job-listing-brainstorming

Job Listing Brainstorming

Ideas for a possible job-listing microformat.

Fields from examples

(see the job-listing-examples)

property	xhtml-element	description	major/minor (+/-) priority
title	h#	title of the job, e.g. 'Project-Manager for Customer-Service-Project'	+
description	class	job-description	+
company	hcard		+
company size	class		+
company logo	class		-
multimedia	class		-
location	adr		+
start & end date	dtstart & dtend	:or should we use dstart for the date the ad is posted, and dtend for the closing date for aplications?	+
contract)	class		+
part time|temporary| temp to hire|seasonal|internship)	class		+
hours/week	class		+
salary base	class (see currency)		+
salary max	class (see currency)		+
wage/hour	class (see currency)		+
education	class
certification	class
years	class
required	class
skill	class	management can fall under skill
years	class
required	class
benefit	class
holiday allowance		expressed in days or weeks?
contact	hcard
time posted	date-time	(is this dtstart? See above)
relocation covered	class
job function	class	(if absent, fall back to title?)
travel required	class
industry		tag on company?
language of job-listing	class @lang on containing element (or use page's language)
job-language	class	mainlanguage spoken with colleagues
applicationmaterial	class	e.g. cv, worksamples, licenses, greencard
organisationalid	class	number or phrase - large enterprises have an unique id for a specific job offer
applicationurl	class	Some companies require applicants to fill out application forms online

Filip Chereches-Tosa

• Maybe there's no need to have a dedicated microformat for jobs and we could somehow extend the hListing proposal, by adding the following optional fields under description:
  • salary
  • education
  • skills
  • type

Filip C.T.E.

Andy Mabbett

"job-listing" is clunky, would "vacancy" be a better name?

• I second the change of name to "Vacancy". - ntoll
  • I disagree, "vacancy" has no context. It could refer to anything - eg "hotel vacancy". - Quint
    • In which case, "job-vacancy" or just "job"? Andy Mabbett
  • Is there any reason to differentiate "job" from availability, vacancy, or requisition? Robert Cooksey
    • Couldn't one just use "job" or "opportunity" and use other attributes to define the type of job/opportunity
      • For instance: contract, submission, full-time, part-time, etc.
    • Also, the word "available" seems more flexible should one want to allow for just an expression that expresses openness without too much specificity

Christian Pfetzing

What about "job-offer"? Reason: People with low english-skills often know "offer" but not "vacancy". On the other hand: Why not easily "job"? With an attribute you can specify if it is a "job-offer" or a "job-application". So human beeings/job-platforms can easily compare "offers" and "applications". Manually (humans) or automatic (machines) -- Christian 05:48, 28 Apr 2007 (PDT)

Darren Bounds

Keep in mind the internationally recognized term in the ATS industry is "requisition". This is also defined in the HRXML specification.

While I believe other non-standard options should be considered, it does not appear as though the hResume specification gave any consideration to HRXML, which does have a large adoption for backend transations regarding HR data (including resumes and requisitions).

• While this makes perfect sense from a specialist's back-end view, I'm not sure that I would ever look for a requisition (actually positive that I wouldn't) Robert Cooksey
  • Is there another word than job or requisition that captures all of each and is used in common parlance?
    • Employment?

See also

• Joined Up Jobs (job syndication initiative in UK local government)
• currency - proposed microformat for marking-up amounts of money (for salary, wage, payment, earnings)