Looks like there have been quite a few comments on this since I left work yesterday. I applaud everyone's efforts with their job sites. However, that is part of the problem. Right now there about probably 10 or 15 job posting sites that people have put up just for PHP. They all have a few listings most of which are out of date and most of which don't overlap. This fragmentation doesn't do anyone any good. The clients I have gotten over the net all mention that they don't like having to go a hundred different places and browsing through hundreds of php programmers that most can't tell apart. They all say the like to be able to post a job and let interested parties come to them. That is why I haven't already put up a jobs site. Just adding another one to the list won't help. The PHP community pulls together to help people with coding problems, and the develop the actual php source. They need to do the same for a jobs site and then just have various sites link to it. I agree that maybe jobs.php.net would be the best bet. I don't think any of the current jobs sites on other peoples sites are there because they want to make $$ off of them directly. Everyone seems to have the same good intentions of helping the community overall. I'm the same way. I'll be honest that I'm hoping to get some extra business of such a venture comes to pass but I'm also far sighted enough to realize that I'll benefit more from a community effort that helps everyone than just another personal job site. With my rant being said, would anyone be interesting in putting together a panel or committee to research putting together such an effort? Things I'm thinking right now that would be interesting to know would be exact metrics about: *how many different jobs sites are out there directed to php jobs (eliminating portals like monster) *the total number of jobs spread out between them It would also be interesting to know about what features everyone would like in a new php jobs site: *resumes *places to post job listings *email notification of new posts *etc Scott Delap SBC Services, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 314-235-6216 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
