Jobs Sites are fairly straight forward web sites. Not as simple as a pure presentation “shop window” web sites, but there is not that much to it.
Three basic types of registered users:
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Employers
Job Seekers
Job Board Admin
There is also a very small number of pages:
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Home
Search
Advanced Search
Search Results
Full job description
Application form
About / Contact
A few more admin pages in the back end of the job site and that is all you really need to get going. Later on you might ad a page for Company Profiles, Quotes, or similar Jada-jada required for the search engine optimization purposes. You might disguise it under eh title Career Resources, or something sounding equally smart.
Any web development company can do it fairly quickly, and if you stick to those basics, it will not cost you an arm end leg. Outsourcing the development to India will save you quite some money as well. And this is the reason we had more than 20 new job sites in Ireland launched in the same year 2007. Imagine 20 new job sites in the market that to anyone in the industry seams overcrowded.
There is only one problem with the job sites, and that is that they are more often than not built so that they store the CV’s of the candidates. This enables the job board owners to sell access to the CV databases. Holding onto CVs online requires a tough security, and if you have been cutting corners while developing your web site, it might not be there. The end results are that job hunters private data gets exposed. Sometimes their application history and sometimes even the full CVs find their way to the web.
Yes we did contact Karl to let him know and he pached the security hole quickly.
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It’s a public marketplace where you can browse candidates, depending on the personal privacy settings of the candidates. Some have made their resume viewable by other candidates; some have strict privacy settings so only employers can see the resume after the candidate has granted permission.
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Jenila