hasgeek/hasjob

Hasjob, the Hasgeek job board

hasjob's Issues

Idea: let developers post their skills in a sticky

Just like the existing job board, allow developers post their skills in maybe 180 characters.
PS: i'm a developer, not a recruiter ;)

Limit how to apply field

Let posters choose between two options: email and URL. Wrap both types of links to count clicks. Disable free text here, let that be in description instead.

Browse by company/company type

The board needs a way to browse by company (currently proxied for by the poster) OR by type of company: startups, stable companies, etc.

The latter is not straightforward. We have no way to do this unless we track companies, a la CrunchBase.

Cache cards using local storage

In Hasjob's new avatar as a rich client app, job cards should be cached locally so that the server only needs to send the newest cards. Reloading the page takes way too long on mobile.

Suggested edits feature

When jobs are cross-posted to forums like Facebook, commentators often nitpick about grammar and spelling. The job board should have a suggested edit feature where anyone (or anyone with a certain reputation level or higher) should be able to edit the post and submit the edits for review by the original poster.

The job board could be a nicer place if people supported each other rather than pulling each other down.

Tweet with lister's twitter id

Folks sometimes respond to @hasjob's tweets. This is useless because the reply isn't directed to the person listing the job. They'll not see it.

We should ask for the lister's Twitter id in the posting form and include that in the tweet so that a Reply All will include them.

Sort search results by date

Search results are sorted by relevancy which is confusing to browse. Results sorted by date would be easier to look at.

Title for the RSS feed is incorrect

Title for the rss feed is incorrect. The title seems to be picked up from the last post - should instead of a fixed text like Hasgeek job board or something.

Add a 'Closed' state

'Withdrawn' hides the listing entirely. Sometimes it's good to indicate the position has been filled, while leaving the description available for all to see.

Email validation

Two email addresses are accepted. They shouldn't be.

Use profiles for contact information

Instead of letting applicants contact over email, require them to apply with a HasGeek profile. The Show Instructions button will become an I'm Interested button which will send a notice to the employer. If they are interested in the candidate, they can connect and Hasjob emails both parties to introduce them.

The profile page becomes an easy way to gauge the candidate's experience level.

Commenting support required

Many jobs don't have a clear enough description. Allowing users to comment will help make the listings interactive.

The flip side is that less savvy users will attempt to apply for the job via comments, adding noise for others.

We should have commenting as a controlled feature to see how it works.

Search results are not sorted by date

If not done deliberately, this is a bug.
I am guessing changing the views.py at line 499 (def search()) can help:

results = sorted(results, key=lambda x: x.count, reverse=True)  if results[0]['idref'].split('/')[0]=='post'

I'll submit a patch if the change looks okay.

Add a job specs badge

for every job, the content could be passed through https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint to get a "job spec" score & use it on the UI somehow.

Search shows older job posts too

Write a cron to weed this out.

Use schema.org markup for job listings

@hallidude look up what micro-schema applies to hasjob.

Time period for internships and limited-time assignments

For non-permanent jobs, the employer should be asked to reveal the duration of the assignment.

This will require tagging job types to some form fields and having those fields show selectively.

Feed is not valid

The feed url doesn't validate - http://jobs.hasgeek.com/feed.

You can see the errors here - http://validator.w3.org/feed/

import errors due to new naming scheme (Flask)

flaskext.assets has been renamed as flask.ext.assets, used in assets.py
flaskext.sqlalchemy has been renamed as flask.ext.sqlalchemy, used in models.py and search.py

Sorry I am still figuring things out so could not send a patch.

Links in job posts should be validated

Users sometimes forget to include the http:// in a link. The editor widget should validate all links in the post to confirm they are correct.

1. Force all URLs to be absolute (unless they are links to other posts on the job board, but how do we tell?)
2. Check if the link is valid (ie, it loads with status 200)

Job detail Page needs (Meta) Description

The Job page needs to have a description friendly to search engines. The description can be a combination of Job, location & company.

Job sharing using Facebook

Currently "Tweet This" or "Email This" options are available. There should be option so that user can share job using Facebook like share on Facebook.

Move userjobview update to a queue

Stats updates shouldn't be in GET requests. Move it to a background queue.

Font difference in job posting page

Tinymce font(description field) and job posting page uses different fonts. Use same font.

Multi-company aggregation pages

Hasjob should support aggregation pages across companies.

An accelerator/incubator like the Morpheus should be able to make a page that lists jobs from across their portfolio companies.

Email should update should be denied

Email is what we use to communicate with the original poster. It shouldn't be editable.

Add multiple opening option

Add a multiple opening option for same job

Include more details in the URL

URL slugs don't say enough about the listing.

jQuery UI should be removed

It's not clear why Hasjob needs jQuery UI. It should be removed with bootstrap plugins used instead.

Database Access

A front end user interface that can pull out data about HasJob is required.
The data parameters required are

1. Name of the company that has posted a Job on HasJob
2. Category/Job Title(s) (This could be a little vague in terms of data. What is an important metric is the kind of group the Job belongs to. By group I mean cloud, JS etc. Here's an example: http://jobs.hasgeek.com/search?q=cloud
   It would be good to have all the companies that show up on this search result as a list with the mentioned parameters. The Category might not be adequately able to tell us about the job)
3. Contact of the Job Poster
   Email/Phone number)
4. City of the Job/ Office
   We will most probably only have the city where the job requirement is. It can be safely assumed that the comany has an office at the site specified.
5. Company Url

The HasJob database can be used to coordinate the marketing and sponsorship activities. This is a good approach to take as users on the list already know of Hasgeek and will be open to exploring sponsorship options with us.

This feature can be further extended in the future to include a company's cumulative activity data on Hasgeek products and events, a part of the larger Hasgeek profile building activity

Twitter tweet length isn't checked

The Twitter posting code doesn't check for tweet length accurately. It failed on this listing: http://jobs.hasgeek.com/view/pkqjq.

Traceback:

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1504, in wsgi_app
  response = self.full_dispatch_request()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1264, in full_dispatch_request
  rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1262, in full_dispatch_request
  rv = self.dispatch_request()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1248, in dispatch_request
  return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
File "/var/www/hasjob/views.py", line 347, in confirm_email
  _external=True), post.location)
File "/var/www/hasjob/twitter.py", line 26, in tweet
  api.update_status(text)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 179, in _call
  return method.execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tweepy/binder.py", line 162, in execute
  raise TweepError(error_msg, resp)

TweepError: The text of your tweet is too long.

Tweet text:

text =  u'Website QA Analysts to perform functional, regression, and other types of website QA  for  Food.com. http://hsgk.in/IwOOTu #Bangalore'

Make Connection button is unintuitive

Employers are getting confused by the Make Connection button. Its not obvious what it does.

Further, the connection email that is sent out does not indicate who is responsible for following up, the candidate or the employer.

Hasjob should instead provide a text field for the employer to send a message directly to the candidate, and should record this response.

In future this process can take place over an email gateway instead of the web.

Reported by @surdattack.

Location tagging

Hasjob should use location tagging instead of a freeform location text field. The Geonames webservice can be used to autocomplete location names:

http://ws.geonames.org/searchJSON?name_startsWith=<term>&countryBias=IN&featureClass=P&callback=<callback>

Certified recruiter flag

Companies like HackerEarth regularly list on Hasjob for their clients. They are in our approved list of recruiters who pay for every listing.

We've should make this a flag that shows on the listing. I propose:

1. Recruiter table which lists all the domains used by certified recruiters (should it also include specific email addresses for gmail users?)
2. A certified flag on the listing that is automatically set if the recruiter is found in the recruiter table. This can be manually unset for cases where the recruiter is hiring for themselves.
3. A monthly report that looks for recruiter listings and helps prepare an invoice (manually processed).

Search query in input box

When searching for a job, the queried phrase should appear in the search box on the results page.

Domain verification required

Domain verification is required to protect from fake listings. If someone posts with example.com as the website address and provides an email address @example.com, then their domain is considered verified -- the listing came from someone in the organization.

Non-verified listings should be held for moderation.

Warn about recruiter spam

Recruiters ignore the no-contact flag, so warn users against giving away contact information.

Notice of expiry

An expiry notice should be sent 1-2 days prior to the listing expiring.

Breakage from issue #28

The linkify in Issue #28 is causing a bunch of side effects. This call should go into rendering instead of when saving to the database.

Run linkify on the Apply section

The Apply section is a plain text field and so doesn't go through bleach.clean and bleach.linkify. It could contain links though, so it needs to be passed through bleach.linkify when rendering the page. Watch for conflicts with the other parser that handles email addresses.

Check for Apply instructions

The How to Apply section must include a URL or email address, to prevent accidental listings with no contact information.

Whoosh has occasional locking errors

Whoosh locks the index when updating it. This causes locking errors on the rare occasion when two job listings are confirmed at the same time. Here's a typical traceback:

Exception on /confirm/z39wf [POST] Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1504, in wsgi_app
  response = self.full_dispatch_request()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1264, in full_dispatch_request
  rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1262, in full_dispatch_request
  rv = self.dispatch_request()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Flask-0.8-py2.6.egg/flask/app.py", line 1248, in dispatch_request
  return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
File "/var/www/hasjob/views.py", line 312, in confirm
  db.session.commit()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/scoping.py", line 114, in do
  return getattr(self.registry(), name)(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 655, in commit
  self.transaction.commit()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/session.py", line 319, in commit
  self.session.dispatch.after_commit(self.session)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/sqlalchemy/event.py", line 291, in __call__
  fn(*args, **kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/flask_sqlalchemy.py", line 185, in after_commit
  models_committed.send(session.app, changes=d.values())
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/blinker/base.py", line 220, in send
  for receiver in self.receivers_for(sender)]
File "/var/www/hasjob/search.py", line 57, in on_models_committed
  writer = ix.writer()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Whoosh-1.8.0-py2.6.egg/whoosh/filedb/fileindex.py", line 271, in writer
  return SegmentWriter(self, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/Whoosh-1.8.0-py2.6.egg/whoosh/filedb/filewriting.py", line 125, in __init__
  raise LockError

LockError

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Possible solution: catch the exception, sleep a second, and try again.

Ignore candidate should send mail

Ignore candidate should send a canned response back to the candidate. It should be possible to add this canned response at the time of creation.

Move to bs3

hasjob is not using bootstrap or for that matter, even baseframe.
We need to port all templates to use Bootstrap 3.

Require login to post jobs

Login will enable management of listings from the website, including tracking responses and reporting spammers.

Apply with LinkedIn

Candidates should be able to apply by submitting their LinkedIn profile. HasJob needs an "Apply with LinkedIn" button.

Anonymous profiles

User profile pages should have an anonymous version where a summary of relevant information is provided along with endorsements from real people, without revealing the individual's identity.

Suggested by @jitendravyas.

View/Feed by poster.

Generate a view and a feed by poster.

The withdraw listing form should warn about reposting

Make it clear you can't have dupes

Move agelimit and newlimit into settings

The agelimit and newlimit variables should be in settings. However, importing timedelta in the settings file is a no-no (no code in settings), so we do it like this:

# settings.py
AGE_LIMIT = {'days': 30}
NEW_LIMIT = {'days': 1}

# code
agelimit = timedelta(**app.config['AGE_LIMIT'])
newlimit = timedelta(**app.config['NEW_LIMIT'])