Weekend proj: Job aggregator/filter for Big 4 (big4work.com)
I've been looking for job opportunities w/ the big 4 and was having trouble sifting through all the big 4 job listing sites (whats with enterprise job listing platforms, they're so clunky??)
Anyhow - the other weekend I whipped up an aggregator/filter that lets you easily and quickly search over all the big 4's job listings (the job list is updated 3x a day). I find it pretty handy keeping a tab on new job ops and wanted to share with all yall.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to make it better, leave a comment.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 26.2 ms ] threadAnyhow - the other weekend I whipped up an aggregator/filter that lets you easily and quickly search over all the big 4's job listings (the job list is updated 3x a day). I find it pretty handy keeping a tab on new job ops and wanted to share with all yall.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to make it better, leave a comment.
Just curious. What draws you to working for the big 4?
I like the big 4 because it a stable work environment, the pay is good, and benefits are amazing (24+ vaca days and im not that senior!). The trick is finding a spot you're happy in can be a problem if you're not into accounting/auditing. Depending the position/management/etc you can be overworked, so thats something to be cognizant of.
I've noticed that companies often list their postings though a third-party site like taleo.net or apply2jobs.com (two I found by clicking on your site). Those sites also make it hard (probably intentionally) to get to the actual job listings from what I've seen, probably to prevent scraping.
How do you manage to get those listings you your site? Are you pulling a feed, polling the sites, or something else?
I got listing by polling the sites and each site needed a custom solution to pull the data down. Creating the mechanisms for grabbing jobs from each site took 80% of the total dev time.