I think this is a great idea, but, are Job Boards the new "thing" for "community-type" sites to implement?
37Signals, StackOverflow, GitHub, ... But hey, they're all full of job postings, right?
37Signals, StackOverflow, GitHub, ... But hey, they're all full of job postings, right?
I'm not saying our new jobs site is the magic bullet, but it's an area of software development that we think is lacking, and there's a ton of things we'd like to build to help improve it. This is the first step.
The unfortunate thing is that all these add-on job board solutions don't really go any way towards fixing the problem.
With the greatest respect in the world; I don't see this being a lot different (though I would be overjoyed to be proven wrong! :)). Not for any other reason that it is not really GH's focus...
See; it would be really cool to see this integrated with GH proper. With payment mechanisms so you could write a spec, post an ad, get someone sign up, code the work and then collect the payment. That's the sort of job board you should do :)
For the "real world" there is a lot of work to do for programming jobs - most of the offerings work for big corps and mid/large startups. Smaller indie firms like the one I work for struggle to find good local talent and there is just no one catering for us. And that is a huge market (I know at least 10 firms with the same problem within about 5 miles of where I work - in a sleepy market town).
As for this being different, I don't think it is supposed to be. But I guess we will find out once it actually launches.
Community sites implement job boards not because they're the hot new thing, but because they're trivial to implement and wildly profitable.
To the people adding them, there isn't very many reasons not to add them.
If they can place these ads for 30 days on 10 of these little, influential sites, they're already ahead.