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Get A Job With Reddit Jobs. Or At Least Vote On One.

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Greetings! If you're hiring, here's 50% off a 30day job posting: coupon code "HackerNews" (no quotes).

Granted, it's the same deal as the TechCrunch coupon, but it says HackerNews in the coupon!

And if you'd like to learn more about redditjobs (and the meaning of life) read this entry: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/06/reddit-already-helps-you-wast...

I may have missed it, but are all jobs listed on redditJobs also shown in the advert spot on reddit itself?

If so, cool. If not, how will job hunters come by redditJobs?

There's a nifty widget we're dropping in later today. In fact, we're doublechecking with our sales team to make sure removing banner ads from programming.reddit altogether (replacing them with the job widget) won't interfere with any signed deals. I think proggit readers would prefer that over traditional ads.

How many proggit readers even see ads?

I'd say about 90-95%. Also if the ads are served locally, adblock etc won't block them by default unless you do something silly like call your page advert.html.

I can't recall the last time I saw an ad on reddit, but it's quite possible I blocked them myself at some point. I would be genuinely surprised if most technically-savvy people didn't do the same.

I've been developing for several years, and I usually visually tune them out.

I only adblock the companies that do pop-ups/pop-unders, or verbal ads. Flashblock tends to take care of the worse offenders anyway. If the ads are supporting a community then, I figure they deserve the change to appear, even if I'm probably not going to do anything with them.

Same thing with the PVR ... if it's an interesting looking commercial, I'll occasionally go back to watch it the first time I see it.

Of course, that might just be me.

I block ads I notice - a nice catch-22 for ad purveyors.

You're an outlier - an oddity. For example, on mibbit.com (Very tech audience) adblock usage is about 6%.

jobs for subreddits is a more focussed audience.

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Lisp!!!->python->asp??? I'm just damn confused now ;) What's next? Frontpage? ActiveX?

Cool idea though :)

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Oh, uh, what do you mean?

Actually, these gents are responsible for everything you see on redditjobs.com except for the alien in a suit: http://www.jobalchemist.com/

It looks like a re-brand of http://startuply.com/ and probably uses their backend. (Firebug says they're IIS, too)

A couple of things:

a) The site should say a ton more on the front page. Frankly I don't really understand what it does. Is it a standalone job board, or do the listings automatically appear on the the actual reddit site?

b) Starting price is fairly high. If the thing will automatically appear on reddit, then it might be justified somewhat, but even then, its pretty easy to get frontpage on programming reddit. If the thing doesn't appear on reddit, then the prices are just plain insane, why would I pay $300 or even $175 for something that gets no traffic.

c) If I like the job, why would I upvote it so that I get more competition?

RedditJobs will definitely leverage reddit's (large) community - the volume will be there.

as for (c), voting doesn't affect the ranking of the jobs. We record the votes and share them with employers to get them some feedback on how their jobs are perceived.

Do you really want employers getting into a popularity contest though?

It may change how a company presents itself but I can't imagine it'll cause any of them to really change their company to make it more developer friendly.

Cool idea, but what I'd really like to see is a better way to find short-term freelance gigs. The options I'm aware of are currently so unsatisfactory I'm half considering making a startup to fix it.

I love the inclusion of alignment in the profiles, though I don't think companies can be trusted to accurately rate themselves on the good/evil axis.

v2 will let users rate them, too :) should be some interesting data to compare a company's perception of itself vs. reality

The companies as a whole, or the accuracy of individual parts of their self-description? It would be very interesting to have the latter.

How long until "/b/ jobs"?

If you like a job why would you vote it up when it will increase competition for the job?

The voting feature is as close to a useless feature as I can imagine. Not only is the voting prone to abuse since it is not in the user's interest to promote jobs to others. But if you do vote, it's more like an Iranian voting system. Your vote has no effect on the user experience of the site itself. It's just information that's tallied for statistical purposes for the companies who post jobs. Hard to see what sets this site apart from, say, Craigslist, except that Craigslist provides a more reliable indicator of job popularity - people applying for jobs. So another social site launches a job board - does this really need to be on Techcrunch or Hacker News? Very disappointing.

+1 for "Iranian voting system".

I think you're overlooking the added value of the company profile attributes. To wit, where else would you learn that your potential employer can't roll a Paladin? e.g., (see Alignment) http://www.redditjobs.com/Companies/reddit-com-1.aspx

Awesome job JomAlchemist and Reddit. The company profile attributes is a funny, but strangely useful tool, especially the "good vs. evil alignment"

One of the main distinctions between redditJobs and Craigslist is that redditJobs is explicitly designed & built to be a resource for connecting the reddit community with interested employers. That's why you see "social sites" with job boards - because they create value for both the community and growing companies.

As for the voting - we'll watch what happens with and see how we can make the data useful to job seekers as well as companies.

what if the system used your votes to determine which jobs to show you in the future?

also craigslist gets a much broader demographic, to the point that it's almost useless for filling a specialized position. by posting something on HN (though I don't know about reddit) there's a feeling that we share at least some ideological ground.

On the other hand, it will be nicely satisfying to deliver downvotes to any "10+ Years Senior Developer Must Have 20 Years Experience With Java $15/hour" listings.

Is it me, or is it funny that on the job postings are the bevvy of links (Reddit, Digg, Delicious, Twitter, etc) when this is supposed to be Reddit?

Also, 'reddit this' is nowhere near as catchy as 'Spreddit', which is a verb, and a clever word.

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