Yahoo! India Job Search - Feed specification

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Feed Specifications

As a partner of Yahoo! India Job Search, you can get your jobs included in our Search Engine by providing them to us on a periodic basis.

Giving us the Feed

Feeds are to be provided in XML Format (xml spec below)
Upload your feed at the FTP dropbox provided to you.
Filename convention for your xml files:

<partnername>_<dd>-<mm>-<yy>-<hh>-<mm>-<ss>.xml

Recommended Practices

In daily feeds, upload the changed or new jobs.
Jobs that expire or are deleted, should get included in your feed, with appropriate tag (<ACTION>DELETE</ACTION>) so that they are deleted from the index. Else, they may come up on the Search Results and, when the users click them, will result in poor user experience.
Upload the feeds before 1 am India time (7:30 pm UTC) so that they are included in the index by the next day.

XML Structure

(Please note: ISO-8859-1 encoding is required to allow parsing of non-ascii characters)

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?>
<Jobs>
    <ReplyEmailID />
    <Version />
    <Operation />

    <Job>
        <JobLabel />
        <Action />
        <Title />
        <Company />
        <Email />
        <City />
        <Country />
        <Industry />
        <JobListingURL />
        <HireType />
        <MinExperience />
        <MaxExperience />
        <Degrees />

        <SalaryDet>
            <SalaryType />
            <SalLowBound />
            <SalHighBound />
            <SalaryCurrency />
        </SalaryDet>

        <Desc />

        <TimePosted>
            <Date />
            <Time />
        </TimePosted>
        <Premium />

    </Job>
</Jobs>

Click here to view an example job feed

XML tags details

Tag	Value	Description
ReplyEmailID	valid Email ID	Email ID of your contact person
Version	1.0	Common version number for feeds
Operation	REPLACE, UPDATE	Typically UPDATE. REPLACE will delete all the existing jobs and will add jobs from the current feed, in our DB.

JobLabel	unique ID	Prefix a unique number with a string indicating your company, e.g. MYCO1123
Action	ADD, DELETE, EDIT	To ADD, EDIT or DELETE a job
Title	text	Title of the Job
Company	text	Company or the principal recruiter
Email	valid email ID	Contact Email id for the job
City	text	Multiple Locations permitted (use '\|' as delimiter). e.g:Mumbai\|Bangalore\|Pune
Country	text	Name of the country. e.g: India, Australia, USA. Multiple countries not allowed.
Industry	industry code ( see List )	Multiple industries permitted (use '\|' as delimiter). e.g: ITA\|GOV\|ART
JobListingURL	URL	URL for the job details.
HireType	EMPLOYEE, CONTRACTOR	Optional
MinExperience	number of years	Optional
MaxExperience	number of years	Optional
Degrees	text	Optional. Educational Qualifications required. e.g: BE\|MBA\|MS\|MSc. Note: Multiple Qualifications permitted (use '\|' as delimiter).
Desc	text	Job Description

SalaryType	HOURLY, MONTHLY, YEARLY	Optional
SalLowBound	number	Optional
SalHighBound	number	Optional
SalaryCurrency	INR, USD, EUR	Optional

Date	date in DD-MM-YYYY format	Examples: Correct: 23-07-2005 Incorrect: 23-7-2005
Time	time in HH-MM-SS format	Examples: Correct: 23-09-09 Incorrect: 23-9-9

Premium	YES/NO. By default this value is taken to be NO in the absence of value or tag. For premium jobs specify YES	Examples: <Premium> Yes </Premium> <Premium> No </Premium> <Premium/>