I decided to build a job search site

If you’re like me, and you may be since you’re reading this post, you get ideas for software, websites and services all the time. I know I do. What I struggle with is basically putting these ideas into practice. I occasionally write a little script, and occasionally I purchase a domain name that may work.

On HighEdWebTech, I made the decision to create a career search website that second appeared.

If you &#8217, re like me, and you may be since you &#8217, re reading this post, you get ideas for software, websites and services all the time. I know I do. What I struggle with is basically putting these ideas into practice. Before you know it, I have a lot of documents, some script, and domain names but no actual websites to speak of. Sometimes I write a little code, different occasions I buy a domain name that would suit my plan. I&#8217, m trying to break that routine.

I worked in higher physician from 1998 to 2016. It was amazing and the best career option I could have made. I met so several awesome coworkers, team members, companions and more across that day. I left and went to the private business for two decades, but it was n&#8217, t a great fit. At that point, I went full-time on my own at my online company, Gas Mark 8. I kept looking for higher ed roles, interviewed for several ( including a few full-day on campus interviews ) but nothing went my way. What can you accomplish &#8212, it happens.

Over the last 6 years since I left higher physician, I&#8217, d seen so many amazing people leave the industry. It started pre-pandemic, the past 3 decades have really been rough on higher learning and there&#8217, s been a massive exodus of skills. There are a lot of reasons for that, and we know many of them ( pay, remote work, career advancement, difficult environments, the big sea change in education, and so on. ) There has been a pretty large brain dump, and that &#8217, s a shame.

I&#8217, m bummed because I love higher physician and it &#8217, s essential. I don&#8217, t know what the future holds for it, but I believe in what its on. One baby is one time away from graduating from college, and the other is one year away from beginning. They ’re working with incredible faculty and staff, and they &#8217 are taking advantage of every opportunity they have. It&#8217, s but important as they get ready to go out into the earth.

In Cleveland, where I live, I created a very fast and ugly job search site that offered references to the HR listing sites of the colleges and universities close to me. I created a straightforward resource out of curiosity for what was available. I shared it with some people on my staff, and added more places like Erie and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was just for me generally, and had very little in terms of style or functionality. But, I did notice that some schools had RSS feeds, so I added a word in my code to one day create a feature that would display those job postings on the page instead of the page.