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jeremy 03-06-2012 01:14 PM

New LQ Job Marketplace
 
Based on feedback in this thread, I'm happy to announce that we've launched a new LQ Job Marketplace. If you have any questions or comments, let us know.

--jeremy

ButterflyMelissa 03-08-2012 10:36 AM

Hi Jeremy,

Thourough and quick...too bad I did'nt have this tool six/seven years ago, when I was looking for an IT job...
But...no loss, I've got a job in distribution now...and I'm tha happiest flea in the fur :D

Good job on the ... job page

Thor

sparc86 03-14-2012 11:49 PM

Nice, but I cannot apply for jobs in Switzerland, for example. I am currently living in Brazil, however, as a German citizen I am eligible to work in Switzerland, so that's quite non sense... :(

ljanicki 03-15-2012 07:34 AM

This looks like a great resource both for finding employment opportunities and keeping informed on what skills are in demand. Thank you.

freecloud 03-15-2012 08:14 AM

What function It own ? I do not understand What is "job markeplace"

the_penguinator 03-15-2012 08:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sparc86 (Post 4627086)
Nice, but I cannot apply for jobs in Switzerland, for example. I am currently living in Brazil, however, as a German citizen I am eligible to work in Switzerland, so that's quite non sense... :(

similar here...I'm Canadian but have the ability to work in the EU due to my Scottish parentage...if the contact info is there, send the application anyway...nothing to lose!

rtmex 03-15-2012 03:57 PM

It will be nice if you can search for online jobs or jobs at distance, I mean, there are many jobs that does not requiere that the employee is on the same building or even country that his employer. I don't care if the company that is offering the job is in Germany and I live on Africa for example, if I can do the job (such as software development, web master, server administration, etc.). I have not seen any job finding tool that let you search using that filter, and I think that on year 2012 that's kind of incredible.

Just feedback :)

rayfward 03-15-2012 04:06 PM

Hmm International Linux jobs. Couple of months ago I saw a post offering a reward for and I quote.
"Up to £1000 referral reward for recommending an Embedded Linux Engineer". At first I thought cheek then I thought may be not such a bad idea. Posting and helping your community is a great advertisement. I wonder if recruiters ever look at our pages, the person with the reward obviously did.

frankbell 03-15-2012 08:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by freecloud (Post 4627418)
I do not understand What is "job markeplace"

It's not really a market. That's just a label. It's a forum where persons who have jobs available can advertise their openings.

The difficult part is getting persons to post openings here. I got lucky--an employer who uses Linux posted an opening and I landed a job. What we need here at LQ is more employers posting openings.

I suspect that a lot of employers don't even know about LQ, let alone know that LQ is full of Linux geeks who want opportunities to work with Linux. If they did, there would be more openings posted.

I don't care that jobs might be posted here that are outside of my area. I would just like to see more visibility for LQ and LQ users.

Manu_chitradurga 03-15-2012 10:46 PM

Its good idea, to start the LQ job market. The people who are let them apply. Many people are looking for the good and right opportunity. Its helpful for them. I wish all the best.

Robert.Thompson 03-16-2012 11:03 AM

Looks good! :)

Can you display a column for the country flags from where applicants are eligible to apply?

freecloud 03-16-2012 11:04 PM

Oh! I have poor knowledge about linux and computer language. I am worry can't write a software about your require.

rayfward 03-17-2012 02:13 AM

I don't how it works anywhere else but in the UK Employers use recruitment agency's heavily and recruiters collect potential employees by the bucket load. I agree with frankbell the first hurdle is getting employers to look at LQ but I would find it objectionable if recruitment agency's posted just collect more people.

sternone 03-17-2012 02:47 AM

Hi, thanks for this great list. I couldn't apply for a EU job 100miles from my city because it was in another country. Remember if you can work in the EU you can work in every country of the EU, not only your home country.

ButterflyMelissa 03-17-2012 06:36 AM

@freecloud
Quote:

What function It own ? I do not understand What is "job markeplace"
It's a place to find a job...in IT. Need a job? Go to that page...

In belgium, there are quite a few of those, none are specific for IT jobs, and not at all with that global footprint...

sparc86 03-17-2012 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the_penguinator (Post 4627425)
similar here...I'm Canadian but have the ability to work in the EU due to my Scottish parentage...if the contact info is there, send the application anyway...nothing to lose!

Unfortunately there is no "contact info" for the vacancy I was looking for (Sysadmin in Switzerland) and the same happens to all the others I have checked, therefore no way to apply. Check for yourself...

Erfankam 03-19-2012 02:42 PM

My dream
 
Hi.
I think, that is a good idea. I have not yet interested job, what I always dream.
With this facility, I hope get a good one.

Skaperen 03-19-2012 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rtmex (Post 4627751)
It will be nice if you can search for online jobs or jobs at distance, I mean, there are many jobs that does not requiere that the employee is on the same building or even country that his employer. I don't care if the company that is offering the job is in Germany and I live on Africa for example, if I can do the job (such as software development, web master, server administration, etc.). I have not seen any job finding tool that let you search using that filter, and I think that on year 2012 that's kind of incredible.

Just feedback :)

I think this is good feedback. I currently work in a job at a distance from home. And it's system administration, which is usually a much tougher job to work at a distance (but I have in fact successfully replaced one distro with another entirely by remote access, and this wasn't a virtual machine). If I end up having to look for new employment, I would certainly like to do the same thing (the distance part ... I could do some programming, too).

I think the biggest problem with this Jobs board is that it is not run by someone who has a user experience passion that we can talk directly with. It is outsourced. And that's probably the only option available, as running one inhouse at LQ is going to start out empty and that's (now days, anyway) very, very hard to grow from.

I do have many ideas to make a great jobs website user experience, and have yet seen none of them actually deployed at any site.

Look at the Job Function menu. All IT jobs are lumped together. Most IT people despise this because it doesn't help. IT jobs should be broken down. At least this site did allow multiple-click on these (some don't and that makes them worse). LQ readers are generally all going to be either hobbyists who have fun with Linux, small business owners running their own computers, academics, or IT professionals.

Programmer jobs need to have choices of programming language and operating systems in many cases. Networking jobs need choices of the equipment and systems they are interested in.

And these searches need to be based on positive matches, not negative matches. On many job boards, string search is the only available tool. But it does not work. I can put "linux" in as a keyword, and it would match a job that requires 10 years Windows administration experience and just mentions "knowledge of Linux a plus". That's just wrong.

And then there is the "work at a distance issue". If the job form at least included that option, managers might start thinking about it.

Now if only these details about how the whole site architecture should be like could reach the passionate people at jobthread.com, maybe we might see the first great job board in the future. But for now, their model seems to be more about taking a legacy job board design and opening it for integration at other sites.

Erfankam 03-19-2012 09:44 PM

Thanks for your suggestions. There were great. Thanks again.

Satyaveer Arya 04-03-2012 09:32 PM

Now, this is something really helpful for those who are seeking jobs. Hope they would get some help from here.
Good work.

ajaxme 05-07-2012 10:03 PM

Can you display a column for the country flags from where applicants are eligible to apply?

jeremy 05-08-2012 10:17 AM

Thanks for the feedback. We don't have any specific plans to implement this feature, but will keep it in mind as a future enhancement.

--jeremy

sparc86 05-08-2012 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ajaxme (Post 4672950)
Can you display a column for the country flags from where applicants are eligible to apply?

That's what I mean, how can the website even KNOWS to which countries I am or not eligible to work? I currently cannot apply for jobs outside Brazil, however, I am a German citizen and therefore it shouldn't be an issue. The same happens to many other people.

IMHO, I think this "feature" of blocking applications outside the country should just be disable.

jeremy 05-08-2012 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sparc86 (Post 4673495)
IMHO, I think this "feature" of blocking applications outside the country should just be disable.

To my understanding it is something that the job poster has requested (and it's a per job setting they don't have to enable). I'll pass the suggestion along though.

--jeremy

aliwaris092 07-09-2012 02:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by satyaveer arya (Post 4644137)
now, this is something really helpful for those who are seeking jobs. Hope they would get some help from here.
Good work.

i have done rhce and rhcsa and i am fresher in this fieldstayinG in mumbai if you know any vacancies then please guide me

skyer_biz 07-09-2012 03:20 AM

New LQ Job Marketplace
 
Nice, but I cannot apply for jobs in Switzerland, for example. I am currently living in Brazil, however, as a German citizen I am eligible to work in Switzerland,

skyerbiz[dot]com

hamidi2 11-01-2012 12:52 AM

since programming may be done remotely, is it possible that someone from an abroad country apply for a job in the site?

jeremy 11-01-2012 08:29 AM

It's up to the individual job poster whether they would like to allow/accept remote or telecommuting applications.

--jeremy

mantu55 12-24-2012 12:31 AM

LQ Job MarketPlace
 
Very nice idea, which will help the people interested.


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