Work search engines
This is my response to Slashdot discussion of compiling job opps into RSS feed.
I’ve seen RSS results on recently launched work search engines, which mostly parse the sites like Monster.com and Yahoo! HotJobs, scraping the results into their database. You can mostly subscribe to the searches, not to the feed of jobs directly (since for national searches probably wouldn’t do you much good).
RSS search results is supported by:
http://www.indeed.com/
http://www.workzoo.com/
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com
Not supported:
http://www.simplyhired.com/
The practicality of job searches as RSS feeds is pretty good for both active and passive job seekers. Adding a feed to My Yahoo! or local RSS aggregator can always provide pointers when a new job arrives.
April 8th, 2005 at 12:28 am #Dave McClure
hi Alex -
we should have email alerts & RSS feeds done by end of the month / early next month; you’re correct we don’t have them yet.
we just launched about 3 weeks ago, and we thought we’d rather get our site out there & get some feedback from folks, rather than wait until we had more features. however, those are pretty important and we’re working on them… along with a few other cool things we hope people will like.
(thanks for the observation — i’ll fwd to the product team
- dave mcclure
http://www.simplyhired.com