The behavior you describe happens if you have cookies disabled. Our site is not usable without cookies. Reenable cookies and try again. If you are still unsatisfied with the expression parser, e-mail me and I'll send you the code for you to evaluate and critique...
Our system is set up to allow you to enter as many prior jobs as you wish. We were having a problem with Netscape in entering multiple jobs, but I'm told that has been fixed as of this morning. I'll look into it and ensure that it has been fixed.
As for the number of jobs... We have 2,756 jobs which I will admit is a very small number but that is growing at a rate of about 50-60 jobs per day. We are actively working on building partnerships to increase the number of job postings per day. We are a startup, and we have to start somewhere.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you are having problems or if you have suggestions. We're working very hard to make our system the best it can be.
One last note about cookies... We intend to release our state maintenance module (state.pm) under the GPL as soon as it's a bit more robust and feature-rich. This is how cookies are used... Sessions are simply deleted after 6 hours of inactivity.
Also, we're starting up our affiliates program for those who are interested... You put our search form, or a special link on your page, and you get $5 every time someone who comes to our site through that form or link and submits their resume...
http://neuro.bpower.com for those who are interested...
Fair warning: The sign-up process is still being tested and may be a smidge buggy... Please notify me of any errors you encounter...
Do you have cookies disabled? If so, that would cause this sort of problem.
Cookies must be enabled to use our site. They are not used to invade your privacy, but rather they are used to make the functionality on our site more robust and rich.
In theory, "past performance is not an indication of future performance" is a good idea, but unfortunately I've followed one too many newsgroups where some twerp or group of twerps comes in and starts trying to ruin the group for everyone! I like the idea of mass "non-fatal" moderation (scoring instead of killing messages) and I think the "default" score makes a good complement to the idea.
The "default" score system might be bad if there were few moderators in a high traffic system -- the mods might not even read lower-scored messages to evaluate them, but with hundreds of moderators I don't think that will be a problem.
I have noticed though a disturbingly large number of "Just posting to see what my score is" posts. Perhaps this should be displayed on the user account page to prevent such posts?
IIRC, a cookie can be set to be domain-level, so a cookie set by www.slashdot.org can be read by cachedot.slashdot.org, www.slashdot.org, fubar.slashdot.org, whatever.slashdot.org, and even foo.bar.cachedot.slashdot.org...
But I believe you have to explicitly say to do so when setting it...
You'll notice that we don't run ads on our site, and you may not be aware of it, but unlike MonsterBoard/OCC and others, we are not owned by anyone. (MonsterBoard is, as you said, owned by a marketing company)
The CEO here is a fed up former-customer of Dice. He was a recruiter that got tired of using services that were ineffective and largely unhelpful. Part of the reason these services haven't been helpful in getting people jobs is specifically because their search features are so poor, it's hard for recruiters/companies to fidn candidates that match their needs.
We have a pain-in-the-butt resume submittal process admittedly, but our search features are much more precise, which in the long run should save the recuiters/companies time (they get only mostly qualified candidates on search results), and save you time. (you don't get as many superfluous calls from recruiters/companies that don't understand your minimum requirements)
Since we are a startup, traffic to our site is pretty low right now but we have over 350 clients (recruiters/companies) and several thousand jobs. We're ramping up our marketing and partnership efforts in an effort to get more candidates/clients/etc...
Until we really get going, it'll be hard for us to get any kind of stats on hiring rate and such...
It's probably not a good statistical measure, but we have a feature for clients that let's them make note of a candidate for future reference... Sort of like bookmarking a page... 221 distinct candidates have been "SmartListed" -- that is, added to this list. That's actually a pretty high number given our relatively low traffic...
And there are other advantages to using our service... We're planning on open-sourcing a whole lot of the code we've been writing -- we're generalizing it into a toolset for building sophisticated web applications, and our affiliates program is a good way to make some *cash*... (http://neuro.bpower.com in case you are interested...:>)
I know, you want hiring numbers, but right now we're not even sure of them! When we are, we'll probably make them publicly available. (Although, I can't make any guarantees since I'm not a PHB or anything... Just an engineer...)
Anyway, if you have any further questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
That's because there is a city named Austin in: AR, CO, IN, KY, MN, NC, NV, PA, and TX.
Little Rock, AR is "near" Austin, AR.
There seems to be a bug in my search code though, since there are 5 such jobs in Austin, TX... Do an "exact" search and you'll find those.
I intend to renovate the location search very shortly, and will implement a more elegant notation so you can be more precise... (I.E. clarify that you are only interested in jobs near Austin *TX*, and thus exclude jobs in Austin, *AR*)
I'd like to apologize, the Perl errors were a result of my failing to update Rob on some changes I had made recently. Everything should be better now...
Remember to go to BrainPower through SlashDot so that Rob et al get credit for your traffic...:)
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Again, this would seem to be an issue of having cookies disabled. Is that the case? How many results did you get?
A search for jobs near Philadelphia (when cookies are enabled) returns 38 results for me. (all default values...)
If you had cookies disabled, please enable them and try again.
The behavior you describe happens if you have cookies disabled. Our site is not usable without cookies. Reenable cookies and try again. If you are still unsatisfied with the expression parser, e-mail me and I'll send you the code for you to evaluate and critique...
-JF
Our system is set up to allow you to enter as many prior jobs as you wish. We were having a problem with Netscape in entering multiple jobs, but I'm told that has been fixed as of this morning. I'll look into it and ensure that it has been fixed.
As for the number of jobs... We have 2,756 jobs which I will admit is a very small number but that is growing at a rate of about 50-60 jobs per day. We are actively working on building partnerships to increase the number of job postings per day. We are a startup, and we have to start somewhere.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you are having problems or if you have suggestions. We're working very hard to make our system the best it can be.
-JF
One last note about cookies... We intend to release our state maintenance module (state.pm) under the GPL as soon as it's a bit more robust and feature-rich. This is how cookies are used... Sessions are simply deleted after 6 hours of inactivity.
Also, we're starting up our affiliates program for those who are interested... You put our search form, or a special link on your page, and you get $5 every time someone who comes to our site through that form or link and submits their resume...
http://neuro.bpower.com for those who are interested...
Fair warning: The sign-up process is still being tested and may be a smidge buggy... Please notify me of any errors you encounter...
-JF
Do you have cookies disabled? If so, that would cause this sort of problem.
Cookies must be enabled to use our site. They are not used to invade your privacy, but rather they are used to make the functionality on our site more robust and rich.
We just put a new location search system online...
You can now search for
Austin, TX
And only get jobs around Austin Texas... Thus, the Little Rock jobs (near Austin Arkansas) wont come up.
In theory, "past performance is not an indication of future performance" is a good idea, but unfortunately I've followed one too many newsgroups where some twerp or group of twerps comes in and starts trying to ruin the group for everyone! I like the idea of mass "non-fatal" moderation (scoring instead of killing messages) and I think the "default" score makes a good complement to the idea.
The "default" score system might be bad if there were few moderators in a high traffic system -- the mods might not even read lower-scored messages to evaluate them, but with hundreds of moderators I don't think that will be a problem.
I have noticed though a disturbingly large number of "Just posting to see what my score is" posts. Perhaps this should be displayed on the user account page to prevent such posts?
IIRC, a cookie can be set to be domain-level, so a cookie set by www.slashdot.org can be read by cachedot.slashdot.org, www.slashdot.org, fubar.slashdot.org, whatever.slashdot.org, and even foo.bar.cachedot.slashdot.org...
But I believe you have to explicitly say to do so when setting it...
You'll notice that we don't run ads on our site, and you may not be aware of it, but unlike MonsterBoard/OCC and others, we are not owned by anyone. (MonsterBoard is, as you said, owned by a marketing company)
:>)
The CEO here is a fed up former-customer of Dice. He was a recruiter that got tired of using services that were ineffective and largely unhelpful. Part of the reason these services haven't been helpful in getting people jobs is specifically because their search features are so poor, it's hard for recruiters/companies to fidn candidates that match their needs.
We have a pain-in-the-butt resume submittal process admittedly, but our search features are much more precise, which in the long run should save the recuiters/companies time (they get only mostly qualified candidates on search results), and save you time. (you don't get as many superfluous calls from recruiters/companies that don't understand your minimum requirements)
Since we are a startup, traffic to our site is pretty low right now but we have over 350 clients (recruiters/companies) and several thousand jobs. We're ramping up our marketing and partnership efforts in an effort to get more candidates/clients/etc...
Until we really get going, it'll be hard for us to get any kind of stats on hiring rate and such...
It's probably not a good statistical measure, but we have a feature for clients that let's them make note of a candidate for future reference... Sort of like bookmarking a page... 221 distinct candidates have been "SmartListed" -- that is, added to this list. That's actually a pretty high number given our relatively low traffic...
And there are other advantages to using our service... We're planning on open-sourcing a whole lot of the code we've been writing -- we're generalizing it into a toolset for building sophisticated web applications, and our affiliates program is a good way to make some *cash*... (http://neuro.bpower.com in case you are interested...
I know, you want hiring numbers, but right now we're not even sure of them! When we are, we'll probably make them publicly available. (Although, I can't make any guarantees since I'm not a PHB or anything... Just an engineer...)
Anyway, if you have any further questions, please feel free to e-mail me.
That's because there is a city named Austin in: AR, CO, IN, KY, MN, NC, NV, PA, and TX.
Little Rock, AR is "near" Austin, AR.
There seems to be a bug in my search code though, since there are 5 such jobs in Austin, TX... Do an "exact" search and you'll find those.
I intend to renovate the location search very shortly, and will implement a more elegant notation so you can be more precise... (I.E. clarify that you are only interested in jobs near Austin *TX*, and thus exclude jobs in Austin, *AR*)
I'd like to apologize, the Perl errors were a result of my failing to update Rob on some changes I had made recently. Everything should be better now...
:)
Remember to go to BrainPower through SlashDot so that Rob et al get credit for your traffic...
Anyway, my apologies for the problems...