The ability to search and be constantly fed updates on the search results as they are published is one of the most powerful (and probably most under-utilised) aspects of RSS. I have long held that there is a natural fit between this functionality and the likes of recruitment companies, auctioneers, travel agents, etc.
Imagine the scenario – you are thinking of looking for a new job but you want it to be near where you live now, you want it to be related to what you do now and you want it to pay at least what you earn now. With a decent job search engine, you plug in these details and hopefully find something. If not, you check back again the following week, or whenever you remember.
However, if that job site allows you to subscribe to the search results, you simply copy the feed to your RSS reader and sit back and await that perfect job to arrive!
IrishDev.com contacted me today to alert me to the fact that they have rolled out the ability to subscribe to searches in their job search engine. I took a look at their job search and although it is extremely basic in functionality it is IT focussed and it does allow you to subscribe to the results. I think this is a first for job search in Ireland.
The king of rss job search is Indeed.com – unfortunately they are US based. The main Irish job search engines are irishjobs.ie and recruitireland.com – neither of which offers the ability to subscribe to search results.
So, for now, the IrishDev.com job search has first mover advantage in the Irish IT job search field. What do they need to do now? Well, if they expand the search functionality and the jobs database they could quickly own IT job search in Ireland.
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Got a mail about this earlier too. I’m impressed. It’s exactly what I was looking for in a job site. Pity there doesn’t seem to be any graduate jobs there…
I set this up a while back for graphic and web design using the feed43.com service.
I am waiting for a bit of time to combine them into one feed and also display them on the one page.
Web and design jobs: http://www.spoilt.ie/2006/04/17/design-job-search-feeds
Web and design tenders: http://www.spoilt.ie/2006/04/17/design-projects-for-tender
Alan – apologies, I was unaware of your service – well done!
Hardly a service yet, but hopefully soon
I think you guys are missing out on the most innovative service in this area that i thought more people knew about but maybe not.
dole.ie not only supplies RSS feeds for searches but also searched most of the top jobs sites in ireland.
I posted about it back in March.
I haven’t a need to search for jobs myself but I’d everyone looking for a job would use this.
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Noticed today that RecruitIreand.com now offers rss for its search results.
Have you, guys, heard of Jobrapido ? It’s Europe based jobs search engine present in Ireland, UK and other countries.
Job vacancies in Ireland
Job vacancies in UK
Job vacancies in Germany
You can search through the vacancies posted on most of the Irish job boards I know. Although they dont provide RSS feed, there is a Jobletter which arrives almost everyday. I find it pretty useful.
Hello all,
You have also http://www.bigfish.ie
It is one of the fastest growing recruitment companies in Ireland, specialized in the construction industry.
They currently have over 1,000 live vacancies on their website.
Could be relevant for some of you
Hope it will be helpful.
Cheers
Caroline
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…neither of which offers the ability to subscribe to search results.
EmployIreland.ie does let you subscribe to the search results:
http://www.employireland.ie/EmployIreland/Pages/JobFeed.aspx?keywords=&jobcategoryname=IT&joblocationname=Dublin South
Hi everybody!
I also know a really good website to find jobs :
http://www.jobfinder.ie
JobFinder.ie brings together all the jobs from the major recruitment agencies in Ireland. No need to crawl from site to site.
This website have been really useful for me. I advice to everyone.
Good luck for your search!
Cheers,
Elise
Hi everybody,
I have found a new job website http://www.thejob.ie.
Here you can find jobs in call centre, shops, admin, hotels & restaurants, babysitting. Most of the positions are for junior profiles.
Only companies can put their vacancies… no agencies!
Best of luck in your search
Tony