IpsoJobs

It’s been a year since the official launch of ipsojobs.com and we are really proud of the achievements we made in this period.

Let us summarize the major work done in this first year:

Partnerships:

Our major strength rigth now is our partners:  we have city admins who control the content at a city level, partners who send us quality job offers and partners who help us to be more findable in their search engines.

SPAM figthing:

One of our main focus is to assure the quality of all jobs postings. Usually the simplicity of the posting process means lots of spam offers. That’s why  we have developed a multi-level control system to fight spam. Our software and methodology is working really well so we can keep the site clean and with relevant job offers. This give us a clear competitive advantage in front of some similar sites.

The different levels of spam control are:

1. City administrator, one of the tasks of a city admin is to control the new job offers (usually via RSS) and delete the spam introduced.
2. The happy anti-spam robot, we clean MLM offers and other spammy job offers with a robot provided with the blessing of Artifial Intelligence, the robot is running around the clock and he never gets tired.
3. Super Admin filter: we ourselves as super-admins control ALL the new offers in ALL the cities around the globe and filter the bad job offers

Relevance and competition between cities:

We have developed a powerful set of back-office applications to track the performance of all city admins. It allows us to have ‘the pulse’ of Ipsojobs in real time.

We have set some rankings that give to the city admins an idea of their performance related to the other cities.

Even more, we control the relevance of each city in the tagcloud in the worldwide home page, giving more size to the most relevant cities in each area.

SEO:

Every category and every job offer has a relevant and nice URL and the markup is build up to be the most SEO friendly as possible.

We have set links between nearby cities, that allows our job seekers to find jobs in nearby cities and give us automatic cross-linking.

OTHERS:

• UWA Widget, you can use the UWA widget that allow you to keep informed of the new job offers in your city.
• Nearby job offers, we have setted an XML API to find jobs nearby a given latitude and longitude.
• Expiration warnings, when you enter an offer the expiration time is one month, but you can give us your email (optional) to allow you to re-publish the offer for one more month.
• Google App Engine, we have tried the google app engine as a CDN and blogged about this to share with the community.

We have a steady growth, the platform is robust and the business model is solid. Our mid-term goal is to get strong in a couple more of European countries apart from Spain. We have an unique product, an skilled team, a very positive attitude and the support of more than 150 city ambassadors around the globe. With all these ingredients in place we’re sure we’re heading towards a successful and challenging second year !!!

Thank you all for this great 1st year of Ipsojobs!