Geoff, We've had a reasonable degree of success with the Whirlpool jobs board on a variety of different roles and I'd have to say that this stands out as the single most useful site we've used. Tech forums that are closely aligned with the role you're looking for are generally the most useful for us (though I haven't ever gone looking for UX/frontend forums).
We still occasionally run with Seek if we're not getting applications from other source but rarely actually end up employing anyone that has responded to seek ads and always question the value of it. Major problem is that we get lots of applications but the quality and relevance of the applications is most often very poor. We recently tried the Linkedin jobs service and but didn't see much interest. We've also tried stackoverflow/serverfault but again not much interest. I'm not sure how much AU exposure these two get and we've only tried each once so it's a small sample size. Many of the universities run jobs boards, a bit of digging required to find and some are charging fees which in my view are unreasonably high. Perhaps the Grad Connections boys would have a current list? Hitting up both your own social circle (passively - twitter status, linkedin status, actively - targeted contact) and those of your existing team members can be very effective. We've had some fantastic finds using this method. We find it's usually something you have to prompt, as a business owner/founder you think about recruitment but as an employee even if you know your company is hiring I don't think it automatically prompts a search of your network for possibilities. The very good people to me generally have jobs and chances are they're not actively looking when you're hiring so getting to these people is half the challenge. I'm quite opposed to poaching (it always hurts when you loose a great team member, it hurts more when they've been actively targeted). That said - we do see applications from people who have been forwarded our ads from friends/colleagues who aren't actively looking themselves. Making someone want to forward your ad comes back largely to the way you craft it, selling the opportunity, making it different, humour etc. Michael Overell from Recruit Loop (www.recruitloop.com) pitched at the recent Syd Start event - it's a new business but looks like quite an interesting service and may be worth a try. Whilst not a tool for finding candidates - we also take a very different view in respect to making offers to people who are currently employed vs those that aren't. If you're not quite 100% certain on an applicant and that person doesn't have a job, the month or so it takes to be certain may well be paying their rent or getting them out of a bind. The second benefit is they're generally available immediately vs a 2-4 week notice period. On the flipside doing this to someone that has otherwise ongoing employment is not fair if a month later they're out of work. Over all, for Anchor, the further away we get from anywhere a recruitment firm might post roles and the closer we get to where enthusiasts might hang out the better the applicants we see. Hope this helps. Andrew Rogers On 03/10/2011, at 1:22 PM, Geoff McQueen wrote: > We're recruiting again, and I thought I'd check in and see if there was any > SBA wisdom on good places to put ads/listings for tech roles, particularly > UX/frontend roles. > > There's always Seek etc, but I was wondering if people had experience (good > or bad) with other platforms? > > I know there's the occasional post to this list about available roles, but it > strikes me that most of the people here are entrepreneurs and not looking for > jobs; advice on what has and hasn't worked in getting a good group of > candidates might be something the brainstrust here has more experience with. > > -- > Geoff McQueen > Founder & CEO > Hiive Systems > > Phone: 1.877.425.7315 (US) - 1800 2 44483 (AU) > Cell/Mobile: 650.450.4384 (US) - 0414.678.466 (AU) > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. 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