Are you looking for awesome jobs in the tech/ social media/ social enterprise/ nonprofit space?

I am, and I've found it frustrating to have to search for jobs everyday on a bunch of different sites and forums. So, as a project for rock stars for hire (in collaboration with Rachel Weidinger and Alex Steed), I mashed together a tool that brings job posts to me by delivering them to my inbox every morning.

And the fun part is - you can use it too! Subscribe to a daily email newsletter of job opportunities here!

The newsletter/mashup works by automatically gathering social change & technology jobs from the following sites:

• Idealist.org Jobs

• Change.org Jobs

• SocialEdge Job Listings

• NOI Jobs

• NTEN Jobs

• DotOrg Jobs

• Indeed

• Mashable's Weekly Social Media & Marketing Roundups

• Yahoo Group - Nonprofit Tech Jobs

Job recruiters can also bookmark job postings in Delicious with the tag 'awesomejob' and they will be included in the newsletter.

It would be awesome to add a targeted world-wide Craigslist Jobs search (feeds only available per city), Progressive Exchange Jobs (feeds require log-in), a slice of Philanthropy News Digest Jobs (no feeds available), & a slice from Chronicle of Philanthropy Jobs (also no feeds available).

Ideas are welcome for getting these sites on board as well as suggestions for other sites & forums we should   add to make this resource more useful!

How it Works:

For the technically curious: The tools I used to make this mashup include Yahoo Pipes, Google Reader, and Nouri.sh.  

First, I grabbed RSS feeds for each of the job sites mentioned above. I grabbed the full RSS feeds for nonprofit + tech job resources like NOI's Jobs Group & NTEN Jobs. For more broad nonprofit/social change job sites like Idealist.org I did specific queries resembling 'web or online' to get the feeds for social change jobs with a technology slant. And for job sites that don't currently allow RSS feeds for specific queries, like Change.org Jobs, I took their full RSS feeds and piped them into Yahoo Pipes with filters also akin to 'web or online'. You can find a great tutorial on how to filter feeds with Yahoo Pipes by Marshall Kirkpatrick here. All this took (and takes) a bit of experimenting to filter jobs that have that 'awesome' feel.

After compiling a list of feeds, I subscribed to all of them via Google Reader, and added them to the same Folder (in this case, 'Fabulous Jobs'). After that, I went into Google Readers' Settings -> Folder & Tags -> and made that 'Fabulous Jobs' Folder public (by clicking the icon next to 'Private'). Now I was able to click "View Public Page to Your site" to access the public combined feed for all of the job sites I was tracking.Then I grabbed that page's RSS feed.

I could've just shared this comprehensive RSS feed - although took it a step further by heading over to Nouri.sh a tool that lets you easily convert any RSS Feed into an email newsletter. I added the Public Feed from Google Reader and *Walla*, had an email newsletter anyone could subscribe to.   Using Nouri.sh was simple & easy - You pretty much just sign up, add the feed(s) + some information, choose some options and you're done.

You could also use this approach to make an email newsletter for any kind of job search - as well as a way to make email newsletters for other topics you're interested in.  

There's a very good chance this process is way more convoluted than it needs to be - I would super appreciative of feedback for making it more streamlined & effective!

Good luck + Feedback Welcome!

Hopefully, this email newsletter will make a good addition to your job search's tool set. Keep in mind that it's just an experiment. Like I've been noticing a bunch of intern positions, which while cool, may not be your cup of tea. And it may (likely) miss things. Although I already discovered & applied for an opportunity that I doubt I would have found otherwise.

Please share feedback via the comments for making this tool better - (suggested feeds, more effective filters & process, etc.) so we can all benefit in our 'rock star' job searches!

Rock Star Photo by Guillaume Kayacan