JobSearchTools

By Jake Coughlin Last update Aug 14, 2008 — Installed 524 times.

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Modified the XPath expression which recognizes A elements in TABLEs of class "results".

 
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Updated to 1.0.4.

 
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I'VE SPENT 2 DAYS TINKERING ON THIS. IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING DANGEROUS BUT THEN AGAIN IT MAY NOT DO ANYTHING AT ALL FOR YOU. :-)

Description: www.careerbuilder.com provides you with page after page of job listings, but the descriptions are so freakin' vague that one
wastes a substantial amount of time re-reading the same job listings over and over and over. Also, it's easy to get yourself to "deep" in the process that you get lost on a tangential search (like
"software developer" vs "software engineer" vs "programmer" vs "application developer" vs "web developer" vs...

This script runs thru all of the job links on the page and extracts the identifier that the site uses to track/identify joblistings. Every link to a joblisting is modified to include a few "status"
icons. When you click on an icon (rather than the joblink), you toggle its status and the script makes a note of [career site, jobid, toggle-status]. So, the next time you load a
page from the same site and the script discovers a link to the same jobid, it sets the icons for that joblink appropriately.

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