Hacker News Job Board?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1133360

by aresant • 16 years ago

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Where do people that visit Hacker News go to search for jobs?

I realize we're in a community of entrepreneurs but better access to the talent that hangs out around here would be a tremendous resource for hiring managers.

Written out of frustration after spending 2 weeks sifting through bad resumes and monotonous interviews.

icey• 16 years ago

Honestly I think most of us end up finding jobs via word of mouth.

You just have to get 1 really awesome developer who hacks for fun. Then when you have to hire after that, you go to him (or her) first and ask them if any of their friends are looking for work. If you've got a good place, it will make recruiting way easier. If not... I've had surprisingly good luck with Craigslist.

aresant3• 16 years ago

Great point - most of the best folks we've hired have been through personal referral but this time around we're looking to hire in a satellite office so much of it has had to be digital.

JimBastard• 16 years ago

go to local meetup groups for some of the technologies you are looking for.

if there aren't any local meetup groups start one.

aresant3• 16 years ago

Great idea to find local talent with the right passion.

ecaron• 16 years ago

On LinkUp, we put together a search engine that searches job openings with all YC companies (http://www.linkup.com/lists/Y_Combinator_Startups). LinkUp only searches company websites for job openings (purpose being to keep out duplicates and scams), we use RPXNow to let people login and UserVoice to get feedback from our community.

Beyond use, jobseekers are hanging out on Craigslist, Dice and Indeed. They should be spending as much time on LinkedIn, because its the networking that lands 70% of all new hires.

Magneus• 16 years ago

I'm only a student, so take my words with a grain of salt.

I don't mean to advertise for StackOverflow, but it struck me that an their job board would be the biggest competitor to a potential HN job board.

I find that jobs.stackoverflow.com is clean and seems to have consistently interesting postings. On the other hand, I'm not sure how many conversions they get, and the UI is rather basic.

They've also recently launched careers.stackoverflow.com, which integrates with StackOverflow accounts. The theory is that employers can scope out an applicant's know-how by glancing at his reputation and postings.

Anyway, as someone seeking employment, I echo your interest in finding a good solution. Good post.

aresant3• 16 years ago

The first question on our interview form is "do you use stack overflow, and if so what’s your profile".

Yet, I never knew they had a job board, til now <smacks forehead>

Great tip, thank you.

thinkcomp• 16 years ago

I share the frustration. We've been looking for people since roughly September. I've probably done 50 or so interviews and gone through five times as many resumes. Where is everybody? And why is there such a reluctance to structure data in communities like this? If people at least put their names, e-mail addresses, web sites, and skills or interests in their profiles, it would be a huge help.

pufuwozu• 16 years ago

Just letting you know, hiring managers can already target this audience:

http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

JayNeely• 16 years ago

That's only for YC-funded companies; no one else can post jobs there.

charlesju• 16 years ago

I will pay money to post my job openings on a Hacker News job board. Are there any YComb job companies? If not, I'd pitch one fast for the next round. Seems like an easy path towards distribution.

daeken• 16 years ago

I'd certainly be interested in this. I'm currently looking for work, and my normal connections aren't turning up much of anything.

(My profile has a link to a post I wrote up about looking for work, if anyone's looking for a contractor. </shameless-plug>)

japherwocky• 16 years ago

Am I eating crazy pills? I have a jobs board in my menu bar..

and i think there's some website where you can pitch a job idea and they'll give you $ to start a company.

anateus• 16 years ago

That's limited to job postings by YC companies.

Zak2• 16 years ago

It has crossed my mind that there's a need for a "hacker gigs" sort of job board. It would handle both contract gigs and full-time jobs for hackers, designers and the like, with an emphasis on attracting the sort of people who hang out here.

Quick survey: would you use something like that? To find jobs? To advertise jobs?

kmuzykov2• 16 years ago

I'd definitely used this kind of board, but I think there are web sites like e-lance or RAC for this, although level of the bigger part of devs there is low, but most of the companies hang there and everyone know that if you want to post job you must go there. In opposition I don't think a big number of job providers visits boards like this one.

Zak2• 16 years ago

A big number would not be a goal; people we would enjoy working with is the goal. So many project posted on other sites want code designed to run on $5/month shared hosting and offer to pay $100 for several hours, if not days of work.

What I have in mind would be low-volume, but high S/N ratio.

hooobs• 16 years ago

I would definitely use such a board for contract gigs. Full time gigs if I happened to lose my full time job or see a great startup.

kmuzykov2• 16 years ago

Finding a good developer/designer is always a hard task, and if someone reads Hacker News it is definitely a plus, but

1. I think it will be hard to find developer in the region you need. For this you better really visit your local group meeting(like JimBastard advised) or some educational institution to find some graduating students.

2.Someone reading Hacker News won't be a good developer/designer every time.

rglullis• 16 years ago

Oh, my: it's the fourth time in less than a month that I'm going to talk about my site, http://job4dev.com

It's free to post listings, provided you give enough information about the company and a good job description.

This site has been online for three years now, but it was only focused on the Brazilian market. Just recently we put a international version. We are working on new features that we hope will make the hiring process smarter, less of a trial-and-error approach.

Even without those features, I'd say without doubt that job4dev is where Brazilian hackers and qualified developers find out about job opportunities, when they can't find them through regular networking.

We want to make the same thing for all of the world, now. We need to break out of the chicken-and-egg problem, and I guess that HN is good place for that.

Please, take a look at the site: feel free to put your listing there, and feedback would be much appreciated.

rms• 16 years ago

Feel free to use Hacker News as your own personal job board. Just submit a link to your resume and/or portfolio as a link. A catchy headline might help.

Only YC companies are allowed to post under the jobs tab but anyone else can post that they are hiring or looking for a job.

noverloop• 16 years ago

37 signals' job board is quite nice and has some interesting jobs.

iamelgringo• 16 years ago

I run the Hackers and Founders meetup in Silicon Valley, and people often come up to me looking for devs. I don't send jobs out in our emails, but I do pass the word around if I know someone is hiring. Feel free to ping me with available gigs. Feel free to post gigs on our message board. That gets some traffic.

When people come to me asking for specific programming language experience, I usually point them to that technology specific meetup group here in Silicon Valley. I also point them to Craigslist. There's a ton of hiring that gets done via Craigstlist here.

I also know the other guys who host the HN/ Hackers and Founders meetups in Indianapolis, NY and Tel Aviv. I should ask them how they're approaching this problem. I'll ask them and post a response here.

I do have a friend who is currently looking for iPhone contract work, if that's what you need, definitely ping me.

BTW, I don't make a cent off this. I just like to help friends out if I can.

ventoli• 16 years ago

hey i was wondering if anyone would like to contact me about a large hacking/cracking project that im trying to get running , i need a couple of peoples help but the more the better and easier. if you are interested then email me at ventoli@hotmail.com

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