There’s a lot of moving and shaking in the WordPress community. Would a jobs thread here be beneficial? As a place where job seekers could post that they’re looking for work and / or available employers could post that they have positions available?
I think a good method for this might be a “who’s hiring” post like Hacker News does. What do you think? Worthwhile? Might not be immediate, but it’s always worth putting feelers out there. I personally feel that the key would be to make sure it’s legit people on both sides of the equation. Perhaps require links to portfolios or some other type of validation.
What do you think?
edit: I imagine this as a single post where people comment on that post. Not an influx of jobs posts. It would be very periodic (like once a month). By no means a core tenet of the site.
That sounds like a different site to me, Brian. Also, they exist (not to say that another one might not be worthwhile), e.g. http://jobs.wordpress.net/.
…or if not a different site, at least a different page…
Yep, I agree.
Funny, I’ve never really paid attention to the jobs.wordpress.net site. I guess I still see a ton of people saying they need this or that. And though technically that might be the same idea, it’s probably a different audience than that site. I don’t know, maybe I’m crazy : )
A lot of places already exist. But I admit it wouldn’t hurt to have a curated job/available listing.