Initially it was Oliver Kohl’s idea to have a Twitter feed that would push out any SAP jobs straight to you. I then thought that my “Yahoo Pipe for UK SAP ABAP jobs” might come in handy for this. A few minutes and messages later I had a play with Twitterfeed.com and not very long after that I was able to expose the result of the Jobserve.com RSS feed, which is captured by Yahoo Pipes and then converted into Twitter tweeds by Twitterfeed.
I am planning to discect these feeds a little bit more by role and location, but for now please check or follow Twitter user @pixelbase_jobs for regular updates on EU SAP contract ABAP jobs (via Jobserve.com).
Eh presto! Pixelbase has got a new service offering ! Thanks to Oliver for the inspiration (I know that he is working on a version for himself, which you can eventually reach under @SAP_jobs )
Oliver
December 8, 2008 at 10:16pmHi Michael,
thanks for providing another source on Twitter to pull data from 🙂 I think this will be an interesting experiment. Twitter is at the moment the fastest way to spread information, a fact that could become quite useful when searching for a job.
Did you already got any feedback?
Cheers,
Oliver
Michael Koch
December 9, 2008 at 8:47amHey Oliver,
No worries – glad to provide some input into this. I’ve also started to use one of the feeds that @SAP_JOBS uses as inputs to my Yahoo Pipe. Next steps would be to get some more feeds set up by each continent and maybe some countries as well, although I found in the past that some ads are not always properly assigned to countries (like: “Amsterdam, UK”), as some roles are split over several locations.
I’ve also been thinking about tagging the tweeds so people using Twitterscope et al could separate job feeds easier. It’s all very much like RSS Readers, really, but I think folks might like the fact that all of this is integrated into your Twitter timeline.
Another idea would be to use a job/keyword count to create stats similar to what ITjobswatch do. (http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/contracts/uk/sap.do). This could be used to indicate some trends.
M