Job Feeds
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Job Feeds are a method of serving employment oriented web content via standard RSS technology.
Typically, the vacant positions are published as a single RSS item. The job title appears as the RSS title with a summary of the vacancy in the RSS description. Often, the RSS link hyperlinks to the vacancy's full listing together with the ability to apply online.
The primary benefit in using RSS technology to search for jobs is that the vacancy is delivered to your desktop (or mobile device), rather than traditional web browsing.
[edit] How to use it
As with standard RSS Feeds, you need a feed reader—this is a tool like an email program. It's like getting an email every time one of your subscriptions updates their content, except no email address is required. There are many feed readers—some are online (like a webmail account), some are offline (you download the program to your computer), some are free and some aren't.
You may have come across feed readers already. If you use personalized home page services like My Yahoo or My MSN, you have a feed reader—that's how content like news, weather and stock quotes appear on your personal page. You can also add content from any site with feeds to your page to get updates. Internet Explorer 7 has an inbuilt RSS aggregator.
