I was perusing the popular delicious links and found a new job site: SimplyHired, which bills itself as “building the largest job database on the planet.” Its pretty fast and lets you do searches without any commitment.
So, I searched for the different Java IDEs to see what came up. Here’s the results, ranked by most job matches to the least:
eclipse java = 1723 matches
jbuilder java = 879 matches
jdeveloper java = 341 matches
netbeans java = 128 matches
intellij java = 95 matches (actually this should probably be higher as some people refer to it as just IDEA, but I couldn’t figure out how to filter out listings that said things like “must have good ideas”…)
visual cafe java = 47 matches (people still use this?)
notepad java = 9 matches ;)
java by itself netted 71,327 matches vs c# with 19,252 matches (c++ doesn’t pull up what you think it will, unfortunately, so can’t make a good comparison)
Note that these were not limited to any region, so they’re all around the U.S.
It sure seems like they have a lot of listings (over 3 million according to their PR). I think they somehow index other sites like Monster, Dice, CareerBuilder, etc.
Some cool features:
1. They’ve got a blog
2. They have a LinkedIn feature called “who do i know?” that lets you see if you have any contacts at the company who is advertising for a job. That’s probably the best use for LinkedIn that I’ve seen.
3. You can rate job listings like you would rate a movie in NetFlix
What is LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is a professional (as opposed to social like Friendster) networking tool.
This is a side comment, but I hope the IDE is listed for informational purposes only in the job listing. As in, if you work here, we’d prefer/require that you use Ecliplse/Idea/JBuilder/etc on a daily basis. And not, we require that you have “Eclipse experience” or else, don’t apply. After all, it’s just an IDE, not rocket science. :-)
PS- I’m an ex-Vim (on NT), ex-SlickEdit, recent Eclipse convert. Although, I still use scintilla for quick and dirty edits.
I’d like to see a search that requires actual Eclipse experience, as in plug-in development. Got anything like that?
Also, is there any site where you can post or find jobs that are remote, no travel or relocation just do them from any location?
SimplyHired is a terrific Web site. Here, too, jobs.Just-Posted.com (http://www.jobs.just-posted.com) is one terrific site …it features mSEARCH! – a vertical job search engine that instantly delivers matching job leads by browser or email. Fast. Free.