Today is the day of the social bookmark, and since Digg is one of the most popular social bookmarking sites there’s no wonder why our friends at Recruiting.com adpoted a digg-like format last September.

Social booking allows people to vote on their web favorites, much like recruiting.com does with favorite blog posts. Might social bookmarking work in the world of jobs?

Enter Eyebulge. “At Eyebulge, you determine the relevance. The Eyebulge community “bulges” jobs they think are good, and that helps differentiate the great jobs from the average. Your keyword query will still help produce applicable hits, but the results will be sorted according the number of bulges each job has.” - Greg Martin

Relevance is in the Eye of the beholder, and now job relevance can be in the eye of the job seeker.

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Reading the Deans of Job Search Relevance, Hawaiian Bob and Jeff Tokarz, gives great insight to anyone interested in job search engine relevancy.

That being said, I have a question for the Deans. Why are original jobs and duplicate jobs, found on job search engines, treated in the same manner when it comes to relevancy?

My two cents - Jobs originating and residing on corporate career sites should be weighted with more relevance than duplicate postings pulled from one or many other sources, i.e. job boards. No question, job boards have and will continue to be used as an effective advertising medium, although as it pertains to job search engine relevance, corporate career sites provide the most relevant and up-to-date job content on the web. This rule would obviously not apply to companies without coprorate career sites.

So Deans, and anyone else out there willing to comment, what are your two cents?

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