Comments on: RSS Job feeds & Job rolls - Solomon Duskis reaches out to tech readers

By: paul

paul — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:13:47 +0000

It is indeed an interesting debate. I guess a company would need to look closely at what details they put in the RSS, to avoid skimming of their data. It would be more exposure for the major job sites. I like the idea of the referral concept too.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:03:45 +0000

Hey Bernard,

Thanks for the kind words!

You are indeed correct, we don’t display the jobs from either jobs.ie or irishjobs.ie - but that’s a story for another day…
We’re not really modeling ourselves on anyone. When I set up http://www.staff.ie the motivation was always to create a simple, user friendly website. I’m trying to apply this philosophy to Dole.ie as well. (I’ve always thought the job websites in Ireland are too corporate/employer focussed.)

Anyway, I’ll pop you off an e-mail tonight.

Cheers!

By: bbt

bbt — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:15:44 +0000

Oh PS: I didn’t class the comment as spam at all! Happier you sent it. cheers

By: bbt

bbt — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:14:54 +0000

Hi Steve,

Thanks for comment firstly. Yeah I have seen dole.ie, nice site.

I don;’t think you guys index jobs from IrishJobs.ie, buit maybe I am wrong.

RSS feeds would be nice alright. You guys are going on the indeed.com model?

You can contact me here: http://www.runningwithbulls.com/blog/contact-us/

Won’t put out my e-mail address as I get enough spam already.

Drop me a line and we can have a chat!

thanks,
bernard

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:04:33 +0000

I run the Irish jobs website http://www.dole.ie. We spider and display the jobs from all the main job websites in Ireland.

We have an RSS feature - we have feeds by category, location, keyword(s), job website, and all jobs.

Any opinions on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

PS Sorry for the mild spam

By: Solomon Duskis

Solomon Duskis — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:35:11 +0000

I think that there is a more fundamental change that can be done in Job Search market. I spoke at length with recruiters. They said that I’m more marketable when I’m employed… It makes a certain degree of sense, but those kinds of notions might be dispelled with education about the recruitment process.

Prosper.com and Zopa.com have found efficiencies in the banking business by applying social networking, consumer education and openness. I have a feeling that similar types of efficiencies can be performed in the recruiting industry.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:38:47 +0000

I’ve just developed a job-related web-app which has built in RSS feeds. It works by monitoring company jobs sites for changes. When a new job is posted on, for example, www.google.ie/jobs/ you will get an email notifying you of the change. You can tag your various ‘watches’ so you don’t get flooded with responses.

I’m looking for beta testers if anyone is interested, drop me a line at jkennedy at smartnote.ie

By: Solomon Duskis

Solomon Duskis — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:18:34 +0000

The big US tech job search agencies, at least Dice and Monster, have RSS feeds including top searches and individualized search agent results…

I have a techie friend who’s looking for a job here in New York. He told me that he aggregates those RSS feeds to conduct his job search.