We've made some big changes - again

ai-jobs.net v6.0

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As mentioned at the end of our v5.0 update, which was primarily of about the switch to a paid jobseeker membership for advanced features and high-salary job search, we also had some changes for the employer side in the pipeline.

The end of an era

Well, we ditched them completely. Employers posting jobs (manually) on our site that is. We noticed that it's actually waaaaay more efficient and beneficial for everyone involved if we don't allow HR to post jobs on here. Funny isn't it?

The thing is, we're usually much faster fetching listings from their ATS (~24h) than they are posting them here manually after a week or two. Plus many companies don't even put in the effort of uploading a logo or some basic details (we then put it in manually for them afterwards).

In short, it doesn't really work anymore. And it seems, as long as employers at least do a half-decent job of publishing vacancies on their career pages/ATS, we're all fine (or probably better off).

This also means we now have a platform that is:

1. 100% focused on getting you all the listings we can find in the quickest way possible

2. Tracking how long they're still fresh - HR almost never pull their listings after they filled a position (shout-out to jobdataapi.com for making this possible for us)

3. Redirecting all the recruitment traffic, interest and eyeballs to our Talent Directory, which means: YOU (in case you have a nice public profile set up there)

Employers with larger job packages can still post their paid-for listings until the end of their validity period (12 months for all packages after purchase).

Talent Profiles are now public

Which brings us to the second big change here: We made talent profiles public now!

They were kinda semi-public before - with names, contact details and location info hidden. The idea here was that only recruiters registered with our site would have access to it. Now this barrier is gone (see big change #1 from above).

You can view them now as a career landing page for your professional self that's a bit less confusing to (most) recruiters than a github user profile but also isn't gated by the likes of LinkedIn et al. Furthermore, you're probably using this site for a reason: because it's entirely and exclusively about AI/ML and everything related to Big Data. So your profile will be fully embedded in this topic cluster and get mostly only relevant attention from recruiters and companies searching for talent in this space.

On the functionality side here: We ditched names (who needs a name?) and added "vanity URLs", as in: you can now have a nice, short, shareable link to your profile, like "https://ai-jobs.net/t/MyNiceHandle". This is basically the successor to the randomly generated private links we had before.

It's simple, not perfect, we're working on it, let's see where it goes... In case you already had a profile up there, it has been disabled when we launched these changes - please check and decide what you want to make public and maybe fine-tune it a bit before enabling it again.

That's it for now. Finally we have a lot more energy to spend on improving job search without the ones who create those jobs getting in the way, LOL.