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Are you already in or are planning on moving to New Hampshire?

Will you need a job?

Please help me put together a job posting website. All I ask is for beta testers and for feedback.

Basic functionality is available in beta form at: http://beta.nhjobmarket.com

Please test and provide feedback on:

1. Registration functionality.
2. Logging in/logging out.
3. Posting a job.
4. Viewing jobs.
5. Site layout/useability.
6. Which features do you want me to work on next?
7. Were you able to break something? If so please provide instructions on how I can replicate the error.

Thanks.

Big pile of suggestions: for starters:
1. Edit profile.
2. Add business - category should include dropdown - didn't know what to put here.
3. Add job - location - should include dropdown
4. Job posting date
5 Ability to remove previous job posting
6. The look/feel should be similar to Monster/Dice etc. type job listings. In addition, should have at least one killer improvement to what's already out there.
7. Even though it's in beta, it should not have unprofessional postings on it (at least eventually).

Questions:
1. what language(s) / tools are you using?
2. Timeframe for "live" implementation?
3. Who's your web hoster? Why'd you select them? Serverbeach?

It's an interesting start.

Quote from: bIlluminati on September 05, 2005, 11:43:42 pm

Thanks for all the excellent suggestions. I think they were all on the plate anyways but now I will get those done sooner. I definitely have Monster.com open in another window to get ideas, but i'm trying to keep it as different as possible so as not to get sued :-) Also, the site layout will probably change before it goes live, what's there now is a template i got from http://www.oswd.org it looked nice but I would like something even simpler, i would like tabs at the top, etc.

The "unprofessional postings" were made by other people testing the system. Sorry about those.

After seeing those I actually started thinking how to prevent them. One solution would be to charge people a dollar per job post or for people who post jobs often have a membership fee. What do you think? I think it's cheap enough that people wouldn't mind but at the same time nobody would pay a dollar to post stupid stuff since they could do it in other websites for free. And of course this way I will get paid for my work

Quote from: bIlluminati on September 05, 2005, 11:43:42 pm

Questions:
1. what language(s) / tools are you using?

The server is Debian Linux.
I am using straight Python CGI, no complicated third-party frameworks.
SimpleTAL for templating.
PostgreSQL for storage and querying.
Psycopg2 for database adapter.
VIM is my text editor.
That's about it.

Quote from: bIlluminati on September 05, 2005, 11:43:42 pm

2. Timeframe for "live" implementation?

I'm hoping before my daughter is born next month because after she is born I'm not going to have as much time to work on the site. I have a day job too, so...

If not by then, than definitely before the end of the year.

My problem is that I don't have a project manager and I'm not a very organized person, so my mileage will vary from what I am usually able to accomplish at work with a project manager present.

Quote from: bIlluminati on September 05, 2005, 11:43:42 pm

3. Who's your web hoster? Why'd you select them? Serverbeach?

Because they were cheap and gave me full access to my dedicated server :-)

Thanks for asking,

Lex

It's been a while since my last update, but fear not I have been doing a lot of work. Most of it unfortunately has been under the hood stuff so it's not visible to the user. There have been a few user level features added though:

1. After regestering a message is displayed above the login form stating that the registration was successful. (per russellkanning request) Still working on the email being sent though.
2. A few changes have been made to the registration process, at the end of the join form it now asks if you will be "posting resumes/looking for jobs", "posting jobs/looking for resumes" or "both". This has the affect of reducing the amount of options you see on the screen after login. Having said that after implementing the feature I realized that it may confuse and prevent people from doing the things they want to get done (for example, if you want to post jobs and accidentally skip over that part of the form, you may be out of luck). I dono, i can be easily talked out of keeping that feature, this would also simplify the system. So what do you guys say? Keep it or get rid of it? I can explain my reasoning behind it more if there are questions. -- SO, MAKE SURE YOU SELECT "I will perform both tasks." WHEN CREATING AN ACCOUNT so that you can test all the features.
2. A "dashboard" has been added which shows the system from your perspective, jobs you have added, resumes you have created, etc. This is still under heavy development and only the sections "Resumes", "Businesses" and "Jobs" are somewhat functioning.
3. Businesses can be added, updated and deleted.
4. Jobs can be added, update and deleted. Your businesses also show up in the dropdown on the Jobs screen so you can attach a job to a business of yours.
5. Resumes can be added, edited (make sure you enter a start/end date in the form MM/DD/YYYY, otherwise it will blow up), deleted and published/unpublished. The idea behind publishing is that while you are working on your resume it is not searchable, once you publish it, it will show up in search results (this is actually working now). After adding a resume you can add work experiences (the other items, Education, Skills don't work yet). When performing a search on resumes only the JobTitle and Objective are currently searched but eventually you'll be able to search the work experiences and basically every other field associated with a resume. Resumes still have a very long way to go...
6. Find jobs, find people and find resumes are all working (one useful thing is that if you want to get a list of all items of each kind, click Search button without typing anything in the search box). For "find jobs" only title and description are searched. For "find people" only first name and last name are searched. For "find resumes" only jobtitle and objective are searched. This will definitely expand and hopefuly you will be able to search on all the fields. Another thing to note is that you can only search one keyword (if you type in two keywords it will treat it as a single keyword) this will also be resolved in my next update.

All user accounts have been removed since the last update. So everyone will have to rejoin.

Thanks,

Lex

Hi. Nice start. Nice clean look.

OK, here's my feedback:

When I didn't enter anything in the search box, and clicked Category box, nothing happened. Same when I did that for City.
If I put just the letter 'a' in the search box and hit Search Jobs, I get an error page.

On job listings, the Location:, Requirements:, and Contact: were all followed by emptiness. The Description has limited characters followed by 3 dots ... but no way to get to remaining text.

Posting a Resume section: I don't know how others are designed, the few I've seen look like regular resumes with name, job experience, address, phone, etc.
Yours has a text box for Title.
Another for Experience. Huh

What goes in here, a date range, '3 years' etc.
Then a text box for Type. Huh

I have no idea what goes in there.
Then comes Status. Another Huh

Then a large box for Objective.
Submit.
The resume section needs either work or explanation. Thanks.

Alright, the job board is starting to take shape finally.

You can now post and search for jobs pretty nicely. There is also a browse feature so you can find jobs by category and city without having to type anything.

Check it out and give me some feedback, the website is:

http://beta.nhjobmarket.com

Please note that this is just a demo and the jobs aren't necessarily valid.

Also, resumes don't work yet so posting and searching for them will fail.

I created a new account then got an error message when I tried to log out

Code:

/var/www/beta.fspjobs.com/index.py
13 form=cgi.FieldStorage()

14 context=getContext()

15 user=getSessionUser()

16

17 submit=form.getfirst("submit")

user undefined, getSessionUser = <function getSessionUser>
/var/www/beta.fspjobs.com/utils.py in getSessionUser()
40 if os.environ.has_key("HTTP_COOKIE"):

41 cookie=BaseCookie(os.environ["HTTP_COOKIE"])

42 guid=cookie['session'].value

43 return database.getOneObject('users', {'sessionid':guid})

44

guid undefined, cookie = <BaseCookie: >, ].value undefined

KeyError: 'session'
args = ('session',)

Then It crashed MIE

Quote from: sandm000 on November 03, 2005, 10:13:48 am

I created a new account then got an error message when I tried to log out
Then It crashed MIE

Do you have cookies turned off?

The site is now live but with limited capabilities (you can post and search jobs, but not resumse)... :-)

Once people start using it I will be a lot more motivated to keep developing it.

Please visit: http://nhjobmarket.com

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