Ruby job board, community support

[Dan Janowski]

Ruby is never a solitary skill, but when it is a primary skill it is
indicative of a world view. People that think of themselves as
primarily Ruby programmers really want to find work where Ruby is the
primary means of development. Throwing those jobs into the morass of
non-Ruby listings on general purpose job sites can only result in their
getting lost and, at minimum, losing the significance of being a Ruby
job.

Considering the size of the Ruby community, I think it would serve both
halves of the Ruby employment equation to have a job board that is Ruby
focused and to link to it from ruby-lang and a variety of other places.

Say what you will about other ways to increase Ruby's popularity, but
nothing has the effect like people being paid to use it. The only
downside I can think of is if there are no jobs to be found.

Are there other Ruby jobs out there? How are they advertised and
filled? Does anyone else think there would be a benefit in having a
Ruby-centric place for developers to post CVs and employers to post
jobs?

I would very much like to have answers to these questions. I am willing
to deploy a job board, but only if I am not the only one advertising
and only if others in this community can see (and tell me) that there
is a market.

I hope to hear from from you.

Dan

 

[vikkous]

I for one would love to see this. If you made a ruby jobs site, I would
post my resume there in a minute. So would half the others here. (The
other half would post in the second minute...)

As you say, tho, the problem is not finding ruby programmers. It's
finding ruby employers. I suspect that the ruby employment situtation
still isn't quite there yet. I hope you'll go ahead anyway -- perhaps
there'll be a field of dreams effect.

 

[John Wilger]

I would very much like to have answers to these questions. I am willing
to deploy a job board, but only if I am not the only one advertising
and only if others in this community can see (and tell me) that there
is a market.

I'd vote for such a thing (and would be willing to help create it as well).

--=20
Regards,
John Wilger

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- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

 

[Rick Nooner]

Ruby is never a solitary skill, but when it is a primary skill it is
indicative of a world view. People that think of themselves as
primarily Ruby programmers really want to find work where Ruby is the
primary means of development. Throwing those jobs into the morass of
non-Ruby listings on general purpose job sites can only result in their
getting lost and, at minimum, losing the significance of being a Ruby
job.

Considering the size of the Ruby community, I think it would serve both
halves of the Ruby employment equation to have a job board that is Ruby
focused and to link to it from ruby-lang and a variety of other places.

Say what you will about other ways to increase Ruby's popularity, but
nothing has the effect like people being paid to use it. The only
downside I can think of is if there are no jobs to be found.

Are there other Ruby jobs out there? How are they advertised and
filled? Does anyone else think there would be a benefit in having a
Ruby-centric place for developers to post CVs and employers to post
jobs?

I would very much like to have answers to these questions. I am willing
to deploy a job board, but only if I am not the only one advertising
and only if others in this community can see (and tell me) that there
is a market.

I hope to hear from from you.

Dan

Recently I've been able to use Ruby in the core of one of our projects but
have had several people leave for various reasons, none to do with Ruby.
I may be able to hire one or two people in the next month or so as
replacements and would like to do so with people that have Ruby experience.

There isn't currently any good way that I know of to advertise jobs to the
Ruby community. I think it would help Ruby grow if there were.

Years ago, I brought Python into our company and hired people that already
knew the language using a job posting on the Python site. They had a spot
on their main web page www.python.org that linked to Python job listings as
far back as 1999, if not earlier.

BTW, if anyone is interested, we're north of Denver.

Rick

 

[Dibya Prakash]

Hi,
Great Dan.Plz go ahead with the plans.I took initiative in the company
where I m wroking rite now and they are looking for forward to
implement Ruby in some of their future projects.
Although i m still at the learning phase of Ruby,I hope this work of
urs wil definitely be highly beneficial.

Thanks
Dibya Prakash