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JobServe needs your talent

2009-07-20T23:56:00+01:00

There are great things going on in JobServe Technology and we are always on the lookout for talented, enthusiastic, results driven developers to join the team. If you are an experienced .NET developer then read on, if you are a Java Developer – ever thought what it would be like on the Microsoft side?

HANG ON : JobServe doesn’t always want only IT people – check out JobServe recruitment for other positions.

We have two positions available to join the IT Development team here in JobServe UK, working from the head office in Tiptree, Essex (not far from Colchester or Chelmsford). We have a very experienced team of developers, spanning many years of job board development but we are always looking for new blood to “stir”, “question”, “challenge” and “integrate” with our team. The coming year of development projects is nothing more than staggering and is leaving our team pale at the prospect – Can you come and help them out?

So what do we want?

Experience : ASP.NET/C#/VB.NET of at least 4 Years for the Developer Role or 1-2 years for the Junior Role

Desirable Skills : Team Foundation Server, SQL Server or other relational database, exposure to web technologies. Demonstrate clear commercial project experience.

You must be able to self-motivate, stick to tight deadlines, work very well in a team and be a top analyst.

Benefits : Developer role to £40K, Junior Role to 28K. There is a pension, performance related bonus and technically challenging work.

If you want a challenge, want to use new technology, want to make a difference in a small company with massive ideas then Apply NOW.

Simply forward your CV along with why you want to work for JobServe to labs.personnel@apps.jobserve.com

or Apply Online for the right jobs here

Website Update 8th July 2009

2009-07-08T15:55:30+01:00

Today we updated the JobServe Labs website and our Job Search Web Service with a few tweaks to improve the experience for you all.

The major content improvement we’ve made is to move our social bookmarking and online-feed reading links to using the combined Add This buttons in order to get as much coverage as possible across all the social bookmarking websites that we all like to use.

The other tweaks concern the amount of physical bytes that our servers generate to actually present the website in front of you. We’ve extended the caching that your browser is allowed to do, and all of our dynamic content is now sent down the wire to you in either gzip or deflate compression if your browser supports it.

This last enhancement also covers the responses sent by the web services that drive our Windows Vista Gadget and our OpenSearch Provider, yielding about a 66% reduction in size for the Xml or Json payload. These features were already excellent for users that have limited bandwidth, but now you should find they are even faster!

Content coming up

Over the coming weeks we’re going to be writing about the various bits and pieces that contribute to the whole JobServe Labs content offering, including:

How we wrote our OpenSearch suggestions service in C# using WCF in .Net 3.5
The techniques we’ve used to implement HTTP 304 Not Modified (10.3.5 of RFC 2616) responses from our dynamic pages and WCF services
How to write a Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget – following in the footsteps of our very own Job Search gadget
How we’ve used Windows Live Writer as our content editing solution for nearly all of the content you see on this website – using a C# WCF Service as the ‘blog service’ endpoint for Live Writer.

We won’t be stingy with these articles, there will be code samples and walkthroughs on how to do some of this stuff yourself.

In the meantime, we hope you enjoy our even faster website and Job Search service!

Technology Team

JobServe

Downtime on 4th and 5th July

2009-07-06T12:45:13+01:00

We had some technical issues over this weekend which meant that both the labs website itself was inaccessible (it was redirecting to one of our main site’s SEO pages), as was the service used to power the Web Browser OpenSearch Provider and the Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget.

May we extend our apologies to anybody that was affected. Everything is back online now, and the underlying cause of the issue has been permanently resolved, so it will not happen again.

We’re seeing a lot of activity on our web-service and we know that a lot of you have been taking advantage of the direct ‘apply for this job now’ link in the Sidebar Gadget; which is a great sign.

Don’t forget to use the feedback link at the bottom of this page to tell us what’s working for you and what else you’d like to see us do for you; whether you’re looking for a job or for that perfect applicant for your job!

Labs Project Launches

2009-06-22T09:00:00+01:00

JobServe takes its technology seriously, we invest a lot in having a good in-house technology team and pride ourselves on thinking up new ideas and innovating as much as possible. What we have not been able to do is provide our users with multiple ways to use JobServe services and give our users the simplest and most direct way to feed ideas back into our technology projects.

Today marks the beginning of the change in our openness when it comes to enhancing the JobServe products for you, the users. Over the coming months we intend to provide new ways for users to use JobServe, whether it be from your hand-held devices or windows desktops and also to provide useful new web features to JobServe for you to try out, give feedback and really shape the JobServe of tomorrow.

We will also share some of our technology interests in articles but this is by no means the playground of the techie-geek (like us here). With the new user friendly alternatives to access your favourite JobServe Job Search or in the future accessing your recruitment products - this becomes the playground for all who want more out of their Job Hunting or Recruitment Services.

So we start with two prime releases, the Windows Sidebar Gadget for Windows Vista and upcoming Windows 7 and the Browser Search Provider add-in to simplify your job searching from within the browser.

Try them out, bookmark the site and check back regularly for updates. Subscribe to the available RSS feeds on the labs site.

We have lots of great ideas we want to share with you but we also want you to share with us

Technology Team

JobServe