We’re looking for Rails devs and a web admin or two for full time and/or contracting You have: – Experience with Ruby on Rails – 3-5 yrs Web dev experience – Linux/UNIX skills – A love of tested, elegant code – Desire to change how the music industry works. – OS X enthusiasm a plus – Bulletproof, CSS/standards-based XHTML Remote is OK, but we’re looking for development leads on site and ability to relocate if needed is a big big plus.

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There have a been a flurry of niche job boards developed recently to help connect employers with the right niche employees. Paul Stamatiou has previously highlighted job board boom and had this to say:In a nutshell, these small job boards…

Great post, Paul. I’ll share with you what we are finding from a job boards perspective. The biggest recruitment issue that companies, large & small, are facing is that, in an environment with 4% unemployment, quality people aren’t going to job boards. If you are truly a ‘Ninja C++ Programmer’ your skills are in such demand that you don’t need to go to job boards. In this environment, if you are a halfway decent sales person, marketer, programmer, recruiter, butcher, baker or candlestick maker, you already have a job and don’t need to go to job boards. Furthermore, if you are good at what you do, as you know, your phone rings regularly with opportunities.

Like many advertisers, the challenge that the corporate recruitment community is facing is that the traditional way of doing things has suddenly come to an end. Not only are potential candidates not going to job boards, they also are not reading the paper, they are on the phone in their cars so billboards are not effective, they have home theaters so cinema slides aren’t working. A traditionally slow part of the organization is now scurrying to figure out how to find the best people that they can when the old way of doing things is no longer effective.

Some of the more sophisticated recruiters have seen this coming for sometime and have been able to stay ahead of the curve. The Marines having a MySpace page for example, the famous Google billboard or buying highly targeted ads across the entire Yahoo! Network (blatant plug). Others are going to continue to buy job postings on the big boards because that is the way it has always been. These companies will find themselves at the short end of a competitive disadvantage.

As I blogged about a couple of weeks ago, the recent upsurge in job boards is a result in companies like JobThread making it very easy to build and integrate a job board on your site. It doesn’t make them more valuable, though. Is the audience on TechCrunch more sophisticated than the typical Monster.com from a technology standpoint, arguably, yes. However, if you’re a “PHP / CSS guru” that hits TechCrunch on a regular basis, you know how valuable you are and are probably already aware of any open positions due to your network, which will always drive more job opportunities for you than a job board.

Hope that this wasn’t too pluggy.

Good for us ;)