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- can't search by location (searching for "new york" has many false positives and missing results) - need an option to flag a listing for incorrect information

by joshwa 16y ago

- can't search by location (searching for "new york" has many false positives and missing results) - need an option to flag a listing for incorrect information (e.g. http://www.dailymotion.com/us/about/jobs#ref05 http://www.dailymotion.com/us/about/jobs#ref05 comes up as being in Paris), job no longer available, etc - would be nice to see some indication of when a job was posted-- stale listings have less value.

cheriot 16y ago
Older listings don't necessarily provide less value. We have several that have been up for almost a year now because we never stop hiring. Recurring payments to keep a job posted, and marking those jobs that pay to be there, may work better.
- joshwa 16y ago
  In my experience, older listings are more likely to (in order of frequency): - point to 404s - already be filled, and nobody deleted the listing - have received a higher number of applicants over time, decreasing your chances - indicate an overly-picky employer (why is the position still not filled after 6 months?) Given that most job sites display listings in chronological order, your company should probably add fresh listings periodically anyways just to rank higher in searches.
  - agotterer 16y ago
    The index is updated daily. When it crawls if it notices a job is no longer listed it will pull it from the index. In theory every job on the site should always be available and listing on the company career page. The older ones will still work it's way to the bottom... Search is ordered by date discovered desc.
    - joshwa 16y ago
      Yeah, this was not a response to your site specifically, but to the parent poster and job sites as a whole.
  - cdr 16y ago
    Some people keep "job postings" up that never close because they are just collecting resumes rather than filling an open position. See justin.tv for instance. I guess that sort of ties into your #3.
agotterer 16y ago
Haven't actually added location search yet. Thats next. Its also really difficult to determine the location because I'm working with limited data. The idea was to use the headquarter data, especially since most startups don't have multiple locations. I will add the "discovery" date to give a bit better idea of when things were found. But my crawler removes jobs that are no longer listed, so the results should always be fresh within a day. Thanks for the feedback!
- huhtenberg 16y ago
  "Discovery" date is very useful for filtering out generic job postings that HR sometimes keeps up just to collect the resumes. Not sure if this is at all legal in the US, but in Canada this is a very common practice. With regards to the location uncertainty - better not show anything in this case. Until you said "headquarters" I didn't even bother to look at the name of the column and assumed it was the location of the actual position. Also the information on your site is not meant for pleasure reading, it is meant for scanning. As such the list needs to be much more compact. I'd take the logotypes out, reduce the line-height as well as the width of the table.

by joshwa 16y ago

cheriot 16y ago

Older listings don't necessarily provide less value. We have several that have been up for almost a year now because we never stop hiring. Recurring payments to keep a job posted, and marking those jobs that pay to be there, may work better.

joshwa 16y ago
In my experience, older listings are more likely to (in order of frequency): - point to 404s - already be filled, and nobody deleted the listing - have received a higher number of applicants over time, decreasing your chances - indicate an overly-picky employer (why is the position still not filled after 6 months?) Given that most job sites display listings in chronological order, your company should probably add fresh listings periodically anyways just to rank higher in searches.
- agotterer 16y ago
  The index is updated daily. When it crawls if it notices a job is no longer listed it will pull it from the index. In theory every job on the site should always be available and listing on the company career page. The older ones will still work it's way to the bottom... Search is ordered by date discovered desc.
  - joshwa 16y ago
    Yeah, this was not a response to your site specifically, but to the parent poster and job sites as a whole.
- cdr 16y ago
  Some people keep "job postings" up that never close because they are just collecting resumes rather than filling an open position. See justin.tv for instance. I guess that sort of ties into your #3.

agotterer 16y ago

Haven't actually added location search yet. Thats next. Its also really difficult to determine the location because I'm working with limited data. The idea was to use the headquarter data, especially since most startups don't have multiple locations. I will add the "discovery" date to give a bit better idea of when things were found. But my crawler removes jobs that are no longer listed, so the results should always be fresh within a day. Thanks for the feedback!

huhtenberg 16y ago
"Discovery" date is very useful for filtering out generic job postings that HR sometimes keeps up just to collect the resumes. Not sure if this is at all legal in the US, but in Canada this is a very common practice. With regards to the location uncertainty - better not show anything in this case. Until you said "headquarters" I didn't even bother to look at the name of the column and assumed it was the location of the actual position. Also the information on your site is not meant for pleasure reading, it is meant for scanning. As such the list needs to be much more compact. I'd take the logotypes out, reduce the line-height as well as the width of the table.