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| Do you have any quality guidelines for job content? |
| Sites providing job content to Simply Hired are required to adhere to the following policies. We ask that you read these policies carefully and refer to this document often. If you fail to comply with these policies, we may exclude the job content you provide. While in many cases we prefer to work with job content providers to achieve policy compliance, we reserve the right to exclude any job content at any time. Quality Guidelines - Basic Principles - Provide unique and relevant content that adds value to the job seeker experience. - Provide job content to Simply Hired that matches the job content on your site. - Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you would feel comfortable explaining what you have done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, "Does this help job seekers? Would I do this on my own site?" - Provide an efficient process for job seekers to view the details for a job and apply to that job. Quality Guidelines - Specific Guidelines - Provide job listings that are directly posted on your site. We do not accept jobs that are aggregated from other sources. - Provide the real company name for each job listing. - Provide accurate and up-to-date content including removal of expired job listings. - Do not provide job content loaded with extraneous or artificially modified content (i.e. keyword stuffing, etc). - Make the full job description visible on the landing page the job seeker sees when they leave Simply Hired. A login must not be required to view the full job details. - Provide an apply option on the landing page the job seeker sees when they leave Simply Hired. That apply option must be to submit an application either to the site first landed on (i.e. your site) OR directly to the hiring company's web site. - Do not display job listings provided by third parties on landing pages or during the apply process. Copyrights and Trademarks - We do not accept job content from sites that display material in violation of US or international copyright and trademark laws. - We do not accept job content from sites that display trademarks of Simply Hired or its partners and affiliates without written consent from the respective trademark owners. Failure to comply with these guidelines may lead to exclusion of your job content. If you believe that another site is abusing Simply Hired's quality guidelines, please report that site at http://www.simplyhired.com/a/our-company/contact-us and select "Report a Problem". |
| Terms and Conditions for Advertisers |
| Please review our Terms and Conditions for Advertisers. |
| Do you have tools for employers to search for candidates? |
| Wouldn't that be cool? Currently we have no such tools, but we can assure you that there are lots of great people out there looking for you. |
| How do I add my job listings and/or job site to your search results? |
| There are two ways you can currently add your jobs to our search results: Option 1: Provide us with a link to your site (we generally require having at least 100 jobs posted to do this). Option 2: Provide us with a feed (a feed will work for all inquiries). A feed is also the easiest way to get your jobs listed if you don't meet (a) above. In the future, we will increase the number of sites we index, and reduce the number of job listings required for inclusion in our crawl. |
| How do I add my job listings from countries outside the U.S. to your search results? |
| Simply Hired powers job search sites in 15 countries outside of the US: Canada (www.SimplyHired.ca), the United Kingdom (www.SimplyHired.co.uk), India (www.SimplyHired.co.in), Australia (www.SimplyHired.com.au), Germany (www.SimplyHired.de), France (www.SimplyHired.fr), Spain (www.SimplyHired.es), Italy (www.SimplyHired.it), Ireland (www.SimplyHired.ie), Belgium (www.SimplyHired.be), the Netherlands (www.SimplyHired.nl) Brazil (www.simplyhired.com.br), Mexico(www.simplyhired.mx) and Japan (www.simplyhired.jp). To include your jobs in these sites, visit any Simply Hired international site and click on the "Add jobs" link at the bottom of the search results page.
You can also advertise your employment brand via premium display ads that appear on relevant search result pages. For more information about advertising with display ads on Simply Hired, please contact displayads@simplyhired.com. We are looking to add additional countries as time moves forward. If you think we should be expanding into your neck of the woods, please contact us and let us know. |
| Do you charge for adding job listings? |
| Simply Hired does not charge for an employer to add their listings to our site.
If you would like to submit jobs to Simply Hired, you can do so with an XML feed. If your site is large enough (more than 50 jobs), please contact us with your company's careers/employment opportunities URL. If you have questions on XML feeds and what data fields are accepted and required, please check our XML FAQ's |
| How do I remove expired job listings from your site? |
| As Simply Hired only aggregates job listings from other sites and is not a job board, we would need to direct you back to the site(s) where you posted the listing for removal or modification of the job listing. A listing will only appear in our search engine if it is still active with the site where we pulled the information from. |
| Can I provide a feed to jobs I have posted? |
| Simply Hired can accept feeds in XML format. If you would like to send us the information about your feed, please feel free to contact us. |
| Can you use a feed that I already have set up? |
| If your pre-existing feed contains the required fields and can be mapped to our XML format, then we can use it. We will work with you to get useable feeds working with our system. |
| What types of feeds are accepted? |
| Simply Hired's feed system is designed to use XML or delimited files (comma, tab, etc.) or a set of characters (ex: "##"). We do not take RSS-XML feeds.
For XML files, although we give slight preference to our own Simply Hired XML Format, we can still map most other reasonable XML formats correctly, if the required fields are present. Please inquire to see if we can take your XML feed as is. |
| What are the data fields I can use for an XML feed? |
| Data fields we accept, by category (see below for required fields): General title job-code job-board-name job-board-url detail-url apply-url posted-date close-date job-category actionDescription summary required-skills required-education required-experience full-time part-time flex-time internship volunteer exempt contract permanent temporary telecommuteCompensation salary-range salary-amount salary-currencyLocation address city state zip country area-codeContact name email phone fax hiring-manager-name hiring-manager-emailCompany name description industry url |
| What are the required data fields for feeds? |
The required fields are:job title job description detail page URL job location (minimum state) job code or other unique identifierNote: If any required field is missing for a particular job, that job will not be indexed. |
| Can I ftp an XML feed? |
| The following are the two choices for us receiving an XML feed with ftp:
a) You can set up an account on your FTP server for Simply Hired as "read only". b) Simply Hired can establish an account for you on our FTP server. Note: Option (a) is the preferred option. |
| How does a feed get transmitted? |
| There are three ways to transmit your feed: Option 1: We get the feed file from your FTP server. Option 2: We get the feed file from your web site. Option 3: You put the feed file on our FTP server. |
| How often will my feed get read? |
| Your feed will be read on a regular schedule based on your input, unless you prefer it to be read more often. Options for reading include:
a) a given day at a given time b) daily at a given time c) several times a day |
| Is there a specification for a Simply Hired XML format? |
Below is an example of a skeleton XML format. Please check the required data fields before submitting a feed.
<jobs>
<job>
<title/>
<job-code/>
<action/>
<job-board-name/>
<job-board-url/>
<detail-url/>
<apply-url/>
<job-category/>
<description>
<summary/>
<required-skills/>
<required-education/>
<required-experience/>
<!-- below are all boolean -->
<full-time/>
<part-time/>
<flex-time/>
<internship/>
<volunteer/>
<exempt/>
<contract/>
<permanent/>
<temporary/>
<telecommute/>
</description>
<compensation>
<salary-range/>
<salary-amount/>
<salary-currency/>
<benefits/>
</compensation>
<posted-date/>
<close-date/>
<location>
<address/>
<city/>
<state/>
<zip/>
<country/>
<area-code/>
</location>
<contact>
<name/>
<email/>
<hiring-manager-name/>
<hiring-manager-email/>
<phone/>
<fax/>
</contact>
<company>
<name/>
<description/>
<industry/>
<url/>
</company>
</job>
</jobs> |
| Skeleton XML format |
<jobs>
<job>
<title/>
<job-code/>
<action/>
<job-board-name/>
<job-board-url/>
<detail-url/>
<apply-url/>
<job-category/>
<description>
<summary/>
<required-skills/>
<required-education/>
<required-experience/>
<!-- below are all boolean -->
<full-time/>
<part-time/>
<flex-time/>
<internship/>
<volunteer/>
<exempt/>
<contract/>
<permanent/>
<temporary/>
<telecommute/>
</description>
<compensation>
<salary-range/>
<salary-amount/>
<salary-currency/>
<benefits/>
</compensation>
<posted-date/>
<close-date/>
<location>
<address/>
<city/>
<state/>
<zip/>
<country/>
<area-code/>
</location>
<contact>
<name/>
<email/>
<hiring-manager-name/>
<hiring-manager-email/>
<phone/>
<fax/>
</contact>
<company>
<name/>
<description/>
<industry/>
<url/>
</company>
</job>
</jobs> |
| Delimited files |
| We can take just about any type of delimited file (comma, tab, other single character, or multi-character) as long as it has a header line and uses either proper escaping or a significantly complicated multicharacter delimiter such that there is no worry of the delimiter showing up in the data. An example of a multi-character delimiter might be: '#!#'
For single character delimiters, proper escaping is essential if the delimiter may appear in the data. For multi-character delimiters, we assume that NO escaping will present. |
| Which character encoding should be used for feeds? |
| All feeds must be in basic ASCII, Latin1, or UTF8 encoding. Certain characters that are used in the Windows ANSI encoding will not parse properly with an XML parser. A decent, though not comprehensive, test is to load the XML file in Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer. Both of these browsers will object to bad XML or un-readable characters, though they each have their own view of "valid." Neither will catch all problems. |
| How long does it take for jobs I submit to appear in your search results? |
| It can take up to several weeks for us to add jobs to our results if we have to build a custom robot to read the information from your site. If you would like to get your job listings into our search results faster, we would like to recommend that you consider building an XML feed that we can read. |
