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To me, what's exciting about SO Careers is the volume of people using it. Like all markets, you need large quantities of both buyers and sellers present to mak
by michael_dorfman 16y ago
To me, what's exciting about SO Careers is the volume of people using it. Like all markets, you need large quantities of both buyers and sellers present to make things interesting.
In the case of SO Careers, the initial traction came from SO (which in turn got its initial traction from the readers of Jeff and Joel's respective blogs.)
Anyone wishing to compete with SO Careers better have a very good strategy for gaining traction (and not depend on the quality of the software, etc. to attract people on both sides.)
- revorad 16y agoFrom the blog post: it's more successful than StackOverflow Careers on most metrics in the UK. We run more job ads, our jobs get viewed by more developers, we get more applications/job and we have more satisfied customers. Focusing on one country is probably a good way to compete against a global jobs board.
- robryan 16y agoIt's about attracting the right kind of listings, from a quick look it doesn't seem like their quality of listing is overly high. If I was coming to coder stack without knowing anything about the site they don't really sell me with a couple of paragraphs of about us. I'd add a link to the blog somewhere on the page to, give a bit more of a feel for the site.
- shaggyfrog 16y ago"Volume" is relative. I'm totally underwhelmed about the number of employers from my neck of the woods using SO Careers (Vancouver, Canada). It's not like there aren't a lot of high-tech companies and a solid IT scene located here. What's the deal?