Jobrate: A New Employment Portal

Jobrate is a new employment portal that while still in beta, totes its dynamic search as its competitive edge.

Unlike traditional job portals that are driven heavily on static job seeker input to show results, Jobrate shows potential job matches with every key word typed. As the Jobrate site tour explains, typing ‘de in n’ will give you jobs of Designer in New York and Web Designer in New York. The primary search has been set up in this fashion to speed up the job find process.

From an employer’s perspective, Jobrate offers a WYSIWYG style allowing employers to see their ad as they build it and any Webmaster looking to add content to their site will be able to do so via Jobrate’s XML Syndication Technology.

As the site is still its beta stages, employers are able to post jobs for free, but it is unclear how long this will remain a non-fee based listing portal.

In addition to the job search capability above, the site also enables job seekers to search jobs by the most viewed, most demanded and top location, via quick access links.

It is important to note however that the site does not allow for personalization features, such as ‘my account’ where job searches could be saved. Instead, they advertise the ‘email job posting’ functionality as a way for seekers to manage the listings they are interested in, as well as RSS subscriptions to relevant job listings.

Already the site has outlaid a few areas where fees could be initiated once officially launched and although they have added many features to improve the employment search functionality, their lack of personalization features could be their draw back.

Comments (1)

 

  1. Joborate says:
    December 30, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    Hi,

    We have just introduce a lot of new features, including:

    RESEARCH FOR EMPLOYERS

    Nothing is more valuable than understanding your potential employers. How about learning their educational backgrounds, social networks and hobbies BEFORE the interview? With Joborate, we’ll find as much information as possible for you. All you have to do is simply clicking the icons next to the employers’ email addresses!

    JOB AGGREGATION

    Our platform searches and imports quality IT jobs from different job portal websites. Visitors will be able to check out hundreds of jobs from different websites instantly!

    Thanks,
    Joborate Team

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