Job Board

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Kiran Jonnalagadda

One of the common requests we get at our events is for help with recruiting. The economy is currently in a state where available jobs outnumber qualified candidates, so companies are doing their best to make working for them worthwhile. The one big problem, however, is with getting the word out on available positions.

HasGeek, on the other hand, is in the business of talking to developers. We evangelize upcoming technology that shows promise, and the true test of its viability is in whether you can find a job that uses it.

A job board that connects these two makes perfect sense, so we built one. It’s in beta with many rough edges, but poke around and tell us what you think. Are the available job types and categories appropriate? Should there be more, or fewer? What is the primary criteria by which you look for a job? By the location? Whether it’s full or part-time? Whether programming or management oriented?

We want to structure navigation around the way people look for jobs, so your feedback is important. We will be rapidly iterating with ideas to get it in shape in time for AndroidCamp on April 1.

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  • http://ashwin.zaatar.org Ashwin Nanjappa

    Searching by technologies (C++, C#, etc.) would be useful. Tags or even plain text search on these would be fine.

    • http://jace.zaiki.in/ Kiran Jonnalagadda

      Tags are a great idea. I’m thinking of making them a moderator feature — moderators add tags rather than the original posters, to protect against SEO-style optimizers. Not sure this is a good idea though.

      • Ashwin Nanjappa

        Good idea not to allow public to create new tags. The number of tags is small in reality and does not really change every day. For a start, only your webadmin can have perms to add them from the backend. No need to build some huge machinery just so that new tags can be created by users. Waste of time and effort!

      • Amit

        Found your job board via HSI. Great idea, very clean as opposed to the regular ones I am used to seeing. Few thoughts: Are you pnanning on using moderators for deleting posts for positions that are filled ? If you wont have that information, it would be useful in my viewto have a date range filter or maybe stack up the posts by date or maybe different color post-it’ s by date so that it is visually easy to see how long ago this was posted. I see you have a ‘report this’ on each post. If you are not planning to indicate flagged posts then you probaby should incorporate it. I too think you should stick with moderators to manage tags.

        • http://jace.zaiki.in/ Kiran Jonnalagadda

          Hi Amit,

          Yes, I’m working on a moderator interface. Moderators will be in charge of clearing spam. Since job applications are not made through the site, there is no way for us to know if the position is still available. The company that made the post can delete it if they need to.

          The main page shows the last 30 days of posts. Showing age instead of date is a good idea. I’ll add that to the feature queue.

          The Report This feature was added yesterday. Flagging reported posts is coming next.

          Thanks for the suggestions!

  • ZP

    I like how the site looks, nice skeuomorphic aesthetic.

    I think category tags (could be locations and job types) would be quite useful. Some way to sort out the different post-it notes which will make it easy to access information according to what one is looking for.

  • Pradip Caulagi

    Interesting. How are you going to differentiate from several others like http://careers.stackoverflow.com/?

    • http://jace.zaiki.in/ Kiran Jonnalagadda

      It’s a boutique job board, only serving the communities HasGeek is involved with. There’s no ambition to be the one true job board, and there’s space for many more like this.

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