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I think your idea is superb, but your website would be better if there was a way to search through all the available jobs to see if there is anything in particular of interest.

For instance, it would be useful to be able to see which funded companies were looking for a junior designer and then be able to look at the actual job postings themselves (e.g. via link to that company's website).

I hope you have great success with this event. I have a friend attending and there's a good chance I will come down from Leeds one day to take a look at one of your future events.

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I've been looking through the website since the second rounds was announced and I think that the companies should all be tagged with what field they do stuff in and what technologies they use. For example Eduvee.com, I can see what they do but not whether they use Ruby, Python, or PHP.

And relevant to this thread. You should get the companies that want to take on Graduates to have a big 'Graduate Wanted' flag!

Thanks for the feedback. We'll consider adding a list of all available jobs, that's a good idea.

Re Leeds - how did your friend who is coming hear about the event? Are there email lists that we should have targeted that we didn't?

My friend moved to London from Leeds and works for a design company somewhere near the roundabout.

I'm not aware of any groups up here in Leeds that meet regularly and cater for hackers interested in working for a startup.

I've been to a couple of talks/beers with the local Linux User Group but I do miss the opportunity to talk about things a bit more web- or startup-specific.

I hear you guys have a bit of an after-work drinking scene going on down there and I'm jealous!

When I lived in Leeds I used to attend the Open Coffee meetings (monthly) and the BarCamps (annually), where people would talk about start-ups and start-up events, so you could target these meetings (if they are still going). I doubt you could target students directly without appearing to be spammers.

You (perhaps collectively with other roundabouters) could try holding some sort of competition for students. I am sure academics at universities would help to promote something like that to their students and you would be able to see which students are capable of building things and getting things done, i.e. which are potential hires. It could also expose students to the types of work, and the style of working, that occurs at a start-up.

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