{"id":394,"date":"2018-09-11T04:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T09:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.propellum.com\/blog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2019-08-10T04:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T10:23:26","slug":"the-role-of-an-xml-job-feed-in-making-a-job-board-a-job-aggregator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.propellum.com\/blog\/the-role-of-an-xml-job-feed-in-making-a-job-board-a-job-aggregator\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of an XML job feed in making a job board, a job aggregator"},"content":{"rendered":"

With globalization setting in, it is essential for companies to expand their business activities across the world to stay ahead in the competition. Employing candidates from different parts of the world also contributes to keeping up with this race by bringing diverse skill sets on the table. Organizations, to run smoothly, must employ a diverse and talented workforce to drive the company towards its goals with creativity and competence. In such a bustling job market, servicing tools like job feed<\/a>, job aggregator<\/a>, or job boards are on the rise for their extensive outreach and promising results. However, we see the emergence of new businesses every day. New businesses open new job opportunities and refer to job boards to help them find the right candidates at the right time. As a result, it becomes cumbersome for job boards to maintain a dynamic and massive candidate database on their websites. Keeping track of the data becomes difficult, especially with all the minute details involved in a job posting. But, XML job feeds are helping job boards overcome this obstacle with the ease and simplicity in their structure and functioning. XML job feeds enable job syndication on any job-servicing platform, allowing a job board to accumulate more job data from different companies in an organized manner, and shape itself into a better job tool.<\/p>\n

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Job boards are the most sought-after tools today in the recruitment industry. By collating a list of vacant job posts across different organizations, job boards act as a bridge between the organization and candidate, during the initial stages of the recruitment. Companies register themselves with job boards to have their job listings posted on these boards. Thus, job boards acquire the job data, make it all ready and formatted to be published online, and play an important role in matching an employee to his future employer.<\/p>\n

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Job aggregators<\/a>, on the other hand, are called the Google for \u2018job search.\u2019 Aggregators scour the Internet for all the latest and new job openings in the market. Next, they collate a comprehensive list of job postings picked from several different job portals, giving a candidate a single-window job hunt solution. No wonder, job aggregators are considered the best solution for finding the latest vacancies in the market.<\/p>\n

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Optimizing job boa<\/strong>rds<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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We have reliable job boards today that assist companies and candidates in finding each other. These job websites have multiple job listings and databases, sourced from across the world. However, the processing carried out by a job board for matching a candidate and a company is not sufficient for today\u2019s demanding job market.<\/p>\n

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A lot of job boards miss out on harnessing the most critical job market insights. The policy of \u2018if you build it, they will come\u2019 doesn\u2019t work with job boards. You need to have all possible job postings on your platform to be able to make a mark in amongst your competitors. But unlike job aggregators, looking for jobs on other job boards doesn\u2019t go well with a job board\u2019s intrinsic work profile. It is here that tools like XML job feeds come into the picture to make a job board function as a job aggregator, making the board more scalable and reliable.<\/p>\n

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Using XML job feeds for job postings<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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XML job feeds are XML files that structure content in terms of specific tags or markups. Companies are using XML job feeds to document the data for a job posting in a sequential manner, ensuring that no vital information is left out. Structured documenting, extensible markups, self-defining tags, and easy coding rules make formatting and processing detail-oriented content, like that in a job listing, convenient with XML files.<\/p>\n

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Recognizing these advantages of XML job feeds over regular job listings, job boards have started providing either free or paid services to companies to integrate their XML job feeds with the job board.<\/p>\n

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Introducing XML job feeds in job boards<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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As mentioned earlier, XML job feeds are making the lives of job boards better by enhancing the index of job boards on search engines results, and by simplifying the work involved in handling multiple job entries simultaneously. Another important assistance that XML job feeds offer job boards is job syndication. XML job feeds make job boards work as a job aggregator, without losing its intrinsic characteristic of being a unique job listing platform:<\/p>\n

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