I find myself in the position where I need to find a way to get job listings from someone else's system into my own. I don't control the other system, but I'll be collaborating with their developers to figure out how this will work. I've already done some theoretical work in this direction (no code yet), but before I get too deep, I want to make sure that I'm not reinventing too many wheels. To that end… Is anyone aware of a standardized format in XML (or similar) for job listings? Searching the internet for such a thing has not had any promising results so far. Is anyone aware of a standard for doing RESTful queries (or similar) of job listings? For my own needs, this can probably be pretty basic (maybe "return an updated listing for this UUID if its ETag is different than this" or "tell me all listings posted since this timestamp"), but if there were something more complex available, that'd be cool too. Failing the above two points, is there anyone or anywhere that would be interested in collaborating on working on such standards?

Reputation: 2841

Job listing specification and/or query standards?

I find myself in the position where I need to find a way to get job listings from someone else's system into my own. I don't control the other system, but I'll be collaborating with their developers to figure out how this will work. I've already done some theoretical work in this direction (no code yet), but before I get too deep, I want to make sure that I'm not reinventing too many wheels. To that end…

Is anyone aware of a standardized format in XML (or similar) for job listings? Searching the internet for such a thing has not had any promising results so far.
Is anyone aware of a standard for doing RESTful queries (or similar) of job listings? For my own needs, this can probably be pretty basic (maybe "return an updated listing for this UUID if its ETag is different than this" or "tell me all listings posted since this timestamp"), but if there were something more complex available, that'd be cool too.
Failing the above two points, is there anyone or anywhere that would be interested in collaborating on working on such standards?

Upvotes: 3

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17xande

Reputation: 2813

I found this standards group called HR-XML that is at least trying to implement some sort of standards for various HR related activities.

One of our integrations applies their CV/Resume standard which seems to be a bit more common.

Based on this diagram on their site, it seems their Recruiting standards section also applies to job boards. The double arrow seems to indicate that they include standards for posting jobs as well as receiving CV/Resumes, but unfortunately it seems that you need to be a member of the standards group to be able to see it. I'm not sure how that promotes their standards.

Upvotes: 1

fumanchu

Reputation: 14559

The closest thing to a standardized format would be Atom. They're time-sensitive enough that a feed model is probably the best way to go (and the most standardized, to boot). I would certainly only be interested in consuming such a service that way (perhaps after one HTML form to set up the feed query).

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Job listing specification and/or query standards?

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