For a while now, we've been trying to think of good ways to allow the readers of OSNews to find OS or tech-related jobs, or find new employees for their companies. We've partnered with CareerBuilder, for a start, so if you're looking for a job, (or want to fill one) check it out.. But what else could we do? Would you like to see a place where people can post OS-related tech jobs? Let us know in the comments of this story. On this subject, Openwave, maker of the popular mobile phone web browser, is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on the core of their next generation mobile browser: "Must have demonstrable, extensive, real-world experience, a deep understanding of C and a working knowledge of C++." Openwave's web browser engineering team has a long history demonstrating and testing with OSNews' mobile site (screenshot), so we thought we give them a hand by posting this.
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I find it interesting that there are plenty of web sites that cater to specialized audiences, in technology or otherwise, but that such specialization doesn't seem to apply to recruiting sites. I don't expect people who read OSnews to be representative of the general population, and that specificity would be a good vehicle to offer a good match between job offers and candidates.
I hope that Joel's board will work, but I'm afraid that it's only a matter of time until it starts to get "spammed" by low-quality postings. Of course he can differentiate his offering by pricing his service in a class where he doesn't have to deal with monsters (pun intended).
It's conceivable that a job posting syndication system could be interesting, in a way that allows to submit a post in a centralized system, and to select where that post gets published, with a princing scheme that discourages employers from abusing the system (it has to be high enough that posting jobs that wouldn't appeal to the readserhip of a specialized site would not be economically justified).
In a nutshell, the problem with recruiting is strictly one of quality, not quantity. It almost seems to me that Google would have the expertise, culture and brand image that would put them in a good position to make it happen.
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Speaking for my group at Sun Microsystems, we would love for OSNews to have an OSNews-specific vehicle for us to post job openings. (I can't tell you how hard it is for me to resist to urge to post an opening right here and now -- but I feel that that would not be in the spirit of the discussion, which is more about the value of a such a facility.) While I welcome the partnership with CareerBuilder, we find that the signal-to-noise ratio on the big sites is pretty bad; is OSNews considering its own Joel-on-software-style job posting facility?