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Job spider: automatic vacancies scraping from Employer
websites / ATSes and bulk posting to your job board.
Web spider: any info grabbing from online sources
Jobs spidered from source websites are not alway a perfect fit for your job board niche. SpiderMount Job Spider solves the issue by adding must have / must not have filtering criteria for job parsing. So not all of the jobs downloaded from employer site would get to your jobs database.
Any job field parsed can be automatically checked so only relevant jobs are then posted to your job board.
Example: filtering criteria configuration for job title
Once you have configured your scraping algorithm, run the test task to spider the jobs pages HTML:
Once the task is complete: review log and resulting File List
File List holds scraping session result: HTML files of the jobs allocated
Resulting HTML files are ready for parsing and posting to your job board.
Job Board owners are now offered 2 more purchase options in addition to ASP/hosted Job Spider service:
1. Encrypted copy purchase:
One off fee to buy the software, have it installed on your server and serve any amount of your job boards and source websites. Single server license. Free 6 months of upgrades.
2. Open Source
Great option for those wishing to use Job Spider engine and add up features, integrate with other systems.
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Some career sites would require you to fill out a job search form to retrieve required vacancies.
Here is a preview of one of the implementations:
Job Spider scraping configuration example:
Target sector fields to fill out (part of the search form):
Spider configurations for form elements choices:
Job Board owners are currently offered 2 options of publishing jobs to their websites:
1. Job Board XML interface
Your job board has Broadbean or other XML posting interface.
Job spider is configured to match your job / XML format:
Example of the source job and parsed content passed via XML:
2. CSV file (MS Excel spreadsheet)
Your job board can have the jobs uploaded via CSV format.
SpiderMount saves the jobs downloaded into a CSV spreadsheet. It can be then uploaded to your job board.
SpiderMount will help you configure your first recipient job board and the first source website (employer career center) at no charge.
Spider configuration usually takes:
1-2 hours for recipient job board (based on types and number of the fields in job entity).
2-4 hours for source website (based on complexity of html, search criteria and matching of the parsed content to your job fields).