Comments on: A Job Board Aimed at African Devs and Designers

By: techmasai

techmasai — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:19:05 +0000

sounds like a great idea will have to take a look at this.

By: Mbugua Njihia

Mbugua Njihia — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:52:07 +0000

ala CrunchJobs…i like it!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:47:36 +0000

Great idea here! With the spread of internet all over Africa one would not expect job seeking to be as difficult as it is. Having your resume/profile online I think is also important. It’s easier to get all your info out there. I found some people who do a good job at http://www.nickelpro.com

By: alex weir

alex weir — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:54:07 +0000

ec3wd.com is a new and as-yet pretty much unused site which can be used by everyone for everything – i.e. software programmers in africa can post resume/profiles…. welcome

By: Sean Blaschke

Sean Blaschke — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:59:44 +0000

Great initiative! Is there anyway that software programmers in Africa can post resume/profiles? It would be very useful to have a searchable pool of interested programmers with skills sets and past projects listed. And to jump off of Minna’s comment, particularly if reputations could be built based on trusted community recommendations!

By: Minna

Minna — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:36:56 +0000

Hi – have you checked out Japanese Otetsunai – networks – rather interesting mobile service, wher both employees & employers are rated & build reputations … creates trust into short term relationships, see e.g. http://www.psfk.com/2007/10/otetsudai-networks-mobile-jobs-by-gps.html …

By: HASH

HASH — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:41 +0000

Good idea Taylor, I’ll see what I can do for that. My main goal is to just create that digital meeting place for these two groups to get started together, so it makes sense to offer something for devs and designers as well.

By: zulusafari

zulusafari — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:52:41 +0000

Any chance this ‘board’ could take on another component? To include an ‘available for hire’ section where Dev & designers can post their work and/or links to their work and advertise themselves?

By: Wayan @ Inveneo

Wayan @ Inveneo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:15:48 +0000

Oh and while not a job board in itself, there is the Coded in Country movement, which this ties in with nicely: http://groups.google.com/group/coded-in-country-launch

By: Wayan @ Inveneo

Wayan @ Inveneo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:01:37 +0000

Erik,

I really love this concept you’ve made reality. We often get inquiries about employment or those employable and its well beyond our capacity to track either. Yet we’re big believers in driving business to Africa.

On that note, one suggestion: can you have a jobseeker profile section? A place where those seeking employment can give a thumbnail sketch about themselves, with links to resumes, completed jobs, and profiles on LinkedIn and the like? I’d love to be able to scan for up-and-coming technologists for our different projects.