I get the intention of all these these scrapers-type comparison/search sites, and all the best with the venture - having had a quick look things are very tidy a

I get the intention of all these these scrapers-type comparison/search sites, and all the best with the venture - having had a quick look things are very tidy and well organised, but I always feel they miss the root cause of their existence; wouldn't it be much better to develop a central site with a client API so that all these diverse organisations can submit their job apps straight into the mix? Establishing harmony among competitive organisations can be difficult - but these are all tech/design companies so they should 'get it' to some degree, and it's not as if they are giving away secrets - a centralised, standardised portal would just make life much easier to engage with talent - especially if there's a standardised application form instead of a mess of different online/word versions all wanting the same information but in different order or structure - that drove me mad when I was job hunting a few months back; I suppose it indicates commitment making someone slog through 'yet another' document format, but spending 4+ hours on 4 different applications, with multiple cuts and pastes AND dealing with fill-in lines created using rows of underscores (aargh!) is soul destroying. There's also the implication that one should print, fill-in, scan to PDF and email back but..seriously!? If anything needs 'disrupting' its online job applications - I know there are a few sites that handle such things, but most of the ones I have seen belong to specific sectors (public health, military etc.) or just one large company. Wired Sussex is an example of progress in this respect: http://www.wiredsussex.com/ http://www.wiredsussex.com/ Perhaps phase #2 could be to get all the target companies to agree you can host a standard application form that users could pre-populate and save to use as a template for specific job applications, tweaking things here and there as needed to highlight specific skills (or let users build a custom submission from pre-saved building blocks). It would really save a lot of time. ..anyway, good luck!