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Another factor is growing awareness of the Who's Hiring thread. Anecdote: My company isn't hiring any more or less people than they used to be, but we never c

Another factor is growing awareness of the Who's Hiring thread. Anecdote: My company isn't hiring any more or less people than they used to be, but we never considered the Hacker News Who's Hiring thread as a recruiting venue until I pitched it to upper management rather recently. So that's at least one example of new jobs appearing here that aren't necessarily new jobs in the economy, just new to Hacker News. I'd be willing to bet other employers who began posting job ads here rather recently have similar stories. I doubt all the growth is strictly related to the tech hiring economy growing faster. Much more likely a combination of solid macroeconomic growth with Hacker News' (and similar venues') own growth combined with growing acceptance of advertising jobs this way by employers and employees.

20years 10y ago
I agree. What kind of results did your company get from your HN post compared to some of the other venues?
- kethinov 10y ago
  Several of our applicants can be traced back to the Who's Hiring threads and I'm pretty sure at least one of our new hires in the last few months came from someone who found us via one of those threads. Not 100% sure; I'd have to ask the person on question if my assumption is correct. But we only just started doing this a few months ago. Plus our hiring needs are pretty specific and aren't likely to align well with the majority of HN job seekers for a wide variety of reasons. As such we don't expect a flood of applicants from this venue. We don't need a huge amount of people though, so we're willing to be patient with it, keep posting our ad, and wait for the right handful of people to come along. At the moment our highest ROI recruiting efforts are old-fashioned college recruiting events. We do a few different kinds at a handful of universities near us and found it to be a deep well of talented people eager to break into the field and we have a pretty solid training program to take entry level people and turn them into solidly productive engineers rather rapidly.
  - 20years 10y ago
    "we have a pretty solid training program to take entry level people and turn them into solidly productive engineers rather rapidly" Love reading that!!

20years 10y ago

I agree. What kind of results did your company get from your HN post compared to some of the other venues?

kethinov 10y ago
Several of our applicants can be traced back to the Who's Hiring threads and I'm pretty sure at least one of our new hires in the last few months came from someone who found us via one of those threads. Not 100% sure; I'd have to ask the person on question if my assumption is correct. But we only just started doing this a few months ago. Plus our hiring needs are pretty specific and aren't likely to align well with the majority of HN job seekers for a wide variety of reasons. As such we don't expect a flood of applicants from this venue. We don't need a huge amount of people though, so we're willing to be patient with it, keep posting our ad, and wait for the right handful of people to come along. At the moment our highest ROI recruiting efforts are old-fashioned college recruiting events. We do a few different kinds at a handful of universities near us and found it to be a deep well of talented people eager to break into the field and we have a pretty solid training program to take entry level people and turn them into solidly productive engineers rather rapidly.
- 20years 10y ago
  "we have a pretty solid training program to take entry level people and turn them into solidly productive engineers rather rapidly" Love reading that!!