Improved geo-location search

[Rottmair Sebastian]

Hi all,

I did work on the search for the UN Job List – and I hope I found a way to improve the search. In future you will be able to search jobs not just by duty station but by region / country and also multiple locations at the same time.

Head over here: https://unjoblist.org/s

And try the following values for Duty Station:

Example 1: “Rome Copenhagen” (no quotes) will give you jobs in both Copenhagen and Rome
https://unjoblist.org/results.php?dts=rome+copenhagen

Example 2: “Americas” (no quotes) will give you jobs in all of North and South America
https://unjoblist.org/results.php?dts=americas

Example 3: “Africa” (no quotes) will give you jobs in Africa
https://unjoblist.org/results.php?dts=Africa

Example 4: “Home” (not quotes) will give you home-based jobs
https://unjoblist.org/results.php?dts=home

I just implemented the changes over night. And I know not all jobs on the site currently are correctly tagged yet. I also know this only works online for now (not affecting the weekly newsletter).

But I have a few requests:
Can you test the system? Can you tell me what you think of the search? Can you tell me if/when you find any bugs?

Thanks!

[Rottmair Sebastian]

Hi all,

I need your help – what do you prefer?

Feel free to let me know in the comments below. Thanks!

[Anja]

Thanks. It works for me. Does this work for the newsletter, too? Or is this only for the page search?

[Anja]

I did more testing- I discovered that you can search for partial words in duty stations also – I like that. Is that intentional?

[Rottmair Sebastian]

Hi Anja,

yes, that’s intentional to make the search flexible

[Anja]

Okay thank you.

[Rottmair Sebastian]

Hi all,

since a majority asked for it (see the poll above) – I implemented the search to list all jobs in a country, when you look for the main duty station.

Example: https://unjoblist.org/results.php?dts=rome will list all Italian jobs even if the duty station is not specified.

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