{"id":13,"date":"2009-05-28T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/?p=13"},"modified":"2024-10-18T22:34:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T02:34:27","slug":"job-sites-using-innovation-but-fight-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Job sites using Innovation but fight issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launching a new job site in this economy could be deemed as not profitable.&#160; Two new job sites aren\u2019t looking for profit (as of yet) but using innovation and technology.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splits.org\">Splits.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hashjobs.com\">Hash#Jobs<\/a> are two such sites.&#160; These are experimental job sites that leverage data aggregation of certain tags on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\">Twitter<\/a>.&#160; They will battle spam and \u201cfreshness\u201d as stated by this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheezhead.com\/2009\/05\/26\/hashjobs-twitter\/\">Cheezhead article<\/a>.&#160; The user experience in such cases will be the battle these two sites have to win though Hash#Jobs seems to have more of an uphill battle due to the use of a more general tag.&#160; Even though Hash#Jobs users are pre-approved, it doesn\u2019t guarantee \u201cfreshness\u201d but it may reduce spam.&#160; Splits.org shares the same battle.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>I use the word \u201cfreshness\u201d in relations to a job posting to define how up to date the job information is and active the job poster is too.&#160; This is a term that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dayak.com\">Dayak<\/a> defined over a year ago to make the lives of its recruiters easier.&#160; We would send email notifications to a job poster when a job has not had any \u201cactivity\u201d for a pre-defined duration.&#160; If a job goes through the reminder process with no new activity or no action from the job poster to confirm that the job is still active, Dayak closes the job posting.&#160; This keeps jobs \u201cfresh\u201d.&#160; The project was fondly called \u201cBad Job Filter\u201d.&#160; As time evolved, the project has gone through fine tuning but still remains a key part of ensuring job \u201cfreshness\u201d, though we do throttle it now and again.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Combining this \u201cfreshness\u201d concept with the aggregation concepts above, could provide to be powerful, but would have challenges on its own.&#160; I hope ideas such as these do well and new ones keep popping up.&#160; Its Re-\u201cFreshing\u201d to come across such concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching a new job site in this economy could be deemed as not profitable.&#160; Two new job sites aren\u2019t looking for profit (as of yet) but using innovation and technology.&#160; Splits.org and Hash#Jobs are two such sites.&#160; These are experimental job sites that leverage data aggregation of certain tags on Twitter.&#160; They will battle spam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[10,11,9,7,37,36,8],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recruiting","category-startup-technology","category-technology","tag-aggregation","tag-dayak","tag-innovation","tag-job-site","tag-recruiting","tag-technology","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jouhal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}