so this is more or less an mvp to see if people find value in the idea. the idea grew out of my own frustration of how much job boards suck. if you are not living in SF finding a job as a software developer is far from a solved problem...
It isn't as hard in all areas - while I was in DC, I was getting ~3 emails a day from recruiters. I was able to score in person interviews in hours, even unsolicited at meetups.
Granted, in smaller places, getting a job in software engineering can be challenging, but it isn't too bad in many metropolitan locales, assuming you do the standard things software engineers should do to improve.
like the idea, although it is pretty much covered by many other job sites as they have this feature already.
Where are you sourcing the jobs from? This would be perfect if it aggregated jobs from all the other job sites. Searching for remote jobs (which I am interested in) in particular is a pain - and is actually why I signed up once I saw that was an option...
yes, right now it is aggregated from job boards that i think are of high quality (github, stackoverflow, angellist, etc). but honestly, if you are living outside of tech hubs like SF, New York, Berlin etc, google is still your best bet to find jobs.
its a chicken and egg problem. i was recently looking for a job myself, in a small-ish city (200k people) in germany... and the job boards mentioned above were all completely useless. small companies in small cities don't post jobs in those job boards. its not worth it for them. posting a job at stackoverflow is something like 600 dollars.
i dont have an definite answer yet, all i know is, there must be a better way for finding jobs then google... right now i think i can offer this service, by just manually filling the system with high quality jobs matching all of my users critereas... someday i think this can be automated...
i look at those boards regularly, some jobs are US-only but not all. on https://www.wfh.io, since march we've had 19% of jobs posted that are open to those in a particular country only.
I've already got jobs for software developers delivered to my inbox from the copious amount of recruiters emailing me... So incredibly annoying! I swear, they just spam every potential candidate for every job. The WORST!
Power electronics (troubleshooting and support, but no design), systems engineering[1], real-time embedded software (radar signal processor, so "big" embedded), and NLP. My resume is linked through my website in my profile here.
This is a good skill set for San Jose or Austin, not so great for Dallas unless you want to work for one or two of the local telecom companies that are still investing in engineering here.
I'm not limiting myself to Dallas. My original comment was more about the propensity of recruiters to not look outside the local area of the job they are trying to fill. If you aren't already in the area the recruiters are not beating your door down.
How many of those are CyberCoders? I've heard that their software is setup so that every time a recruiter there does a search, it e-mails every single matching candidate in their database. A single search results in roughly 5000 e-mails. As a result, they dwarf the e-mail volume of every other recruiter out there.
my bad. that shouldn't be possible. check remote only, if you are just interested in jobs that allow remote work. check include remote if you are interested in both remote jobs and also jobs at your location. check none if you are only interested in jobs at your location. sorry about that...
What is the search radius on this? Will I only get jobs for the specific location I enter?
It's a great start, and I hope you can continue to develop it. Being in Dallas I end up having to actively search out opportunities when I am looking, because the recruiters rarely come to me.
I'd be happy to share the code with you and you could switch out the sites I'm scraping with the ones you look at. The whole thing runs on a cronjob that just re-generates the HTML every hour.
Right now when I look I usually use Indeed and StackOverflow. I gave up on the big boys (Monster, CareerBuilder, Dice) because the sites are so polluted by recruiters and the filtering tools are so poor.
I'd love to try your scraper. I've thought about doing something like that before, particularly since I have started doing lots of web scraping for work and I am much more comfortable with it. Do you have any issues with sites that actively or passively discourage scrapers?
Nope, haven't run into any issues. I scrape Craigslist from RSS and the others from the HTML. I only hit the sites once an hour, and leave a unique browser string so they can filter me out of their analytics.
My e-mail is in my profile and I'll be happy to send over the code.
no you shouldn't have too... the database seems to be the bootleneck. on my plan heroku limits concurrent connections to 20. just try to sign up again...again, sorry about that, i didn't carefully plan to be on the frontpage
1. Radius. My location is Olympia, WA (about an 60-90 minutes south of Seattle). Does that include Seattle jobs? It seems like that should be on a person-by-person basis. Some people here do commute into Seattle. For me, though, Seattle jobs would just be noise.
2. Maybe another set of checkboxes for common technology stacks?
3. I didn't receive a confirmation or verification email to confirm my signup. (Maybe it hasn't come yet)
Thanks, for those of us outside the big metro areas, this could be helpful.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 133 ms ] threadGranted, in smaller places, getting a job in software engineering can be challenging, but it isn't too bad in many metropolitan locales, assuming you do the standard things software engineers should do to improve.
Where are you sourcing the jobs from? This would be perfect if it aggregated jobs from all the other job sites. Searching for remote jobs (which I am interested in) in particular is a pain - and is actually why I signed up once I saw that was an option...
its a chicken and egg problem. i was recently looking for a job myself, in a small-ish city (200k people) in germany... and the job boards mentioned above were all completely useless. small companies in small cities don't post jobs in those job boards. its not worth it for them. posting a job at stackoverflow is something like 600 dollars.
i dont have an definite answer yet, all i know is, there must be a better way for finding jobs then google... right now i think i can offer this service, by just manually filling the system with high quality jobs matching all of my users critereas... someday i think this can be automated...
[1] This kind: http://www.incose.org/practice/fellowsconsensus.aspx
Stick "ASP.NET MVC" in your resume or on your LinkedIn and you'll get swamped.
remote, office
It's a great start, and I hope you can continue to develop it. Being in Dallas I end up having to actively search out opportunities when I am looking, because the recruiters rarely come to me.
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I'd be happy to share the code with you and you could switch out the sites I'm scraping with the ones you look at. The whole thing runs on a cronjob that just re-generates the HTML every hour.
I'd love to try your scraper. I've thought about doing something like that before, particularly since I have started doing lots of web scraping for work and I am much more comfortable with it. Do you have any issues with sites that actively or passively discourage scrapers?
My e-mail is in my profile and I'll be happy to send over the code.
Also: don't fail the form if I don't enter a location.
A few thoughts:
1. Radius. My location is Olympia, WA (about an 60-90 minutes south of Seattle). Does that include Seattle jobs? It seems like that should be on a person-by-person basis. Some people here do commute into Seattle. For me, though, Seattle jobs would just be noise.
2. Maybe another set of checkboxes for common technology stacks?
3. I didn't receive a confirmation or verification email to confirm my signup. (Maybe it hasn't come yet)
Thanks, for those of us outside the big metro areas, this could be helpful.