Comments on: hotjobs dumps ‘date order’ for job search results

By: Job Search

Job Search — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:46:08 +0000

I totally agree with the fact that Relevance, Engagement, Availability and Location are important but time is also a key factor in job search because we cant look for a job which is 60 days old eventhough it’s a relevant job. I encountered a website recently jobmixi.com which has all the functions mentioned above like availability, location, engagement, relevancy and more than all time. This job search engine not only indexes job boards but also company career pages.

By: Jim Bob

Jim Bob — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:52:09 +0000

Carey, it sounds like youre trying to make your company feel better for not having the ability to do what yahoo can. i mean, its a safe call that yahoo search engineers clearly understand and can implement this technology. We will see how this all plays out though… it sounds clever.

By: Carey

Carey — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 04:28:50 +0000

In much of our user research job ‘freshness’ is a factor in relevancy, as well as the content like salary, location, the employer and so on.

By eliminating ‘freshness’ from the relevancy ranking algorithms, Yahoo might be making the search results less relevant rather than more.

On the other hand, one might logically imagine that the older the job, the more desperate the advertiser, the more likely your application is to succeed.

By: William

William — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:18:42 +0000

It seems that Hotjobs (and boards in general) is late in adopting SEO-like strategies such as Indeed.

Of course going after the non-job seeker through making one’s website SE-friendly and niche content sites/blogs is more progressive any way.

Great coverage of this news, Cheez.

By: Chrisr

Chrisr — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:09:50 +0000

Interesting move. As a job board owner I have always seen two sides to this story. The older a job appears, the less applicants it gets. Job seekers don’t like older jobs. Employers like the fact that the latest jobs appear first. Perhaps we need to re-train job seekers that newer isn’t always better.