A new feature by Simply Hired was released today that will help the job search engine target spam jobs.
“Flag this Job” allows job seekers to point out listings that are potentially fraudulent. Throughout the search results pages, users will see a new icon under each job listing labeled “Flag.” Users may flag a job by clicking the icon below the job listing and choosing the reason they are flagging the job.
A job posting can be flagged for a number of reasons: it looks like a scam/spam posting, the job is expired, the link to the posting is broken, or it is a duplicate listing. The job listing will not be automatically removed from the job search results, but will be marked as flagged and reported to Simply Hired’s data quality team.
“While scam and spam jobs represent only one tenth of one percent of the three million postings on SimplyHired.com, we have zero tolerance for them,” said Tejas Saraiya, Director of Marketing and Products, Simply Hired. “Enabling the millions of job seekers on our site to flag inappropriate job listings helps us to improve job quality and remove scam and spam jobs from our site more quickly.”
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April 21st, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Simply Hired? Seriously? Who cares. Are these guys still in business? A neat idea that will not ever make a profit.
April 27th, 2009 at 10:35 am
This is a nice feature on the face of it, but it simply advertises the fact that fraudulent postings are being made, which could rebound on any job board using this tactic. If fraudulent jobs aren’t tolerated, why allow them to be posted in the first place? If any do make it through the filter, having a more discreet method of removal would be more beneficial to the whole industry.