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Tech Job Postings Are Down 40% On Popular Job Boards (medium.com)
Tech job postings are down 40% year-on-year, says Cameron Moll, founder of job board Authentic Jobs. He says that job volume for April 2016 was nearly half the volume of April 2015, and currently, annual job posting volume is 63% on the platform compared to 2015, and 59% compared to 2014. But wait, there is always a chance that it is only his website that is getting less popular, right? Mr. Moll adds that it's not just his job board, but several of the competitors' as well. From a blog post: On one hand, we're cautious to assume that fewer jobs posted = fewer jobs available. We recognize companies have many avenues for advertising available jobs -- social media, recruiters, employee word-of-mouth, company websites, etc. Companies may choose at any time to broadcast jobs through these channels instead of a job board. So, for all intents and purposes, it's feasible the same number of jobs are available this year compared to previous years, just not on job boards. On the other hand, our volume trends have been very consistent the past four years. However, these trends are suddenly meaningless in 2016. It's anyone's guess what our volume will be each month regardless of what the historical data says.
None of this bad stuff would have happened if that Donald Trump hadn't fooled those idiot 'Muricans into voting to leave the EU!
If there's one thing that's a confirmed fact from reading Slashdot's editorial spin: If you aren't in the EU you might as well kill yourself now because you either live in the utopian paradise of the EU or you live in Somalia and there's literally no shades of gray.
Just look at the third world hellhole that is Switzerland compared to the economic powerhouse of Greece if you don't believe me!
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I assume this is focused stateside? The articles doesn't provide much in the way of clues.
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I'm a senior level developers and it seems to me that recruiters are going straight to the source instead of posting.
I get at least 5 to 10 emails or linked in posts per week pumping my ego and trying to get me to join the latest hot startup!!! Bean bag chairs!!! On site dry cleaning!!! Ping pong!!! Stock options that may actually be worth something.... Or not!!!!
That's been a boom-and-bust sub-industry within the larger software market, since it got off the ground in 1995. Don't confuse that with the IT job market as a whole.
Ariel Winter's Instagram postings seem to be up about 41% with about 28% more skin.
Qualified individuals are hard to come by. It's not the fact that there aren't jobs. We just don't have time to interview 20k practically worthless applicants to find that one hotshot that knows his stuff. There are alternatives. I research github accounts.
RTFA, and you'll discover the following:
- The 40% figure is based solely on the author's job board (which this article was meant to promote).
- He makes some vague claims that he's "been tracking a few of our closest competitors for a couple years," and that data "trends along" with theirs, but he offers no concrete numbers, and the the plot he provides actually shows no such thing.
- The author provides no real, provable explanation as to why this is (supposedly) happening.
He may still be accidentally right about the jobs market, but this article really says only one thing: that 40% fewer people are using Authentic Jobs. And I'm more willing to conclude from that that they're getting their asses kicked by Indeed and LinkedIn.
job boards are not that useful, and recruiters know that. I've seen stats that say 10-percent of jobs get filled through job boards. the balance are networking (45-pct) and old fashioned poaching (45-pct)
Actually I'm being hit up by recruiters more than ever, but maybe it's just because I'm so awesome.
I live in the Seattle area - lots of jobs. More like use of his site is down. Indeed, Careerbuilder, Craigslist - all full of jobs.
There have been a ton of niche job boards crop up over the past few years, which are targeted to precise audiences and that are creating more competition.
In other words, he's getting his butt kicked by the competition. But he's in denial, so he blames the job market.
My first thought is that perhaps employers are figuring out that with many job boards largely full of scammy recruiters (No, I didn't check the board that's the subject of the article), and don't want to play in that kind of sandbox anymore.
A thousand pounds of wood moving at 300 feet per minute. Don't get in the way.
At least where I live. Combine with in house software for referral links, and i dont miss job boards.
Wait until you hit 60. Or even 50. Too old for tech, too inexperienced at anything else.
Ain't that the truth!
And folks who aren't in the business still think things are like they were in 1999 and wonder why you can't get work. And folks who are but either still in their 20s just brush you off because "if you were any good and have the skills, you'd have a job."
My brother just hit 50 and he's afraid of losing his job - he's training H1-b replacements with a promise of an eventual promotion. He sees the writing on the wall since his last promotion was canceled due to a reorg and is looking for another job. There isn't anything out there.
WTF happened to this business? When I got into it in the early 90s, I thought I would be doing this until I retired - like the 'old timers' I worked with at the time. You used to be able to retire as a tech person - I knew people who did.
Don't forget the jobs posted by HR that reads like your dating profile.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
So what is expected of a developer in a field where free software is by far the exception? Commercial video games are non-free far more often than not, as are player software for rented movies and (U.S.) income tax return preparation software.
It may just as well be that the number of competing job boards doubles ever year and the postings distribute equally. Reminds me of TV channels: they kept increasing until eventually no one cared anymore and cut cable all together and became more selective again about what they subscribe to (netflix, hulu, hbo, etc.). With this constant increase in job boards, they may all become collective irrelevant eventually and maybe people are indeed no longer posting jobs on them. So maybe both of these effects are at play? a job-boards bubble?
The top job boards are all shit. So much as look at your account sideways and you'll be inundated with useless fucking spam from a guy named Deepak (It's always fucking Deepak, too) who has some $15 an hour phone support position in Detroit that he thinks your 30 years of software engineering experience would be perfect for. If a company is posting a position on a job board, it's because they're paying severely under market, have a shitty working environment, or are planning to get rid of that position in less than a year, so they don't want to incur the $10,000 or so referral that they'd typically pay to a recruiting company. Maybe all three. Really, the only reason to keep an eye on the job boards is to give you a good idea of who in the area NOT to work for.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
After a couple years of retirement my health allows me to work again, so people don't need all those others anymore.
No telling when the long hours will bring on the burnout again though.
the crash is on!
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I don't want to hang out with the "popular" kids. I want to go to the alternate job boards. The unpopular ones. The ones where people who want to be different and not be a sheeple.
I'm sitting here in Boston. I keep in touch with a couple of people who are on the sales / account management side of a larger staffing firm in the Boston area. A couple of weeks ago, I asked these reps about the market, since I felt the job market had slowed significantly over a year ago. The reps immediately agreed with me that the market had softened, but they weren't sure if this was an overall slowdown or whether budgets had been exhausted.
Look around. If you've been on summer vacation, I bet you see less people running around. Even Disney's crowds are 7 percent lower than a year ago.
We are slipping back into recession, so job opportunities will be fewer.
I'm sure some of you will point out the Bay Area is still a hot market. Thanks, but I'd rather not spend every cent I make on rent and taxes.
I work in Recruiting Industry creating software for things like career portals, job boards, and tools recruiters use to hire. The scuttlebutt is that companies realized that the candidates they get from their career portals as opposed to job boards tended to be more likely proper fit and also would stick with the company for much longer than someone from a job board. This could finally be filtering in through the industry. If you use a Job Board you are going to look at thousands of resumes and the guy will stick around for a year and jump ship. That costs companies money.
If you want realistically track this use a real job site like dice or careerbuilder, not some two bit site nobody has even heard of.