Show HN: SecurityOverboard, a job board for information security positions

by icanhasfay • 12 years ago

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freehunter• 12 years ago

This could be really helpful (I'm sitting at work right now as an information security employee, so I don't want to browse the site too much). I was recently looking for a new job in information security as an experienced candidate and many of the existing job search sites really let me down. I know this is one of the fastest growing segments of the industry, there's next to no unemployment, and salaries have potential to be incredible. But when I was looking, there was nothing. Nothing on Monster, nothing on CareerBuilder, and hardly even anything on Dice. I found more positions by going to a company's website and looking through their individual openings.

I don't know if it's that companies don't want to post their security positions or if the existing sites are poorly equipped to meet that specific need, but it was just terrible. Did I end up at the place I wanted for the salary I wanted? Sure. Did I end up at the best place I was capable of working at the highest salary I am capable of earning? I doubt it, because, according to Monster, CareerBuilder, and Dice.com, there are no information security positions within 50 miles of Pittsburgh and there haven't been for at least the past six months.

icanhasfay4• 12 years ago

Thanks for checking out the site. I can definitely attest to the difficulty in finding InfoSec positions on generic job boards as I was in the same position around a year and a half ago. As you mentioned, most of the positions on those job boards were either old postings, not actually relevant to InfoSec or posted through a recruitment agencies. This led me to practically writing regex's through the sites' filtering systems just to get back relevant postings. Having run through the problems firsthand, I wanted to try and solve these pain points by creating a community-driven job board for InfoSec positions, aka SecurityOverboard.

daenney• 12 years ago

The name/URL caused me to assume it was a satiric site about throwing security overboard.

It looks pretty neat, though I'm wondering how you'll make sure the content stays up to date. Manually crawling or relying on the community to post them might let you down.

icanhasfay4• 12 years ago

Hah, I definitely see how you can get that from the name. I was aiming for a mashup between Information Security and JobBoard without making the domain name too long or too bland. I think the site will have to rely on a little of both for it to really take hold. Thanks for checking out the site.

draker• 12 years ago

You should create a tagline that uses "jumping ship" to play off of overboard.

"Current job making you want to jump ship? Find the security position you want and get back on board quickly with SecurityOverboard."

andrewstuart• 12 years ago

Needs an option to search by "smokes pot/does not smoke pot" http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/fbi-chief-says-an...

relampago• 12 years ago

Very cool and nice job. I agree with 'freehunter,' AngelList Jobs and Cyber Coders is pretty scant too.

Will this board include InfoSec positions in operations, marketing, sales, etc fields?

A non-engineer seeking an in into this industry here, experiencing same headaches.

icanhasfay4• 12 years ago

Thanks! Unfortunately, the current aim is to keep the job board to mainly hands-on/in-the-field InfoSec positions. However I would have to say that the companies that do make the job board list would be a much better starting point for you than scraping around generic job boards for positions.

Show HN: SecurityOverboard, a job board for information security positions

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