Using Rss To Let Jobs Come To You

Give a man a fish
and you feed him
for a day…
Teach a man to fish,
and you feed him
for life.

And that’s just the same for job hunting…

In fact don’t hunt…let the jobs come to you!

Does this sound familiar?
You have bookmarked all your favourite job websites and religiously visit
them each week in the hope that THE job has been posted…only to get there
to find that there are no new postings.
Just how much time exactly do you waste on this exercise each week?
Surely there must be a better way??

Or you might have signed up and requested an email update from all of your
favourite job websites. Makes life easier, right…er wrong! Not when you have
362 unread emails in your inbox, how is one email, with THE job somewhere
contained in a list of 20 other jobs in that email ever going to jump out and
grab you? And, oh did I mention the tsunami of spam that this might now be
generating ;-(

There is an easier way…it’s the RSS way…a clue is in the top right corner.

wayne robinson, inovolve…knowledge that works for you

RSS?
What is RSS?
RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs/blogs and other
online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from
the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to
join each site's email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News.

What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed? RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use.

A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac),
FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers
available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.

Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your
Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available

Visit here for more information on RSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS


So what’s RSS to do with job hunting?

By finding the sites that offer RSS feeds you can run a search for THE job
and every time do you a search, a specific RSS feed is generated. Just grab
that feed and add it to your feed reader, and then every time there is an
update that matches your search, the update appears in your feed reader i.e.

- the jobs come to you, automatically
- updates happen in real time, not once a week
- each job is visible and not embedded and lost in an email
- no spam…ever
- you receive details before they come out in email format
Sounding more like an easier way to search for jobs? Then let me show you
just how easy this is to set up…


For this example I am going to be
using the Google Reader as everyone
on the planet knows what Google is
and where to find it. And it’s free ;-)

This process will work whether you are
running Windows or Apple Mac.

Go to www.google.co.uk
and click on the “more” link

Click on the “Reader” link


Use your Gmail email
to sign in

Or use your existing email
to create an account


And you are then taken through to the home page of the
Google Reader…we now need to feed it


Step 1. Go to one of your job websites, here we have gone to
totaljobs.com and run a search, we have set up a search for a
permanent sales director role covering all salaries.

Tip: the more specific you are in
your search means less junk
i.e. un-wanted roles, coming
through in the RSS feed!


Step 2. Don’t’ start clicking on the jobs that the search has returned
just yet, there will be time for that in a moment…click on the RSS
symbol at the top of the search.

Click HERE


Step 3. And this box opens up in a separate window. Copy the text
and then close the box.

Highlight all the text in
this box and copy, make sure
you copy to the end of
all the text!


Step 4. Click on “Add Subscription”
and paste the text into the box
that opens up

Step 5. Click on “Add “ and let
the Reader do it’s magic…


Step 6. A list of all the jobs that the search result returned now
appears in your Reader. Scan the headlines to find what you want.


One click opens up to reveal more
information, clicking on the headline
takes you to the recruiters website


You can now apply for the job, check to see if it’s new a website
and if they have an RSS feed!


Being a good networker you can even send emails to your friends
of jobs that you have found that they might be interested in.


You now need to be vigilant for the RSS feed every-time you visit a
website…here is another example at monster.co.uk…spotted the
RSS link yet?


Here we see the feed from the monster.co.uk website appearing in
our Reader


Of course RSS feeds are not just for jobs…have some
fun too and stay up to date with news items for
example. Here we have the bbc.co.uk sports page
captured as an RSS feed in our Reader.


I hope you have found this useful,
feel free to connect with me if you
need any help or information,
you can find me at
www.linkedin.com/in/inovolve

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