Publisher is here: manage your job openings, publish them as oJobPub

Until now, publishing your job openings as oJobPub meant writing a JSON file by hand. Today we are releasing the first public version of Publisher, a free service that does this for you. You fill in your job openings in a form; Publisher turns them into a valid ojobpub.json and keeps it up to date.

What Publisher does for you

• Job openings in a form, not in code. Add a title, locations, tags and a salary range, and set the dates a job should be online.
• Jobs come and go on their own. A job is only published while it is active, complete and within its dates. When the application deadline passes, it disappears from your feed without anyone having to remember to remove it.
• You choose what gets published where. Group your jobs into feeds, for example one with all your openings and one for a particular job board. Publisher checks every feed against the oJobPub format and shows you if something is wrong.
• Your team works together. Invite colleagues as owners or editors. Every change is recorded, so you can always see who changed what.
• Applications still come to you. Publisher is not a job board and does not collect applications. Every job links to the page where you handle applications today.

Get started in five steps

1. Sign in at publisher.letsemploy.org with your GitHub or Google account. Publisher never sees or stores a password.
2. Create your organisation and add your job openings.
3. Copy the address of your feed. We recommend a permalink: its address never changes, even if you later switch which feed it publishes, or take all jobs offline with one click.
4. On your website, redirect /.well-known/ojobpub.json to that address. This is a small change for whoever looks after your website, and you only make it once.
5. Add your domain to SourceTracker, so job boards, search engines and apps pick up your jobs every day.

From then on, you only work in Publisher. Add, change or close a job there, and your website’s ojobpub.json follows.

Prefer to run it yourself?

Publisher is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You can run your own copy with a single container: it needs no separate database server and little memory, and your team signs in with the accounts you already use, such as Google, Microsoft, GitLab or your own identity provider. The README on GitHub explains how.

Early days

This is the first public release, and Publisher is available in English and German for now. We want to hear what works for you and what gets in your way: open an issue on GitHub, or reach us on Mastodon.