More Jobs, Better Matches: Marketplace Ratings

OK—you’re looking for a job. That’s easy – you just go to Marketplace and search for the title of your desired position, plus any other keywords that are important. For me, that would be “copywriter”, “translator” and “Hamburg”.

But what if you’re not looking for a job—not really looking anyway—but are still curious to know what’s out there? Up until now, the “Jobs that match my profile” box has done what it claims to: shown me the jobs that match keywords in my profile.

Let’s say I’m looking for a change of pace: I’d like to find work as a journalist. There are several jobs on Marketplace which may interest me, but they don’t match keywords in my profile—yet. How can I find out about them without searching every time? Now with the new Marketplace rating system, members can assign star ratings to jobs, and improve the suggestions sent to the XING start page.

So for those who want to see improved job suggestions, the ratings system will be a real improvement. Everyone else will continue to see the automatic matches on the start page.