Using RSS Feeds for Job Search

Posted by Praneeth Patlola | Filed under jobsearch, rssfeeds

It is quite tiresome to go to each of the portals and keep yourself updated with the new listings. One alternative would be to get registered and subscribe email updates. Talking to many users we find that this is quite furstrating to users when they receive requirements into their inbox along with their other personal and professional communications. Users many a times tend to create and maintain emailid’s for just the purpose of getting emails from these portals. 

Here is a small solution for this. Most of the website which follow the standards of web2.0 implement RSS feeds for the user search criteria. Users can add and manage these RSS feeds using their GoogleReader, desktop email client (which pushes all the RSS updates into sepcified folders) and so on.

One advantage of this is to track down all the updates on daily basis. You can cut down your timespent on browsing requirements across internet by almost 90% compared to the current search on portals.  The biggest pain point we have seen is to search across the jobs in craigslist but as good they are, it does have RSS feeds. We have compiled the the subscriptions into based on keywords (developer, admin, lead, manager etc..). 

Below are the shared links out of our google reader subscriptions:

Craigslist
DevBistro
Dice
hotjobs 
indeed
monster
net-temps

You can create your own subscriptions by pulling in the RSS feed link out of specific portal. However, the craiglist subscription is going to be tiresome if you are planning to have a feeds searching all the cities. We have created the same for you. 

Here is a file which you need to save as .xml and import into your google reader to get the pre-compiled subscriptions:

GoogleReader OPML_file for rss feeds from job portals

Unfortunately, we could not get the same for some portals like careerbuilder.com and corp-corp.com as they are quite not a web2.0 portals.

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Permalink | April 21st, 2009

2 Responses to “Using RSS Feeds for Job Search”

  1. Alex Gordon Says:
    April 3rd, 2010 at 3:25 am

    Да, верно….

    Talking to many users we find that this is quite furstrating to users when they receive requirements into their inbox along with their other personal […….

  2. Kylie Batt Says:
    April 20th, 2010 at 11:51 pm

    В этом что-то есть и мне кажется это отличная идея. Полностью с Вами соглашусь….

    Talking to many users we find that this is quite furstrating to users when they receive requirements into their inbox along with their other personal […….

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