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Looking for a Job? Let GitHub Help
- SlyShy 17y agoI think this is a really neat idea. Lets people get some well deserved kickback from their open source coding, hopefully.
- patio11 17y agoI think Github is very adroit at extracting value from other people's open source coding. (I don't say that as a criticism of Github.)
- ionfish 17y agoI think this is true, but it's important to bear in mind how much they contribute back, not just through the community they support, but directly in terms of code they've open-sourced. They could get away with doing this a lot less than they do, and deserve credit for how dedicated they are to open-sourcing their code.
- davidw 17y agoNice idea, but I already maintain my resume, and a linkedin profile. I'd prefer to just link to those.
- vulpes 17y agoYou can easily link to your linked or external resume in the free form text field they provide.
- idoh 17y agoIt is a big text field - just put your links in there.
- forkandwait 17y agoNobody is twisting your arm....
- davidw 17y agoDude, it's just a suggestion. My guess is that I'm not the only one who doesn't want to maintain their CV in yet another place and that would appreciate a 'link/import' feature.
- stevejohnson 17y agoYou could do what I did and just link to another CV from your Github profile.
- gord 17y agoI was going to say cut-n-paste your blurb... [so you get keywords] But then it occurred to me that maybe doing cut and paste from webpage A to webpage B is a missing feature. I dont think microformats or frames answer this need well. It seems the most basic feature of a web mashup, so why dont we see this as a trivial standard? <div src=url id=div_id /> Ive used plone before as a companywide repo for project docs, but one feature I wanted was to do this for subsections of a page. This would have solved that problem.
- _pius 17y agoHow would this differ from iframes?
- gord 17y agoWithout knowing exactly why, my feeling is iframes are broken. If not.. why arent iframes used in say yahoo and google customisable home page mashups? Differences : granularity - share one div, not whole page scope - how should javascript interact between the inclusion and the whole page? [ Im not sure.. this wasn't on the radar when iframes were designed I guess ]
- pjhyett 17y agoWe'd prefer that, too, but LinkedIn hasn't responded to our request to use their API.
- psranga 17y agoThis is a really really good idea. I expect clued-in companies use this to search for developers instead of LinkedIn (if GitHub charges less than LinkedIn for access to the hiring profile). We'll finally have something like a "portfolio" for developers, where you can show your code in a slick UI instead of talking about it on your blog etc.
- jacoblyles 17y agoWhy would github have to charge less for a more valuable service?
- btilly 17y agoMajor potential flaw. If I am looking for a new job I'm generally not going to put that information anywhere my employer might find it because then I'd be concerned that the urgency of my job search might suddenly increase substantially. Therefore I don't want to put my information anywhere where employers might search and find me. Yes, they can put something on it to say, "Employer can't find their own employees." But that is too easy to circumvent either on purpose or accidentally through a clueless recruiter. I'd want to see the design of phase 2 before deciding whether I'd dare participate in phase 1.
- UncleOxidant 17y agoI'm not sure why they include the "available for hire" checkbox. Seems like if you didn't have that it wouldn't look like you were looking for work. Putting your info on LinkedIn, for example, doesn't automatically mean you're looking around. A lot of people in my work group, for example, are on LinkedIn (including our boss) and we don't assume that means they're looking. I'd suggest they lose the "available for hire" box.
- patio11 17y agoThat suggestion is (perhaps) in the users' interests, but it is directly against the customers' interests. Follow the money: prospective employers pay to identify/contact people who are actively looking for work. They are not interested in paying to contact people who will not accept job offers. Prospective employees pay nothing. They are not the customers of this system. It will serve their interests... when it is reasonably practical to do so without trodding on the toes of the paying customers. Prospective employers are not worried that prospective employees might find themselves suddenly separated from their previous employer -- indeed, that is sort of the general idea.
- btilly 17y agoTake it one step farther. After a couple of well-publicized bad situations they are likely to find the most desirable users becoming reluctant to check that checkbox. And then the model breaks down, which is not in anyone's interest. I hope they figure it out before that situation arises. But until I'm confident that they understand that, I won't be comfortable with that service.
- blasdel 17y agoThis is a much better idea than jobs.stackoverflow.com -- find people who have publicly produced something of executable value, rather than those that are publicly addicted to a MMO hint line.
- ciupicri 17y agoThere's no one stopping you to put links to your projects that are hosted on GitHub or somewhere else.
- icefox 17y agoInteresting feature, I wonder what caused it to come about. Perhaps GitHub is looking to hire and wanted first pick :D GitHub has a lot of little hidden features these days. The ability to do code review is there, but very hidden, any plans for improving that workflow? On the topic of hidden features is there a graph showing off what features people use (and don't?) I was recently told about one that has been around for a long time that I just didn't know about. no doubt there are others.
- thinkcomp 17y agoThis may be obvious, but how do I search GitHub as an employer? Do you just view a lot of different individual profiles?
- btilly 17y agoThe plan is that in phase 2 they will introduce a search interface for the convenience of employers.
- tomjen2 17y agoWe already have jobs.stackoverflow.com, joels job board, 37 signals job board. Can't people come up with new ways to generate revenue instead of mindlessly copying others?