Thomas Busch of Job Search Engine Careerjet
By Graham Charlton of e-consultancy.com
Careerjet is a job search engine that began as a bet by its founders, Thomas Busch and Jean-Benoit Andrieu.
It appears they have won - it now aggregates content from over 59,000 sites daily, and currently displays upwards of 21m vacancies. Graham talked to Busch about the site’s development and the semantic technology behind its search functions.
Here is an excerpt:
Can you tell me about the semantic technology behind the classification of job listings?
We use semantic technology to perform the automatic crawling function of the site. Its role is to find information from websites that contain job offers and then extract exactly what we want from it: job titles, job location, and job descriptions.
We also use semantic analysis technology to improve the search functionality — for example, the German language is notorious for melding together several words to make one long, complex one.
For complicated linguistic matters like these, we use semantic analysis technology to recognize the information, no matter what the language or construction, and form a coherent job listing out of it.
So basically, we use semantic analysis technology to standardize both the user (job seeker) queries and the job offer information placed on websites around the world so that our system is compatible with the user needs.
Read the full interview by Graham Charlton here:
