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A comment on Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do better?.

Re:Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do... by whichdan on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:25PM (#4994053)
HN itself is the biggest bottleneck, IMO. A few days after the thread has been posted, it gets paginated, usually into 3 or 4 pages. Assuming you Cmd+F/Ctrl-F for a couple keywords (remote, state, city), you end up having to do 10+ searches, in addition to weeding out the "no remote" matches. On the same note, it's very hard to keep track of new posts after the first day or two, which means you're searching for "minutes ago" "hours ago" "1 day ago" "2 days ago" etc - again, on 3 or 4 pages.

I know there's one user who maintains a site that lists all of the job postings (forgot the url), but personally I'm not a huge fan of the layout.

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Re:Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do... by lazyjones on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @04:59PM (#4994180)
Indeed, it might be a good idea to have 2/3 separate threads for US/Europe/Asia... or US/Rest of the world since postings regarding jobs in Europe are hardly visible at all.
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Re:Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do... by jamesjguthrie on Friday January 04, 2013 @06:01PM (#5010519)
I totally agree with this. I'd much prefer a separate Euro post.
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Re:Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do... by pknerd on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @08:38PM (#4994864)
There should be a separate section for WhoIsHiring on Main Page ordered by month wise.
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Re:Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do... by yolesaber on Tuesday January 01, 2013 @09:31PM (#4995012)
It should really be merged into the "Jobs" section. That makes the most sense to me.
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Re:Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do... by malandrew on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @01:20AM (#4995534)
Totally agree. YC companies can still maintain their advantage by having their listings "stickied"/pinned to the top of the page. In fact, this may help YC companies, since knowing that lots of startups are listed on the jobs page should drive a lot more traffic to that part of HN.
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Re:Ask HN: Have the whoishiring posts been useful? Can we do... by meganelacarte on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @04:43PM (#5028694)
Agreed. I'm a recruiter for a YC company and I would love to see a higher level of functionality with a jobs-specific area focused on all startups. We've gotten some of our most talented candidates and employees from HN.
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