Yahoo! Classifieds Employment Batch Feed Spec

Below is a list of the fields which you are allowed to use for each classified advertisement. We highly recommend that you provide information for every field below to receive the best user response (please also refer to the Yahoo! Industry and Function Codes further down this page). Your listings should be submitted with all the fields in the sequence below in double quotes, comma-delimited format. If you do not have information for a given field, please remember to still include an empty field with a placeholder comma, and remember to leave the order the same as defined here.

#	Field Name	Example	Comments
1	Language	"English"	Required.
2	Company name	"Acme Incorporated"	Required, when available. The company that is recruiting, or its agent.
3	Job Starting Date	"19/01/1999"	eg. DD/MM/YYYY
4	Job Ending Date	"19/07/1999"	eg. DD/MM/YYYY
5	Ref. Number	"25432"	This is your ref. number
6	Industry	"ADV"	Required. Please see industry codes below.
7	Function	"ADM"	Required. Please see function codes below.
8	Job Title	"Managing Director"	Required
9	Job Type	"FT"	Required. See codes below.
10	Division	"Office Supplies"
11	Department	"Pencils"
12	City Name	"Croydon"	This is where the job is based.
13	Post Code	"SE24 9ZZ"	Required. This is where the job is based. First half of postcode ("SE24") will be sufficient. For overseas jobs, use the ISO Country Code, plus zero (0). A job in France would carry the postcode "FR0". For UK wide jobs, use GB0
14	Country	"UK"	Required. This specifies that the job will appear on UK and Ireland Classifieds.
15	Description/Comment	"Assistant required for overworked desert scavenger. Technical skills a must. Parachuting an advantage. Non-flying desert birds need not apply."	Required. You may use this field to include all other info which cannot be separated into fields.
16	Incentives	"% of sales"
17	Desired Requirements	"Technical skills. Parachuting experience."
18	Minimum Requirements	"Technical skills"
19	Salary (in local currency)	"30000-40000"	Please submit in exactly this format.
20	Local Currency	"GBP"	Required. Please follow this format exactly: British Pounds = "GBP", Irish Punt = "IEP"
21	Salary (in Euros)	"44600-59500"	Only put this is you have a salary in Euros.
22	Salary Time Period	"MO"	Please use one of these formats: Per Hour = "HH", Per Week = "WK", Per Month = "MO", Per Year = "YR"
23	Job Detail URL	"http://www.classifiedsrus.co.uk/detail.html"	The place on your site where the full job description can be found. Please start with "http://"
24	Contact name	"Mr W. Coyote"	Contact at the company recruiting.
25	*Complete Contact address	"35 Water Towers, London, UK"	*Required. See note below.
26	*Contact Phone	"+44 171 000 0000"	*Required. See note below.
27	*Contact Fax	"+44 171 000 0000"	*Required. See note below.
28	*Contact e-mail	"wcoyote@classifiedsrus.co.uk"	*Required. See note below.
29	Provider Brand Name	"Classifieds R Us"	Required, when links are co-branded. Your name, for co-branding purposes. Otherwise, just put "".
30	Text link	"More information from Classifieds R Us"	For co-branded links only. Wording must be agreed upon with Yahoo! Otherwise, just put "".
31	Buffer	""	Just put "" for now.
32	Buffer	""	Just put "" for now.
33	Buffer	""	Just put "" for now.
34	Buffer	""	Just put "" for now.
35	Buffer	""	Just put "" for now.
36	Buffer	""	Just put "" for now.
37	Buffer	""	Just put "" for now.

* Note on Contact Information:
- for Contact fields, you must include at least one of the following: Contact Address and Contact Post Code, or Contact Phone, or Contact Fax, or Contact Email.
- For phone numbers, it is in your best interests to include the country code, but country code is not required.
- If all the contact info is in one field, it must be in "Contact Name".

Below is an example of what your advertisement submission would look like if you had one ad.
Please note that the field numbers (1,2,3,etc) are NOT included in the data which you send to us.

Industry Codes	Industry
ADV	Advertising and Public Relations
AER	Aerospace and Defence
AGR	Agriculture
COH	Computer Hardware
COS	Computer Software
CON	Construction
CEL	Consumer Electronics
COP	Consumer Products (Clothing, Household Goods)
EDU	Education
ENE	Energy and Utilities
ENT	Entertainment and Sports (Media and Sports)
FIN	Financial Services
HEA	Health Care (Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Devices)
HMF	Heavy Manufacturing (Steel, Cars, Industrial)
HOS	Hospitality (Hotels, Casinos, Food Services, Travel)
ITE	Information Technology
INT	Internet and New Media
JOU	Journalism and Publishing
LAW	Law
LMF	Light Manufacturing (Furniture, Office)
NOT	Non-Profit and Government
PRO	Professional Services (Consulting, Accounting)
RAW	Raw Materials
RET	Retail and Wholesale
TEL	Telecommunications
TRA	Transportation
OTH	Other / Not Specified

Function Code	Function
ADM	Administrative (Human Resources, Clerical, Data Entry, Office Manager)
CON	Consulting (Management, Strategic, Technical)
CRE	Creative (Art, Designer, Editorial, Production, Writer)
EDU	Education (Lecturer, Professor, Instructor, Teacher)
ENG	Engineer (Design, Technical, Research, Software, Hardware)
FIN	Finance (Accountant, Analyst, Controller)
GEN	General Management (Management (any level), Executive, Supervisor)
GRA	Graduate
HEA	Health Care (Counselling, Medical, Nursing, Child Care)
HRS	Human Resources (Staffing, Recruitment)
INT	Internships (Paid and Unpaid Internships)
INF	Information Systems (MIS, Database, Network Administration, Systems Analyst)
LEG	Legal (Solicitor, Counsel)
MAR	Marketing (Advertising, Product/Brand Mgr., Public Relations, Bus. Development)
OPE	Operations (Production, Facilities, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Quality Control)
SAL	Sales (Customer Service, Telemarketing, Retail)
SER	Service (Customer Service, Technical Support)
SCI	Scientific (Biology, Chemistry, Environmental, Non-engineering)
TRG	Training (Corporate Training/Development)
OTH	Other / Not Specified (use this code if none of the above Function Codes applies)

Yahoo! Job Type Codes

FT Full-Time

PT Part-Time

INT Internship

TEMP Temporary Contract

HC Holiday Cover

MC Maternity Cover

Yahoo! Classifieds is a free service provided to users of Yahoo!, and Yahoo! reserves the right to remove your ad at any time for any reason. You are solely responsible for content. By posting an ad in Yahoo! Classifieds, you agree that you will not post any material that is untrue or inaccurate, libelous, unlawful, or that violates or infringes any trademark, copyright or other rights of others.

Yahoo! reserves the right to remove any classified ad that violates these requirements.

FT	Full-Time
PT	Part-Time
INT	Internship
TEMP	Temporary Contract
HC	Holiday Cover
MC	Maternity Cover