Careerbuilder

You can apply to be a CareerBuilder Partner at http://developer.careerbuilder.com/partner_messages/new. Once you are a partner you will receive an API token and can start using this gem.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'careerbuilder'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install careerbuilder

Configuration

Set your API token, and any other configuration settings in a place that will run prior to your API calls.

Careerbuilder.configure do |config|
  config.api_token = 'your-api-token-goes-here'
end

Job Search

You can search for a list of jobs

jobs = Careerbuilder::Job.search({location: 'San Jose'})

or a specific job

job = Careerbuilder::Job.find('any-old-id')

Job Search params

If you want to perform a job search with multiple parameters you can supply them in a hash like so:

search_params = { location: 'San Jose', keyword: 'Database Admin' }
Careerbuilder::Job.search(search_params)

Available Parameters

• keyword - for general search (will return jobs with matches in title, body and location (country, state, city and zip) fields)
• title
• employer
• body
• country
• state
• city
• zip
• function – see list of supported functions
• posted_at (yyyy-mm-dd format)
• job_id
• location - for search in country, state, city and zip fields

Supported Functions

• Accounting
• Admin/Clerical
• Advertising/Public Relations
• Automotive
• Aviation
• Banking
• Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical
• Building/Facilities
• Business Opportunity
• Childcare
• Communications/Media/Writers
• Construction/Trades
• Consultant
• Customer Service
• Education
• Emergency/Fire
• Engineering
• Executive
• Government - Military
• Healthcare
• Healthcare - Allied Health
• Healthcare - Nursing
• Healthcare - Physicians
• Hospitality
• Design
• Finance
• Hourly
• HR
• Insurance
• Journalism
• Law Enforcement
• Legal
• Manufacturing/Production
• Marketing
• Non-Profit
• Oil/Energy/Power
• Real Estate
• Restaurant
• Retail
• Salon/Beauty/Fitness
• Sales
• Science
• Security
• Social Services
• Supply Chain/Logistics
• Technology
• Telecommunications
• Transportation
• Travel/Tourism
• Vet/Animal Services

Job Details

After you have performed a search you can access the data attributes like so:

CareerBuilder::Job.search({ location: 'San Jose' }).each do |job|
  puts "Job Details: #{job.data[:employer}} - #{job.data[:title]}"
end

The following data attributes are available from a job

• title
• employer
• body
• posted_at
• url
• function
• job_id
• advertiser_id,
• location (country, state, city, zip)
• search_position - job's # in response

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/careerbuilder. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.