Replacement for Stack Overflow jobs section?

Somebody please make OkCupid for Jobs. Both employers and applicants fill out questions that the community curates (so they can be job-specific, industry-specific, etc). Both employers and employees get matches via algorithm rather than receiving 100 random resumes or 100 random job suggestions that have nothing to do with you.

Existing sites do this, but very poorly, because they only try to detect information out of a resume and detect keywords in a job listing. There is only so much data you can gleam from those sources and it's highly variable. You need to ask specific questions, like "Is Functional Programming the best form of programming?" or "Do you prefer asynchronous communication when dealing with coworkers?", or "Do you like being in an office?", or "Do you like working in finance?".

For people like me, who have not heard about this: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-j...

> Jobs and Developer Story will no longer be supported as of April 1, 2022.

Google for Jobs. It's the job board killer.

I've been operating niche job boards for a decade, starting with angularjobs.com (for Angular developers).

Before this, the job ad aggregators (Indeed, Zip recruiter, Talent, Talroo, and LinkedIn) were probably* the best bet.

IMO, Google expects a return to business websites posting their jobs on their own domain[1]. This way, they can take all the job-ad $$$, too.

*99.99% of jobs on most job boards come from these sources, as "backfill". The ones that don't use the job ads (and often brag about it) are just paying other companies to scrape the same jobs from the company webpages so that the "job board" outranks them in SEO, and use that "advantage" to sell premium listings. When I was working on ETL with these sources, combined there were ~10MM unique job postings in the US (late 2020).

Edit: I wanted to add, be wary of job boards that pop up to fill this void. Anyone can create a job board in 2 minutes with Jobboard.io. However, building an audience, especially one that is worth advertising to, doesn't happen as quickly.

[1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/structure...

Thanks for the down votes. Would love to know which part of my anecdote was so offensive to you, though!

I've spent 10 years in the classifieds (including jobs) market as a software engineer...

As employee and/or employer I would go for more local/vertical websites/newsletters. There's no community such as StackOverflow outside of it, so you have to narrow down your scope somehow. Posting on LinkedIn is a mess. I've talked with many people looking for devs and they pay a lot of money for a lot of low-quality applications, it's even worse for remote companies: If they specifically state they look for people in EU timezones they'll receive anyway 100+ CVs from India or other countries.

So, LinkedIn is a mess, general job posting websites miss all the stuff a developer/company hiring developers needs, I love HN jobs but it's too much of a niche, remoteok or similar are too broad in scope.

There's space to build stuff and make some money if you play well your game.

Shameless plug: I recently launched one newsletter for remote-friendly companies hiring Italian developers that already reached ~900 subscribers and I already received requests for sponsorships. So there's interest in these kind of stuff.

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info @ fullremote . it if you want to reach out. :)

HN who wants to be hired/is hiring threads have so far the best ROI I've found.

I contacted StackOverflow to see if we could post a job. The sales rep said that they only took subscription accounts, not one-off postings. They were open and helpful, but as I only had one job to post, they said they couldn't help us. It was disappointing, as it's the kind of place I'd like our candidates to find us!

If you build the replacement, please accommodate places that don't have constant churn!

- https://remoteok.com/

- https://www.remote.io/

- https://remotive.io/

- https://weworkremotely.com/

- https://4dayweek.io/ (Disclaimer, I'm the founder)

There isn’t really anything as general as StackOverflow in the software world that I can think of.

Everything like https://remoteok.com and https://4dayweek.io is too niche. https://keyvalues.com maybe?

I’m building something for career switchers at https://CareerSwitchToCoding.com that’s nearly ready to go.

https://angel.co/jobs

I know this site likes to stay lean, but a jobs section outside of just YC companies would be cool.

As a job searcher in the UK I quite liked https://otta.com/. Nice concise job listings from mostly great.

No affiliation, I didn't end up taking a role found through them in even in the end!

Gergely Orosz put some alternatives to Stack Overflow Jobs:

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1457665269267116034

For companies/job seekers: I'm working on a remote job board called Remote Leaf[1], a curated remote job newsletter with a personalized jobs list based on the user's location/timezone and skills.

Happy to provide a special discount for companies posting their remote jobs. Just send me a private message on Twitter or email(in bio)[2]

1. https://remoteleaf.com

2. https://twitter.com/abinaya_rl

I'm very late to this thread but want to mention OfferZen[1]. They are massive in the dev job seeking space in South Africa, and I think as of recently a country or two in Europe. The company was conceived in SiValley but the founders opted to come back home to RSA to try it out[2].

The gist of how it works as a dev is that you do an automated entrance test (if you're a junior - and it was quite easy IME), and once you are in you set up your profile and wait for companies to contact you about positions they want to fill. You then decide (with input from your assigned 'career coach' if you wish) whether you want to go forward with an interview etc. For myself and everyone I've spoken to who has used the service, it was a great experience. Infinitely better than trawling through Indeed and such.

More reading here[3]

[1] https://www.offerzen.com/

[2] https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/328018

[3] http://docs.offerzen.com/en/articles/5977855-what-makes-job-...

I hope you'll permit me to gush about the UK job board https://cord.co/, I got my last job from there and there is something about cord that has forced companies to offer very quick turnaround in the interview process, which I greatly appreciate. That, combined with almost always having the salary and having nicely laid out standardised job descriptions, has made it my favourite job board by far.

We've been featuring 3 devtools companies that are hiring for technical roles in the weekly https://console.dev/ newsletter since the start of this year. It's been seeing some very good click -> application rates.

We're now in the process of building out profiles on the website and are working with the companies to add interesting details about things like dev processes, tools used, tech stack, how planning works, how on-call works, etc.

Bit different from what SO does/did with our devtools focus. Our inspiration is the Joel Test, if anyone remembers that! https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

Closest I can think of is weworkremotely.com (formerly wfh.io) - at least if you're looking for remote work :)

Whos hiring, on hackernews has given me the best replies, I think because its slightly personal when you email and say i came from hn. It got me a few interviews from which I got several offers, one of which I took.

Applying on places like angellist/SO jobs etc gave me little in the way of success.

I built https://golang.cafe as a niche curated job board and community for Go. I found myself jobs through it and so did many other Go engineers.

What is different to other boards:

- only job postings with clear salary ranges

- no recruiter spam, apply to companies directly

- hand curated and reviewed jobs

- open source

- filter by minimum salary

When I m not looking for a Go job I just go straight to LinkedIn

Also I know there was a curated list of job board alternatives here https://stackoverflowjobsalternatives.com/ still all very niche I think

I vote for https://www.trueup.io/

I'd say maybe remoteok.com but it focuses sole on remote jobs. I know Pietr Levels was looking for a way to add features that would draw SO users to RemoteOk when he learned SO job board was shutting down. Might be worth a look.

paging https://www.stackoverflowjobsalternatives.com/

as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30134135#30160083

Surprised no one has mentioned https://hired.com

I mean, if you're specialized in FPGA or RTL design, the answer is obviously the job board I help run:

www.rtljobs.com

Katz is restarting GeekList to fill that void along with some other features

angel.co is also nice, got my last job from there.

I’m working on a search engine with TL;DR for the job posting.

You can read the job highlights in a snap and then decide to read the full description. You can also search as you type and filter jobs with salary or signup bonuses.

Still a work in progress, but you can take a look:

https://www.jobadsnow.com

edit: I forgot to mention that currently, it is US-only jobs.