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JobMigo.com, inspired from the ‘#rtjobs’ movement, is an application created to help people find and sort jobs using twitter. So what does Twitter have to do with finding a job? Twitter has also become a place where users have begun to post listings for job openings. There are many ways in which this is done in the “Twitterverse”. Some users are actually job portals, “tweeting” posts from their website for the benefit of anyone who is receiving the tweets.

One of these tags was especially of interest. #RTJOBS was a tag that was created especially for the ‘re-tweeting’ of posted jobs. This tag essentially solved the third reason for overload by allowing users to stay current by re-tweeting posts that were still relevant, and popular on Twitter. By tracking these posts we are also assuming that the community has some kind of valuable information to add relating to importance or relevance of the post simply by the action of tweeting that post.

There are plenty of search tools available to search for job related keywords in tweets. JobMigo doesn’t try to index all job related information on web, instead it tries to figure out which job posts are genuine and of real interest to people. Users can see which job post (posted url) was ‘the most discussed’ or ’shared’ among twitter users within a given time frame. Additionally, JobMigo enables users to search by date, locations and job types. It has some pretty smart logic to bookmark the final urls discussed in tweets along with a tagging of places (state, country) and job types.

JobMigo is an example for application of the text filtering and information processing tool, which is being developed right now. I’ll post more about the tool and its evolution soon.

Url: http://jobmigo.com
Follow Jobmigo on twitter: http://twitter.com/jobmigo

Team behind JobMigo.com: Anup Narkhede, Ebru Kivanc and Ranmini Perera.

Checking for non-existing images and replacing them by placeholders is simple when the images are handled on server (db/filestore). However, for externally linked images, we can do something like this using JQuery:

This script will replace the broken image urls with ‘/images/noimage.jpg’.