Build it and they will come, tell us what features are important and we will improve accordingly. That is our guiding philosophy.
We take jobs from company websites, recruitment agency websites and job board sites and put them in one big database so you can search from our site instead of visiting all these sites individually when you're searching.
We are excited about this project and look forward to further developing it. If there's anything else you need to know hopefully we cover it below.
I have an habit of walking around with a little notebook in my back pocket. Wherever i go, whether it’s work, a party, shopping or eating I always have this book for those ‘aha!’ moments, then i would write the ‘aha’ idea down.
Roughly two weeks ago while going through my little notebook for an half baked idea that would get me out of a rut it came to me. There it was! So many person’s like myself are looking for a job right now, now would be a good time to take on this project.
After doing a quick google search and finding no such site focusing on the Caribbean, I assumed the opportunity to be up for grabs.
Now being one with very little resources I passed the idea by my friend Tony and we fleshed out the idea. I built the search functionality and results page in a night by doing some SERIOUS modification to the back-end of wordpress.
What I aimed to do was to:
As you see you can’t do much else besides search for jobs. Other than that I managed to add the subscribe to search by email with the help of feedmyinbox. Future features are dependent on the response from our visitors, that way we don’t waste precious time and resources building useless features just to find out later that they are, well, useless.
The most annoying thing about most job sites is that dropdown category box. What if I’m IT technician looking for a job in a retail company, do I select the IT industry or the retail industry? will the retailer list the job in the IT industry or the retail industry? Is there an it job in another industry that I may want to look at? . You get the picture. it’s counter productive. So for the search function we built no dropdown boxes. Think of it like google, if you’re looking for a job in marketing in st. kitts just type ‘marketing, St Kitts’ and hit the enter button. You don’t even need to click on the keyword box to start typing, once you’re on the home page the curser will automatically be in the search box.
The overall look of the site was inspired by Alistapart and blog.txt by Scott Wallick. 80% of my time goes into the backend of the website the rest goes into graphic design and red bull breaks. That way no one should come come to the site and say “oh this looks gorgeous, now if it would just work”.
All that being said I’m looking forward to the next couple o’ months. I’ll be using this page to basically give you behind the scenes update as we work on improving this website so if you have any suggestions or just want to keep abreast of whats happening Subscribe to the feed.
We have now created a new blog titled ‘The Pileup’ and moved some of the previous posts from this page to the blog. We will still post updates about the development of Pile O’ Jobs on this page, however, if you wish continue getting a glimpse of our views about business, experience, the web, culture etc., you’ll need to visit us at http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/
We messed up for internet explorer users and we’re very sorry.
For persons receiving job alerts and using an Internet Explorer browser, you may not have been able to access the more information button. Thanks to Kimare who pointed it out.
It is now fixed and running smoothly.
Email any queries to bill@pileojobs.com
We have been testing a custom search feature for some time and just last week we provided SiliconCaribe.com the first custom Caribbean Job Search Engine for their website.
If you have your own website and would like to add a jobs section its now possible with our custom search box.
How it works?
Go to the code page and follow the instructions. Copy the code provided and paste it in your webpage. That’s it! Once you do that whenever someone searches for a job from your website the searchbox will pull the results from our database and display them on your webpage.
We want to hear from you on this so if you have any comments, please dont hesitate to contact us. Thanks!
We thought we had the concept of a single search box down until two weeks ago when our google analytics registered a significant spike in traffic coming from techjamaica.com. Seeing we had not yet started to advertise pileojobs.com this came as a shock to us.
Anyways, I went and visited techjamaica, searched the site and found a post by lovepython in one of their tech forums(nice forums by the way). Apparently he didn’t like the way our results were displayed. There was not an easy way to sort by location. Coincidentally two days earlier we got the same comment on our home page.
So we had a few other persons give us their responses, and they all had the same issue.
Thus we changed it.
Thanks guys!
