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| * [[http://jobs.37signals.com/|37Signals]] and [[http://careers.stackoverflow.com/|Stack Overflow Careers]] are both technical communities which cater to developers and have good job boards. Expensive, though. | * [[http://jobs.37signals.com/|37Signals]] and [[http://careers.stackoverflow.com/|Stack Overflow Careers]] are both technical communities which cater to developers and have good job boards. Expensive, though. | ||
| * Some big blogs/magazines have good job sites, such as [[http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/|Smashing Jobs]], [[http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/|TechCrunch Jobs]] and [[http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/|Joel on Software Jobs]]. | * Some big blogs/magazines have good job sites, such as [[http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/|Smashing Jobs]], [[http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/|TechCrunch Jobs]] and [[http://jobs.joelonsoftware.com/|Joel on Software Jobs]]. | ||
| - | * Last (and perhaps least), there are the major job sites such as Yahoo’s [[http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/|HotJobs]], [[http://www.careerbuilder.com/|CareerBuilder]], [[http://www.monster.com/|Monster]], and [[http://www.dice.com/|Dice]]. I've really never had good luck with these; I think if you're a big company and want to advertise your nice safe corporate job, its probably OK. But not for startups. | + | * Last (and perhaps least), there are the major job sites such as [[http://www.careerbuilder.com/|CareerBuilder]], [[http://www.monster.com/|Monster]], and [[http://www.dice.com/|Dice]]. I've really never had good luck with these; I think if you're a big company and want to advertise your nice safe corporate job, its probably OK. But not for startups. |
| * **Job Boards - A few notes:** If you go this route, write a good job description. You’ll want to include a description of your company, a list of requirements, a list of responsibilities for the person, and contact info. You should write it truthfully (obviously) but make it sound as interesting as you can. If you’re a hot startup that’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal and just closed a $15mm round of financing, //say so//. You can use my [[:people:hr:sample-job-descriptions:home|job description templates]] to get you started. \\ \\ Finally, consider doing the **turing test**: add a challenge to your job description to help figure out if the respondent is a computer or a human. OK, they're all human, but some people actually care about your job and would make a good candidate. Others simply throw out a resume to every job posted, and its hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Somewhere near the bottom, I like to bury a sentence with a challenge: //If you've read this far, and really want this job, here's what you need to do: find the last name of our CEO, and put it in the subject line of your email. We're filtering these responses into a separate box for special consideration.// Some people who are resume spam-bots will still do it, but most won't. Your signal to noise ratio will go up a lot. | * **Job Boards - A few notes:** If you go this route, write a good job description. You’ll want to include a description of your company, a list of requirements, a list of responsibilities for the person, and contact info. You should write it truthfully (obviously) but make it sound as interesting as you can. If you’re a hot startup that’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal and just closed a $15mm round of financing, //say so//. You can use my [[:people:hr:sample-job-descriptions:home|job description templates]] to get you started. \\ \\ Finally, consider doing the **turing test**: add a challenge to your job description to help figure out if the respondent is a computer or a human. OK, they're all human, but some people actually care about your job and would make a good candidate. Others simply throw out a resume to every job posted, and its hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Somewhere near the bottom, I like to bury a sentence with a challenge: //If you've read this far, and really want this job, here's what you need to do: find the last name of our CEO, and put it in the subject line of your email. We're filtering these responses into a separate box for special consideration.// Some people who are resume spam-bots will still do it, but most won't. Your signal to noise ratio will go up a lot. | ||