A job board is a web application that 'converts' visits to a web site into actual candidates registering for consideration for a job. It can belong to a company that is recruiting its own employees or a third-party provider that helps companies to recruit.
The basic functions of job board are:
Acquiring candidates
Storing and providing access to candidate profiles
Processing candidate profiles
Acquiring job postings
Storing and providing access to job postings
Processing job postings
Providing value-added functions to candidates and employers
In this mashup we will show how some of a job board's functions can be duplicated using various existing APIs on the Internet.