In an ideal world, employers would publish their RSS job feeds that would contain the detailed job descriptions that we could easily process and make them available for searching.
In the real world, however, jobs are posted in a variety of ways on the internet. Many employers post their jobs in PDF format as well. A few days ago, one of our users reported that one of the employers whose jobs are normally included in our results did not have any of the jobs in our job results. And sure enough, this employer-Whitby Mental Health center- had switched from normal web page format to PDF format for job postings.
Our aim at
Wowjobs is to make Wowjobs the only place where you need to go for job search in Canada. With that goal in mind, we are pleased to announce the inclusion of jobs posted in PDF format from hundreds of employers across Canada. We'll be very quickly adding more sites that have jobs posted in PDF format. Some of the biggest employers whose jobs we have indexed include
Nunavut Government,
BC Provincial Health Authority and of course, the
Whitby Mental Health Center. This is a new feature so there could be a few glitches. Please keep all the wonderful suggestions coming in.
Labels: new features, pdf job postings