[BrianOnHN]

Google for Jobs. It's the job board killer.

I've been operating niche job boards for a decade, starting with angularjobs.com (for Angular developers).

Before this, the job ad aggregators (Indeed, Zip recruiter, Talent, Talroo, and LinkedIn) were probably* the best bet.

IMO, Google expects a return to business websites posting their jobs on their own domain[1]. This way, they can take all the job-ad $$$, too.

*99.99% of jobs on most job boards come from these sources, as "backfill". The ones that don't use the job ads (and often brag about it) are just paying other companies to scrape the same jobs from the company webpages so that the "job board" outranks them in SEO, and use that "advantage" to sell premium listings. When I was working on ETL with these sources, combined there were ~10MM unique job postings in the US (late 2020).

Edit: I wanted to add, be wary of job boards that pop up to fill this void. Anyone can create a job board in 2 minutes with Jobboard.io. However, building an audience, especially one that is worth advertising to, doesn't happen as quickly.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...

Thanks for the down votes. Would love to know which part of my anecdote was so offensive to you, though!

[Oras]

You had downvotes? Why?

Google are doing pretty good things when it comes to jobs to improve candidates' experience. Of course at the end all these features are to increase their ads revenue, but isn't that the goal for any business?

Here are some quick points about Google for jobs:

1. You can view jobs from different sources at one place.

2. Google is highlighting the benefits (US Only right now).

3. Google is *claiming* to filter out the bad job descriptions. I said claiming because I can still see some bad ones.

4. Directly apply feature. They will highlight the website where you can actually apply directly instead of being redirected.

5. Removing expired jobs based on validation date so candidates do not see expired jobs.

I wrote a blog post about the new Google for jobs algorithm back in October:

https://jobdescription.ai/blog/google-for-jobs-new-algorithm...

[BrianOnHN]

> You had downvotes? Why?

OP has 1 point. Had 0.

Maybe people read the OP as anti-G?

That said, I agree with your sentiment. It's a natural evolution of the market at this point. And it should've happened years ago. The other players aren't as good at limiting the spam because it's a cash-cow. If Google could stop the spam, then they should offer ads now. It would be good for workers. And companies will undoubtedly spend more money with Google than they do at the much less reputable alternatives.

[whimsicalism]

at least as a dev, i find google jobs to be useless. linkedin is the only game in town

[truffdog]

jobs.google.com?

[BrianOnHN]

Yeah, but the actual search results aren't on that subdomain, try [1]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=jobs+near+me#fpstate=tlexp&h...