Feature suggestion: state field
It would be great if JobRoller contained a simple field for the job's state - ideally, an indexed numeric field for ultra-fast searches.
When a job was added, the field was automatically set after the Google API lookup (derived from the geo_short_address_country field, so no separate field necessary in the "enter job details" form.
Eg. geo_short_address_country: "Maryland, United States" => trim /, United States/ => state: "Maryland" (or better yet a numeric identifier)
Many different job boards are occupation-specific, and the certification required for the jobs vary strictly by state. For example, consider teaching, attorney, or medical fields, where your certification is valid only in one state.
If the jobs were identified by an indexed state field in the database, outputting "more jobs like this" below or beside a viewed listing would be lightning fast, and the jobs would be highly valid for the user.
Geo-searches and filtering on tags and categories could be dramatically improved, and outputting "suggested jobs" across other areas of a site beyond the job board would be much less hit and miss (or slow, if you have to search on the "geo_short_address_country" which contains a string value like this => "Maryland, United States".
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