I've been developing software to automatically filter DICE job ads per skills that I don't have, i.e. any job ad that requires any skill that I don't have is rejected by my filter, leaving only the jobs for which I seem to fully qualify. Starting with searches for "PHP" or "Lisp" or "Java", a total of 3215 job ads were considered. Of these, all but 217 were rejected by the filter, thus reducing my workload (of manually reading each ad) by a factor of 14.8.
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One of the ads accepted, sequence number 170, was this:
which looks like this, identified by these key-value pairs:
Position ID: 267098
Dice ID: 10110586
which shows the required skills as follows:
Skills: Java, Linux-based, large-scale, distributed, web applications
Since I have each of those skills, I decided to apply for the job. The job ad didn't show any e-mail address for sending a resume, but did have a company URL for Nextag. Unfortunately that WebSite didn't seem to have any contact info. So next I did a Google search and found a Twitter user @NexTag who is connected with the company. So I tweeted this question:
I'd like to apply for a job (267098) that @Nextag posted on DICE. To what e-mail address should I send my inquiry/resume? 9:05 PM Apr 27th
I got back this response:
@CalRobert Hi Robert, you can apply through our site: http://nextag.com/about/careers/job-description?nl=1&jvi=oW3HVfwl,Apply&jvs=Dice.com 10:26 AM Apr 28th
I went to that URL and saw a page that looks like this. I don't see any confirmation that it's a page specifically about the job I'm interested in, and I don't see any form or link for applying for the job. Please tell me which link to click from that page, or if that URL was wrong then please tell me the correct URL.
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Update: I tweeted a link to this page of detailed explanation:
I'm having trouble with the URL tweeted to me by @Nextag. Please see: TinyURL.Com/MaasKey/NexTag 8:54 PM May 1st
This was tweeted back to me:
@CalRobert Hi Robert, when you go to this page: http://next.ag/llT7H1, do you see an app for your specific job? 10:22 AM May 2nd
I tweeted this reply:
@Nextag http://next.ag/llT7H1 takes me to the same Web page as before, nothing for my specific job. 5:24 PM May 2nd
This was tweeted back to me:
@CalRobert Do you see "Senior Software Engineer (Platform & Infrastructure)", and is that the specific job for you? 5:38 PM May 2nd
From that page, if I click on:
IFRAME: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qr49Vfwj&cs=9Xv9Vfwg&jvresize=http://www.nextag.com/about/jobs/frameresize.html
it takes me to a page that looks like this.
Near the bottom of that page is this link:
Senior Software Engineer (Platform & Infrastructure)
Yes, that is indeed the title of the job I was interested in, but clicking that link merely takes me back to the same page where I was already at twice before, which has no confirmation it's the correct page for that specific job, and has no application form.
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