Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate

From	Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.help
Subject	Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate
Date	2011-09-05 15:17 -0400
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On 09/05/2011 01:01 PM, Peter Raeth wrote:
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>
> Choosing a career is an important step but there appears, to me, to be
> a disconnect between the career counseling process and the job market.
> To connect the two, I want to take the results of web-based career
> tests and feed them to individual company job sites to extract
> existing job offers according to keywords derived from the test. There
> would be a database of links and query "scripts". All would happen
> automatically and then be presented to the individual test taker. To
> be sure, this is not something that will happen without carefull
> planning and implementation.
>

Sounds kinda like a data mining operation, at least to start.
I think most of the major search engines offer an API.
You'll need to be aware of the TOS for the sites you visit and please 
follow the standard for robot exclusion.

Just out of curiosity, is any of this contractual between you, the 
career counselor, and the test providers, and job providers? If so, much 
of your data would not need to be mined.

Good luck.

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Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate Peter Raeth <peter_raeth@juno.com> - 2011-09-03 13:46 -0700
  Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-03 19:24 -0400
    Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-04 05:11 -0400
      Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-04 15:12 -0400
        Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate Peter Raeth <peter_raeth@juno.com> - 2011-09-05 10:01 -0700
          Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-09-05 15:17 -0400
            Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate Peter Raeth <peter_raeth@juno.com> - 2011-09-17 13:03 -0700
  Re: Web-based forms, Auto-Fill / Auto-Activate markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-03 19:24 -0700

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