Los Angeles, July 22: Online job search site HotJobs on Tuesday introduced a new feature that recommends available jobs to users based on other job postings they have seen. HotJobs, a unit of Yahoo Inc., said it is using some of the same technology as Yahoo`s personals site, which recently released a feature that recommends potential matches to users based on other people whose profiles they have examined.
"It`s got some of the same underpinnings, but some new ones," Dan Finnigan, executive vice president and general manager of HotJobs, told Reuters. "We will be providing these kinds of features and functions for our recruiters as well sometime soon."
Once users perform searches and save their results, Finnigan said, the new engine kicks in and begins looking for and generating suggestions of potentially-compatible jobs. Eventually, using the new technology, recruiters might also be directed to potential candidates based on the kinds of people they have considered for their positions, he said.
HotJobs also rolled out an overall redesign of its site that more tightly integrates Yahoo`s regular search functions and offers members more personalized features, like new "search agents" that regularly scan the system for potential job matches. Bureau Report