Hello everyone,
I\'m going to start extending JS Jobs this evening (after I receive my Y! API key). Stage 1 of the development will allow Admins to import jobs (by category, keyword, location, or a combo thereof) from YahoO! Hot Jobs.
Stage 2 will consists of JS Jobs Admins being able to push UNIQUE jobs back to Yahoo! Hot Jobs API (creating backlinks, as well as, creating an additional revenue stream for Webmasters).
Stage 3 will may take me a lil\' while (which is why I would like help (eg. Ahmad
)). Stage 3 will allow Admins to push / pull resumes from Yahoo! Hot Jobs.
Stage 4 will allow Employers to pull resumes from Yahoo! Hot Jobs and search through them while on your site. When an employer pulls a resume from Y!, it will be parsed and stored in your DB in order to eliminate duplicate requests and minimize server load.
Stage 5 will allow your end-users (Job Seekers) to push their resume out to resume aggregators (if they choose to).
So, to recap, the extended version (which will consist of several core hack to JS Jobs until I\'m finished and submit them to Ahmad for his review) will have a wide variety of features to help Job Site Admins.
1) Request jobs from Yahoo! Hot Jobs Basic / Advanced Search to be stored in local DB (w/ your Y! affiliate code dynamically put into all links for affiliate tracking).
2) Push unique jobs (jobs that YOUR employers have posted) to \"job site\" aggregators (eg. Yahoo!, Simply Hired, Indeed).
3) Push / Pull Resumes to/from \"resume site\" aggregators.
Also, it would be tits if we could make it so that RSS was implemented, as well. This would allow \"job site\" aggregators to easily index job listings / resumes.
Unfortunately, this project could be rather time consuming by myself, so I would truly appreciate any help that other devs / users / testers would be willing to contribute.
If you do not know PHP, etc... Don\'t worry, we\'ll still need testers.
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While I\'m developing this aspect, if someone else wanted to work on ACL instead... Well, shoots... I\'ll get this ball rolling if you get a proper ACL implemtation working for JS Jobs.
Currently, I am using AEC and User Groups to separate my Employers / Job Seekers, and to prevent them from having to choose \"their role\" after registering (which is a lil\' ridiculous IMHO).
If someone wanted to develop something similar to the AEC / ACL implementation being used in Template Plazza\'s, Job Plazza extension... Well, that would be heavenly (or, Samadhi / Nirvana / Bliss (your choice)).
Send PM or reply to thread if you are interested in any of the above. Please do note which parts you find most interesting, so that I can prioritize our agenda (I need all of the above mentioned functionality and I\'m not too stressed for time, so let me know what features you want done first and I\'ll try to post some ETAs).
Peace, Love and Aloha,