A buddy recently asked if I could help him with a PHP project for his sports news website. The goal was to convert his static website into a location where individuals could passively look for employment while catching up on the latest sports news.
The request seems simple until he added, "Ben, I also want to generate additional money from these job advertisements." You might be excused for believing that earning money from a new job search website is a difficult process.
With so much competition out there, it must take a massive effort to maintain and separate from all the other employment sites, right? Wrong.
You couldn't be more wrong. And now I'll explain why.
While new job search sites appear on a daily basis, there is still plenty of room to carve out a niche in the industry. The internet recruiting market is worth more than £30 billion and is continually expanding. As a result, even a modest portion of the total pie might be a valuable investment.
I approached the assignment with some apprehension. Such a project would take a long time, I reasoned, since it would include storing jobs in a database and displaying them to users depending on their search parameters.
Fortunately, I stumbled discovered a third-party job search site that provides an API that allows users to create their own job search engine.
The API's brilliance rested in its adaptability. The API gave websites access to hundreds of thousands of the most recent UK job openings and enabled them to display them to their users.
There was no need to set up a database or deal with any other time-consuming technological concerns. In actuality, all I had to do was receive the user's request and transmit it to the API.