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Re:Aaron Swartz launches Job Book, an encyclopedia of jobs by cglee on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @02:42PM (#74304)
The problem with job/salary surveys is that the people who respond tend to skew towards the more satisfied and higher paid range. That's why when I was in undergrad, all the jobs seemed so darn great - the companies sent the happiest, chirpiest employees they could find.

On a separate note, does jobbook.org look a bit under developed for a publicized app that "took several months"? Maybe there's magic behind that simple UI.

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Re:Aaron Swartz launches Job Book, an encyclopedia of jobs by run4yourlives on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @02:50PM (#74311)
ding ding.

Personal salary surveys are considered so inaccurate that HR firms won't bother to do them. I saw something similar with salaryscout.com.

HR pros usually ignore salary data from employee sources.

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Re:Aaron Swartz launches Job Book, an encyclopedia of jobs by webology on Tuesday October 30, 2007 @11:32PM (#74490)
It was rather disappointing but I'm sure it will grow in time. It just seemed like yet another wiki for Aaron but I was surprised too at the "several months" comment.
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