The Jobs problem is not search problem (i.e. it isn't difficult to discover available jobs) but rather a trust problem. In this setting you have suppliers and consumers with many to many relationship.<p>The good supplier doesn't want to spend their energy in reviewing vast quantity of available consumers. At the same time good consumers don't want to go after every available suppliers. There is also good likelyhood that bad suppliers as well as bad consumers are trying to masquerade as good ones. This is the same setting as dating website or Amazon product website. The solution that humans seem to prefer is somehow build the trust model. In case of Amazon product website, you look at reviews and ratings by others. In case of dating website you look at characteristics that you have learned to trust such as what's in the photos, what person is doing for living, what degrees do they have and so on. In case of jobs, companies look at who is referring to who or if you are already at other top company (which is the reason why most people get jobs because of referrals, not by posting resumes). The trust model is developed individually and can massively be different from person to person.<p>I'm in fact more certain that virtually all companies <i>ignore</i> resumes posted on their website and most interviews happen solely because recruiter actively identified candidate from other similar company/university or referrals. However this may be more true in skilled jobs.
I bet the founders of Indeed are glad they sold it when they did.<p>Any business that depends on putting their own search results inside of Google's is going to be a target of "forward integration."
This factoid should not be uncritically repeated as this
blog post does:<p>"At the same time, 46 percent of U.S. employers face talent shortages and have issues filling open positions with the right candidate."<p>"Talk of a skills gap in the labor market is 'an incredible cop out'":<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/no-skills-gap-in-labor-market-as-wages-staganant-2017-6" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/no-skills-gap-in-labor-market...</a><p>Doubly so for technology:<p><a href="http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/02/08/there-no-shortage-stem-workers/79871624/" rel="nofollow">http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2...</a><p><a href="https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505...</a>
This sounds amazing. I honestly think recruiters can be entirely replaced by a decent A.I. and good scheduling software. And we would all be better off.
My initial reaction using Google Jobs search compared to LinkedIn:<p>- Not enough jobs. LinkedIn seems to have more jobs posted for the things I searched for. While many recruiters still post to Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter etc... The beef of postings, from my experience, is found on LinkedIn.
- Not easy to apply. LinkedIn has the ability to more easily apply. Yes, one could argue this is a bad thing (since companies get spammed with candidates) but I think with AI a lot of bad candidates could get filtered out more easily.
- No social network. Since so many professionals use LinkedIn, it's easier to find people you know who work at a company you are applying for.<p>I think this is a long, long way to beating LinkedIn for job search.
I wonder if the end goal here is for Google to start selling "Promoted Jobs" advertisements.<p>I'm also a little concerned if this gets popular that competitors jobs will happen to be further down the list than they should be, but that's probably just my paranoia.
Does Google have a deal with these companies? Will this be the start of the end of all those job sites? is Google just testing the waters? So many questions.
I tried out the example in the post and didn't get any of the contextualized information. Guess it isn't rolled out to everyone yet or do you have to sign up somewhere to see it?
OK google, now find me an employer that wants to pay more...<p>Kudos to google, hopefully this helps majority of America find jerbs.<p>most hackernews readers think this is stupid because our industry has different problems. Our jobs problem is:
- "employers often lie because they want to pay less than a typical employee is worth"<p>but also at the same time:<p>- "applicants often lie about their experiences and such"<p>So there are 4 quadrants: honest/dishonest applicants and honest/dishonest employers and where they overlap is small.<p>Niche job boards FTW
Not sure I like this. The reason I tend to use external job sites is that they don't know who I am so I don't have to spend three weeks beating off recruiters with a shitty stick. Google knows who I am.
I wonder if this means that instead of applying across numerous - way too many - career/job search sites (and filling in the same thing over and over again)...that maybe I can just fill stuff out once, and be done...and let the "machines" do the work for me? ;-)
These large companies can and do use lock-in with their tools to shape people's lives the way they want. This is the extreme end of where Google wants to be, I hope I'll never end up having to use any more of the things they develop.
I searched "jobs near me" in Firefox and saw nothing special. Apparently it only works in Chrome based browsers.<p>Even if I paste the URL of the special jobs result page back into Firefox, I get redirected back to a standard Google results page.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=jobs+near+me&ibp=htl;jobs" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=jobs+near+me&ibp=htl;jobs</a><p>Edit: after running "forget about this site" in the history, it now works. I guess some cookie or account setting was blocking it.
When I read the opening paragraph I was sure this was going to be using Google Lens with street view data to index offline jobs from window postings.<p>Honestly the wording makes me think it just wasn't ready in time for the announcement, although I'm not sure how they'd have up-to-date data.<p>It's one of the few applications of AI over street view data that doesn't utterly creep me out and actually seems quite useful.
The interface needs a lot of work. It's feels not just mobile first, but mobile only.<p>Also, maybe I'm just not a typical user, but it would be nice to have some better control over location, or at least indication of how close to the target location each job is.
How long will it be until employers can look up all the information Google has about me? More importantly, how long will it be until users will be expected to give access to their "likes, skills, and interests" for targeted recruiting? At least LinkedIn is easy enough to keep separate from the rest of my life. Google knows everything about me.