The goal of the site is to make it easier for people to find jobs at worker co-ops and to help worker co-ops recruit by being able to search CVs. We found that while there exists niche job sites for other sectors of the economy, there wasn’t a place where people can easily look for jobs in the democratic economy. I’ve populated the site with some jobs in the UK and North America, and if your co-op has any vacancies please do add them.
When I select a closing date, it comes up as “15S April 2019” in the text box - hope that came through correctly?
Bit confusing; the label says “Job Application Email” but the hint says “URL or Email”. I put in a URL - because we don’t accept applications by email - but I couldn’t see that in the preview, so I wasn’t sure that totally worked.
Schema.org is great for SEO, so that’s cool. But for someone else to use that data, they would then have to effectively write a website scraper.
I was more thinking a straight JSON dump, or something like that? It would make the data easier to re-use and be easier on your website traffic! I don’t know if there are any existing standards for job listings data and to be clear I don’t have any plans to re-use the data myself straight away, just asking out of general interest.
I see so many job listings sites that effectively are data silos, and having just run a hiring process I can tell you they are a pain to deal with, repeatedly posting the some job over and over again in different enough forms that each one takes effort (Sorry! I would just love to see a job board with an import option!). So it would be great if the co-op way could be different.
I can also tell you people really want to work in co-ops! So I’m very happy to see the site, hope it does well.