Just read that 37 Signals has launched their own job board to “connect people and companies who value simplicity, great design, beautiful code, Getting Real, and usability … designers, programmers, or executives who "get it.’” <via lifehacker> Should be interesting to watch.
In the software engineering recruiting space, I’ve rarely found job boards to be an efficient use of my time or resources. Posting an open job tends to yield better results than sourcing through sites' resume databases ... but it's still a crapshoot. The volume of high quality candidates is low, and from speaking with those high quality candidates who do post their resumes on these sites, the bad recruiter spam can be quite high.
If I do invest, I go with Dice or Craigslist. These sites attract the highest quality software engineers. Perennials like Monster or HotJobs can occasionally produce results, if you have lots of patience, time, and a keen eye. And although I haven’t used it in a year or so, I’ve been disappointed with JustTechJobs … an exciting niche service that just didn't seem to pull in my exciting niche software engineers.
For jobseekers, the services to watch these days are sites like Indeed (blog) and SimplyHired (blog), vertical search engines in the job market space. These sites still don’t pick up all the jobs out there, but they are the best places to stop if you’re beginning your job search and want to get an idea of the market in your area or specialty.
What do you think? Let's share our job boards stories over in the JobSyntax forums …
gretchen