Dave’s ESL Cafe Job Board: Automatically Remove Korean Recruiter Job Postings

If you have Firefox with Greasemonkey installed on your computer (PC/Mac/Linux), then you can take advantage of my custom user script for automatically removing Korean recruiter postings from Dave’s ESL Cafe’s Korean Job Board.

This script now removes just over 100 recruiters job listings on Dave’s ESL Cafe Korean Job Board.

Install The Script

(updated 2008/10/21)

Here’s the problem it addresses and how it works:

Problem: Recruiter ads on Dave’s ESL Cafe obstruct Direct Employer ads

More appealing ads direct from employers (the people for whom you will actually be working) can be hard to spot at a glance on Dave’s ESL Cafe Korean Job Board, since they are outflanked vociferously by recruitment company ads, screaming in All-Caps and with poor grammar:

“HERE ARE BRILLANT TEACHING POSITIONS & RELIABLE SCHOOL ,CLICK HERE!”

Sure, there are some reputable recruitment companies out there, but most recruiter ads are either abstract or misleading, falling on a spectrum ranging from the general “We exist! Email us!” to specific but unrealistic guarantees of:

“You will receive 2.8 million won and 4 weeks of vacation!”.

Also, many of those teachers already in Korea visit the job board to update themselves on how the Korean job market is evolving, and maybe to consider switching employers.  They are not the target audience of recruiter ads.

Solution: Wipe away all recruiter ads as though they never existed

Simply install this Greasemonkey userscript I wrote in order to nix recruiter ads on Dave’s ESL Cafe Korean Job Board once and for all.

Features:

1. Works on a long list of recruitment companies that have posted on Dave’s in the past. I will update the list as necessary, but you will have to redownload the userscript for each update.
   
   [Alternatively, I have made it easy to add new recruitment companies to the list.  Just edit the userscript, and look to the bottom of the recruiters list to add your own list of recruiter names.]
2. Completely wipes away (hides) recruiter posts as though they never existed
3. Changes the Browser’s title bar to show how many recruiter ads were removed (For example, on 2008/10/09, 240 ads removed)

Restoring Recruiter Ads

Greasemonkey makes it easy to temporarily or permanently disable any script, include this one.  Just uncheck “enabled” in your list of scripts to disable it temporarily, or click “uninstall” to get rid of it forever.  Either option will allow you to see Dave’s ESL Cafe Korean Job Board as normal the next time you load/reload it.

Before - Too Many Recruiter Postings

After - Zero Recruiter Postings

Coming tomorrow: How To Hide Sticky Posts from Dave’s ESL Cafe forums to see the newer postings without having to scroll down past the stickies

2 Responses to “Dave’s ESL Cafe Job Board: Automatically Remove Korean Recruiter Job Postings”

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   November 1, 2008 at 1:07 pm

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