Career Suggestion Tool, Help Wanted

[radderfire]

Hi Guys

I am building a career suggestion tool at CareerBoost.co. It's a simple service, it just throws random suggestions up for a new career. It's intended to help those that don't know what to do.

I now need to populate it with lots of career descriptions. I would be grateful if anyone could help me out by giving me a career name and description in this thread, which I can then add to my database (subject to editing if necessary of course!!)

Thanks for any help.

 

[radderfire]

Anyone? Or just suggest careers I should put in if writing a description is too much.

Thanks

 

[datalol-jack]

Knock yourself out, radderfire: https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobprofiles/Pages/caretaker.aspx.

 

[randomshenans]

You want to pull all this data from another source, like a job site or something... This is an awful way to do it.

 

[datalol-jack]

Yes, what's programming for if not automation, really. Find a few generic sources to scrape, get a coffee and let the machine do its thing.

 

[radderfire]

Yes, what's programming for if not automation, really. Find a few generic sources to scrape, get a coffee and let the machine do its thing.

Sorry, but I don't think I could just take someone else's data without their permission, which I think would be unlikely to be granted.

 

[randomshenans]

If you can't mine the data automatically don't bother, you're creating something that isn't fed by actual up to date jobs.

You clearly haven't thought about this much, as with 2 seconds of googling you can get access to a whole host of job APIs

http://www.programmableweb.com/news/70-jobs-apis-indeed-simply-hired-and-careerbuilder/2013/01/23

 

[datalol-jack]

If you can't mine the data automatically don't bother, you're creating something that isn't fed by actual up to date jobs.

You clearly haven't thought about this much, as with 2 seconds of googling you can get access to a whole host of job APIs

http://www.programmableweb.com/news/70-jobs-apis-indeed-simply-hired-and-careerbuilder/2013/01/23

+1

If it's for a public-facing project/assignment, whatever, then use the data sources which account for this type of use in their T&Cs.

 

[chroniclard]

Here you go.
Name - Ninja
Description - A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of the ninja included: espionage, sabotage, infiltration, assassination and guerrilla warfare.[1] Their covert methods of waging irregular warfare were deemed "dishonorable" and "beneath" the samurai-caste, who observed strict rules about honor and combat.[2] The shinobi proper, a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the Sengoku or "warring states" period, in the 15th century,[3] but antecedents may have existed in the 14th century,[4] and possibly in the 12th century (Heian or early Kamakura era).[5][6]

In the unrest of the Sengoku period (15th–17th centuries), mercenaries and spies for hire became active in the Iga Province and the adjacent area around the village of Kōga,[7] and it is from the area's clans that much of our knowledge of the ninja is drawn. Following the unification of Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate (17th century), the ninja faded into obscurity.[8] A number of shinobi manuals, often based on Chinese military philosophy, were written in the 17th and 18th centuries, most notably the Bansenshukai (1676).[9]

By the time of the Meiji Restoration (1868), the tradition of the shinobi had become a topic of popular imagination and mystery in Japan. Ninja figured prominently in folklore and legend and it is often difficult to separate fact from myth. Some legendary abilities purported to be in the province of ninja training include invisibility, walking on water and control over the natural elements. As a consequence, their perception in western popular culture in the 20th century is often based more on such legend and folklore than on the spies of the Sengoku period