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by brettscott 4634 days ago
I'd just like to reiterate what timtamboy63 has already stated. There are an estimated 100,000 job boards around the world in various industries, sectors, cities and niches.

Each of these offer the ability to browse for skills/degrees.

For example, I just did a search for "graduate jobs australia" in Google and followed the top link to "www.seek.com.au/graduate-jobs/‎" where I was able to type in "engineering" and "bachelor of engineering" and saw a refined list of applicable opportunities.

In that above list, I'm presented with jobs that I would not have considered because the search was not job title based but degree based.

How do you differ from that experience?

I like the UI experience. You'll definitely need to consider a "location" field because Australia is a pretty big country!

Keep up the good work :)

1 comments

Great question and thanks for the feedback. For the most part, platforms like SEEK assume you know what you want to do. The rationale is that many graduate opportunities hire from a variety of degree disciplines which are not necessarily listed in job descriptions and go undiscovered by a lot of candidates who have never considered a particular option.

We only want one search result per industry or role in the primary search, not 20 "Engineering" and 2 others.

Keep the comments coming it's great feedback for us and we're taking it all on board.

Do you think job boards meet your needs currently or would you prefer to see something different on them?