Jobster has just been rated the 4th best site for active jobseekers in the Job Search Engine Guide

Only one site will emerge from this comparison as the best for active job search; yet all four at the top are winners in my book.

For our hypothetical jobseeker, searching for the site with the highest job market coverage (see the initial post for detail), Jobster delivers a score of 72% for 4th place.

Rank shouldn’t be confused with utility however – at 72% coverage, Jobster is in a higher class than the 5th place (52%) and 6th place (28%) finishers.

And of the top four finishers, only Jobster focuses more on helping jobseekers get noticed by employers, than on presenting the most job ads. This is critical since finding the right job is only the first step in the hiring process. Just as important for the jobseeker is avoiding the infamous resume black hole – the place where unescorted resumes go to die.

In the coming weeks, Jobster plans to broaden their coverage of the job market. Even so, Jobster is a top-tier site delivering 72% coverage – good for a strong 4th place for active job search.

Getting to this broad level of online job coverage has been an interesting engineering challenge, requiring us to build both technology and processes that scale to large numbers of job sources. We’ve created a specialized mini-language for extracting structured data from online job sources and an engineering process that includes both local and outsourced talent for developing and testing the code.

Python’s creator describes having too much fun with Python on Nokia Phone:

The phone itself, even without Python, is incredibly cool; I spent much of the weekend using it as a camera, and it worked remarkably well considering that it doesn’t have an optical zoom or a flash, and is “only” 1.3 megapixels…

So on to the vast array of APIs available. Nokia has really done an outstanding job here. There are extension modules that handle all of the phone’s devices: dial a call, snap a picture, send/receive SMS, Bluetooth, and Internet (if your service provider offers it of course); as well as the key applications (calendar and address book, and probably more that I haven’t even discovered). You can also play sounds, view images, draw into a canvas, or open any file that the phone understands natively. And of course the GUI library — menus, dialogs, a low-level event loop, etc. Stuff for which standard Python libraries exist generally uses those — the filesystem (ROM, RAM, memory card, flash) of course, but also the Internet — urllib “Just Works” ™, and you can even write a server if you want to.