CBC Jobs RSS feed

Posted: July 5th, 2010 | Author: Dan Misener | Filed under: CBC | Tags: CBC, jobs, taleo | 6443 Comments »http%3A%2F%2Fmisener.org%2Farchives%2F644CBC+Jobs+RSS+feed2010-07-05+21%3A07%3A23Dan+Misenerhttp%3A%2F%2Fmisener.org%2F%3Fp%3D644

Here’s the short version of this story: The CBC’s jobs website doesn’t have an RSS feed. So I made one:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/cbcjobs

This feed is completely unofficial, and comes with no guarantees. You can also follow @cbcjobs on Twitter if you’re into that sort of thing.

You’re welcome.

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Here’s the longer version of the story: The CBC’s jobs website (“Powered by Taleo“) is basically pretty terrible. And astonishingly, it doesn’t have an RSS feed. If you want new CBC job postings via RSS, you can get them from a couple of places, but these sources aren’t exactly what I was looking for:

• The Tea Makers HR Department (appears to be a human-powered cut/paste job, sometimes delayed by days)
• CBCJobsBC on Twitter (seemingly official, but only posts jobs in British Columbia)
• MediaJobSearchCanada’s main RSS feed (updated frequently – by a scraper, I suspect, but contains every media job in Canada, and links point back to MJSC, where you can’t directly apply for any jobs)

So, using Yahoo Pipes and Feedburner, I cobbled together a feed that I hope will be useful to some people. Basically, this pipe takes the frequently-updated MJSC feed, and then filters out postings that don’t have “CBC RADIO-CANADA” listed as the Company. Then, it grabs the 8-character CBC job number (e.g. EDM00183) from the title, and appends it to

https://cbc.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=

to create a permalink. Feedburner makes the feed pretty, and periodically sends new postings to @cbcjobs on Twitter.

Obviously, it would be much better if the CBC made official job RSS feeds available, but until then, I hope this helps some people out.

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