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WebWord Comment -- I'm not looking for a job right now. However, just for giggles, I did a quick search on "usability" at Monster.com. There are currently 195 jobs listed using that search term. I did the same search on "usability" at Dice.com and there were 128 jobs listed. Interesting, if you ask me.

Replies: 4 comments

Interesting considering that job sites produce few actual hires. [msnbc]

Posted by JS @ 01/03/2002 12:45 AM EST

If you look at the results of this search, you'll notice how few listings are really jobs to do with usability. They just have a keyword of usability in there. You really have to wade through.

Incidentally, my current position (in the usability field) was first found using Monster.

Posted by J K @ 01/03/2002 01:23 PM EST

I agree with JK - people like to put the word 'Usability' in job descriptions, but the job itself will most of the time have nothing to do with Usability.

It's a tuff market right now.

Posted by JK ROWLING @ 01/03/2002 05:59 PM EST

Job sites suck. They really do. According to a Forrester report (not that I put much stock in [BigResearchCo] reports), only 4% of people find jobs online.

I could write a long explanation of why job sites don't work, but that would become an article by itself, and this place is just for posting comments. ;)

M
PS: Googling gave me this:
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/professional/article/0,1323,5971_306361,00.html

PPS: I'd like to coin "Googling" as an official term for searching on Google :P

PPPS: John, Greymatter chokes on autoconverting URLs with commas in them. (Not that you can do much about it, but just FYI.)

Posted by MadMan @ 01/04/2002 06:32 AM EST

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