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by Oras 1566 days ago
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...

2 comments

> 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.

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