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Post by sideshowb »

jamisonbryant wrote: post #65

I've thought about tapping into the HN BigQuery dataset (or perhaps the HN API, whichever is more appropriate) to analyze the results of the Who's Hiring posts and their companion Who Wants to be Hired posts. I think aggregation of this data will paint an interesting picture for job-seekers and other technology professionals as to what's hot, what's not, what employers are looking for (and not), as well as other tren…

I think this used to exist for stack overflow jobs, probably not up to date though

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Post by pb7 »

brookside wrote: post #174
robertk wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.financialsamurai.com/best-time-to-start-a-busine... “ The Best Time To Start A Business Is During A Downturn”

Financial Samurai strikes me as sadistic. His post about Mr. Money Mustache's divorce is pretty horrible example of soulless SEO headings kicking a rival blogger when down https://www.financialsamurai.com/mmm-divorce/

One of the most common reasons for divorce is finances so it seems relevant to draw attention to someone promoting a certain financial lifestyle.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by KAMSPioneer »

killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

Just passed two years into a job I got from a Who's Hiring thread. Emailed the given address and ended up in interviews a week or two later. It's worked out well so far.

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by JacobThreeThree »

robertk wrote: post #79
harryvederci wrote: post #23

I don't know the intention of the author, but I see like a lot of "Look, it's happening! The economy is going down!" posts pop up these days. Which may be true, but it can also be a self-fulfilling profecy if everyone is doing that on all platforms. Which would be a shame. I'm not saying HN and other platforms should censor (/ take action) either. It's just a thought I have on this subject, and I don't know if there…

https://www.financialsamurai.com/best-time-to-start-a-busine... “ The Best Time To Start A Business Is During A Downturn”

As others like Jason Calicanis have pointed out, it will hopefully be easier for the resilient startups to hire and retain talent.

https://youtu.be/fU6QlvruLTw?t=607

Re: Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months

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Post by lkrubner »

baremetal wrote: post #180
tengbretson wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite two quarters of negative GDP growth, the current justification for saying we are not currently in a recession is that the unemployment rate is so low. The current stated goal of the Federal Reserve is to raise the unemployment rate from 3.7% to a target of 4.4%. What you are remarking on as possibly a self-fulfilling prophecy is instead the result of official policy achieving its goal.

>Despite falling GDP, the current justification for saying we are not currently in a recession is that jobs and employment numbers are high. Pretty sure a recession is two quarters of negative growth. Rationalization hamster wheels notwithstanding.

That has never been the definition of a recession. All recessions are declared by NBER and NBER has always used a large number of metrics in their calculations. You can see the official list of "peak months" and "trough months" here, and you'll note they don't line up cleanly with 2 quarters of negative growth:

https://www.nber.org/research/data/us-business-cycle-expansi...

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Post by lurquer »

zeroonetwothree wrote: post #194
baremetal wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Despite falling GDP, the current justification for saying we are not currently in a recession is that jobs and employment numbers are high. Pretty sure a recession is two quarters of negative growth. Rationalization hamster wheels notwithstanding.

We have had 2 quarters of negative growth before without an official NBER recession (though not since the 50s).

Until recently, a recession has meant two quarters of negative growth.

The term is used to describe economic conditions in various countries.

The NBER is not part of the designation.

Indeed, it would be impossible for an economist to observe that Egypt, for instance, was in a recession as the NBER issues no opinions on the Egyptian economy.

No, conditioning the definition of a recession on the NBER was a silly political stunt by the current admin. Don’t go along with these redefinitions… it’s silly and illogical.

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Post by Redoubts »

msluyter wrote: post #160
maerF0x0 wrote: post #30

also consider the whole chain -- From the layoffs I've observed Recruiters were some of the top laid off roles. Less recruiters means prioritization of efforts. HN Who's hiring is probably a low priority platform. (Recruiter's boss doesn't know what it is, hard to instrument for tracking metrics) If you really want to know how many jobs are out there it's better to index and crawl all the companies jobs page directly…

"HN Who's hiring is probably a low priority platform." This has always surprised me. At several companies I've suggested to the hiring folks that they post on HN and I've rarely seen it happen. But IMHO, although you may not get a lot of candidates that way, I would imagine the signal/noise ratio is high, relative to the average recruiting channel. (Would be curious to see that (dis)confirmed.)

As someone on the other side, HN as a funnel isn't much better than a linked in job ad. Scanning through The Who Wants to be Hired thread might be better, but that's obviously more work.

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

zdragnar wrote: post #118
whatshisface wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you call it a leading indicator of the tech job market when it is a tech job market?

It is a pretty narrow segment of a much larger market, presumably.

Yeah, there are literally thousands of tech companies that don’t use HN.

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Post by noodle »

killingtime74 wrote: post #25

Has anyone actually gotten much success in either direction (hirer/candidate) from these posts?

I've been hired to more than one job through these posts over the past ~15 years; and I've also done hiring for my teams successfully through these threads.

Having said that, in the last ~2 years, we've had FAR less success with these threads. Didn't post in the last one cuz it just didn't feel worth it.

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Post by fernandotakai »

throwaway292939 wrote: post #187
mountaineer wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the intent is to share as a possible leading indicator. I don't know the OP's exact reasoning, but I have tracked this data for years at hntrends.com and it was my original thesis that this thread is a leading indicator of the tech job market at a minimum.

I would think the leading indicator would be Big Tech layoffs and hiring freezes that started months ago. If I were to change my course of action, I'd use that since it happened way earlier.

i mean, even with hiring freezes and layoffs i'm still getting emails from recruiters (this month i got one from google amongst other companies).
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