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Michael, I hear you but haven't you noticed that most employers use third party agencies these days? Don't know about OR, but it's very true for NY and NJ (and probably CT). That's why there are threads about jobs being difficult to find. On one hand there are plenty of jobs, on the other hand there are none (or too few).

We're very sympathetic with all the job seekers but right now there are just too few jobs in our database. Eventually we may introduce a special keyword to omit staffing agencies from the search results or something like that.

And thank you for your input too! Good luck with your job search!

Here's what I find amazing. Nobody seems to like staffing agencies. Yet there are plenty of them, they have lots of jobs and employees. Mystery.

I wonder how fast it'll be when (hopefully) we have more jobs in the database. Just curious to know.

And a great catch! The search is not perfect yet. False hits are returned if a city name occurs within a job description itself. For example, you search for Java in San Francisco, other jobs will be returned too if they contain San Francisco.

We're aware of this issue and it's on our top to-do list. Plus we're analyzing searches to make them better but right now there are just to few jobs in our database.

And thank you for your input too, old man!

As well, you may get "false hits" (note the quotes) because recruiters stuff every keyword they're aware of into their job ads. Even if it has nothing to do with the job itself, :-(. We just don't highlight them (yet).

We heard you. We'll try to attract direct employers and come up with a feature to eliminate staffing agencies from the results while keeping the interface as simple as possible.

We're still an early stage start-up and there are just to few jobs in our database.

Not a huge deal but from a design perspective the Times New Roman really hurts my eyes. Just changing it to something smoother like Ubuntu or Arial would make it 10x better for me. The blue hyperlinks also look a little ugly to me on the plain white background, so I would either change their color to be a little lighter or add a slight grey background.

The site itself is great, though.

yup searched 'angular' and only recruiters showed up no _real_ companies. If I want to sift through a sea of recruiters, indeed does a great job of that.

Unfortunately I don't know how to help you. If you're in academia, maybe you should check various colleges and universities' websites?

err, 180K and 2+ years of professional programming experience with.. blah blah blah

2 years of experience and 180k?! What do I get for 10? Im in the wrong city I guess

What is it called? We chose to use full state names rather than the abbreviations, i.e. "New Jersey" rather than "NJ." That's why "District of Columbia" rather than "DC."

Right now at least one keyword such as Java needs to be specified in order for the search to return results (assuming there are jobs with those keywords). Adding a location (you can have multiple cities and/or states) narrows your search down to jobs in those cities or states.

We may change the logic to return all the jobs if only a location is specified. This seems to be the confusing part. (We're analyzing job searches to improve them.)

Thanks for your feedback!

Thank you for your feedback!

My partner has exactly the same thoughts. The market is indeed extremely saturated and there's huge money in it. However, I haven't seen good websites (in my opinion, that is) without all that clutter and visual noise.

Our focus is more on simplicity and we don't want you to spend hours on our site. Instead, we want you to quickly find a job, send your resume and move on. When you need a job, of course.

We too discussed the problem you suggested. That, however, imposes an additional burden on job seekers. Think about it. Interviews used to be 50 minutes long with one interviewer. Now we have phone screens in addition to face-to-face interviews, tests, job seekers have to fill out forms with hundreds of fields, meet with a bunch of interviewers, post JSON objects to URLs and other "clever" things.

This is not normal and we want to change that. I wonder if anyone else has given a thought to the whole situation.

Anyway, it's not our final decision and right now we just don't have the capacity for all extra stuff.

mrmondo, you've got a perfectly valid point! The website was developed by C++ developers. We can write CSS but modern web UI isn't our strength, :-(. And thank you for your input too!