanese or rendition of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" wasn't good enough to pull that one off.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

  5. Google's mission is to steer people, period. by uCallHimDrJ0NES · · Score: 1

    Fixed that for you.

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  6. Re:Will it be loaded with recruiter spam and fake by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No job search result is legit without a position requiring five years of experience in a technology that came out six months ago.

  7. As if monitoring everything we do wasn't enough by Nunya666 · · Score: 1

    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)

  8. Also by SuperKendall · · Score: 1

    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.

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  9. So, Google becomes less useful. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    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.

  10. Not sure it is good by manu0601 · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Not sure it is good by radarskiy · · Score: 1

      When job seeking, a huge time is spent filtering out opportunist recruiters whose positions do not match my profile. I have a PhD in electrical engineering, why are you sending me openings for pastry chefs?

  11. Talk about "fake news" by drew_kime · · Score: 1

    If there's anything in modern media with a higher bullshit-to-content ratio than job listings I haven't seen it.

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  12. Re:great by ls671 · · Score: 1

    Our company is looking for an experienced driver. Salary is 1500$ a week.

    Please contact us for further details.

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