{"id":180,"date":"2003-06-20T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/06\/20\/rss-for-job-postings\/"},"modified":"2003-06-20T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2003-06-20T17:21:18","slug":"rss-for-job-postings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/06\/20\/rss-for-job-postings\/","title":{"rendered":"RSS for Job Postings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Bray’s recent piece RSS: Promise and Peril<\/a> lists a number of potentail applications for RSS. Here’s another one that’s a bit of a personal crusade – job postings!<\/p>\n

Is this not obvious to anyone else? Well apparently not to most HR departments, many of the ones I have to deal with will not accept anything but hand delivered paper resumes and only got dragged kicking and screaming on to the net a few years back! Maybe it just seems obvious to me as I spend more time now looking at potential employers’ job openings sites. But wouldn’t it be pretty straightforward at the bottom of your (regularly refreshed on a chronological basis, hint hint) job postings page to place a link to an RSS feed? Not only could it then be aggregated together with other postings at more central sites, but individual job seekers who are specifically interested in *your<\/em><\/strong>* company, as opposed to just any old company, could actively be pushed potential openings. You’d think reaching people who are already interested in your firm might be a good thing. But perhpas I simply don’t understand the hiring game well enough. – SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Bray’s recent piece RSS: Promise and Peril lists a number of potentail applications for RSS. Here’s another one that’s a bit of a personal crusade – job postings! Is this not obvious to anyone else? Well apparently not to most HR departments, many of the ones I have to deal with will not accept anything but … Continue reading “RSS for Job Postings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}