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Re:Weekend proj: Job aggregator/filter for Big 4 by dabent on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @01:29PM (#1232440)
Very cool idea. I've long wanted something that gets me to the employer directly, rather than routing me through a recruiter. One failing of most sites is the sheer number of recruiter ads I've seen. Want to disrupt? Get rid of the middleman.

I've noticed that companies often list their postings though a third-party site like taleo.net or apply2jobs.com (two I found by clicking on your site). Those sites also make it hard (probably intentionally) to get to the actual job listings from what I've seen, probably to prevent scraping.

How do you manage to get those listings you your site? Are you pulling a feed, polling the sites, or something else?

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Re:Weekend proj: Job aggregator/filter for Big 4 by empire29 on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @01:44PM (#1232495)
agreed - the big 4 job market is RIDDLED with generally useless recruiters. KPMG and EY i believe use 3rd parties (taleo and apply2jobs) to power their internal job list and they are by and large horribley user-unfriendly (which is why i made the site in the first place).

I got listing by polling the sites and each site needed a custom solution to pull the data down. Creating the mechanisms for grabbing jobs from each site took 80% of the total dev time.

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