Spider/Scraper Option
If you have more than 25 jobs posted monthly, and prefer not to setup a bulkpost file or provide us with an RSS/XML feed, we may be able to scrape your site and import jobs to your HERC account. Not all sites are suitable for scrapping, so we will need to evaluate your site to determine if this is a viable option for you. Please email support@hercjobs.org the URL of the page(s) to be scrapped for evaluation. Once set up, your HERC jobs will be updated every night to reflect the jobs on your institution’s website.
Cost*: $1,000 setup fee per spider.
Any adjustments/fixes to broken scraper: $600 per scraper
Pros: No staff time or resources are required to setup or maintain your scraper; however, we may need assistance from you if changes are made to your website that impact the functionality of the spider.
Cons: You would have to have 25+ jobs in order for us to build a scraper. Sometimes in the scraping process, full job descriptions and information can be lost, so it’s possible your jobs may lose some content. In addition, because we will only have access to the fields you use on your site, your jobs may not map to all of HERC’s search options. That means your jobs could show up in fewer search results, job alerts, and dual career searches than those jobs posted by other methods. (our system will email you confirmation of the file processing and alert you to any errors, if the file does not upload correctly you would not recieve an email and would need to alert us there is an issue with the feed).
*Costs are passed through from our job board provider, Naylor, Inc.