February 2012
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Please say ‘Hi’ to Adam.
Adam Spooner is a rare find. He’s a master of front-end development with a strong understanding of both UI design and back-end development. His soft skills are terrific. And he’s an auto restoration geek in training.
Adam joins the company today as our first full-time hire. Among the many applicants that responded to our listing, his passion and experience led the pack. Folks like...
January 2012
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Ate my own dog food, and it wasn't half bad.
I started Authentic Jobs six years ago with the intent of connecting companies and creative professionals to make a better web. Little did I realize the company proper, Authentic Jobs Inc., would be one of those who — not once but several times over — made the connection with creative professionals.
Myles, easily the most pleasant and skilled engineer I’ve ever worked with,...
New Year, New Promotion: 50% off any listing
tl;dr – It’s that time again for our annual New Year’s promotion. Visit one of our listing partners for a discount code.
Long version – Get a jump start on hiring new employees and finding freelance contractors with our annual New Year’s promotion: 50% off any listing. But there’s a catch. You’ll need to visit the tweet streams or websites of our listing partners...
Crewing in the New Year
One of the reasons we’re hiring a front-end developer (position is now closed) is the need to finally wrap up Authentic Crew, a project that’s been in development for quite some time but has been second in priority to operating and maintaining our flagship site, Authentic Jobs.
In 2012, we’re resolving to launch version one of Authentic Crew early in the year. We’ve spent...
December 2011
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Featured in the App Store
An early Christmas present for us, and a surprise to boot: The Authentic Jobs iPhone app has been featured in the iTunes App Store, in the section titled “Great Free Apps” (iTunes link).
We’re thrilled to be featured alongside Nike, Etsy, TED, and Stamped, and we’re encouraged by the positive reviews that have been coming in.
Update: The app has now passed 15,000...
November 2011
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The Authentic Jobs iPhone App
A mere four years after the first iPhone went on sale, we’ve got our first app. We think it might have been worth the wait. (We’re super pleased with how it turned out.)
Head over to the teaser page or download the app in iTunes.
The app contains a few unique features we haven’t yet implemented on the site, such as favorites, listings by location, and a company directory...
October 2011
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$23,004 for charity: water
That’s the amount you helped us raise for charity: water. Those are real dollars meant to help real people lacking clean drinking water. Absolutely amazing.
True, we didn’t reach our goal of $35,000. But you generously contributed a very substantial amount of money nonetheless, and it’s $1,618 more than last year. All who contributed deserve recognition, and they can be...
September 2011
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Birthday wishes for us. Big savings for you.
We’re officially 6 years old this week (September 25 if you’re curious), so we’re celebrating with a week full of savings:
Post a job to our flagship site, authenticjobs.com, and you’ll enjoy 50% off any listing
Post a job to our UK site, uk.authenticjobs.com, and pay just £1.00 as we continue to cultivate and grow our UK audience
On top of that, post multiple jobs...
Donate $20 for a chance to receive a poster signed...
If you haven’t made time yet to help fund the development of freshwater wells in developing countries that so desperately need them, now is the time to do it.
Contributions have slowed to our charity: water campaign, as expected after the initial rush to contribute. So to help put a little renewed fire under us all, we’ll randomly select one individual who donates $20 or more to...
Let’s raise 600,000 Ethiopian birr for charity:...
Last year you helped us raise $21,386 for charity: water to celebrate our 5th birthday. This year we hope you’ll help us raise even more.
Help us celebrate our 6th birthday by raising ብር600,000 Ethiopian birr, roughly $35,000 USD, for charity: water. The birr (ብር) is the unit of currency in Ethiopia. With a local partner, charity: water plans to serve 100% of Northern Ethiopia with access...
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Time for cake. Better yet, water.
High six! We’re turning six this month. Once again, we’re passing on the cake and presents to team up with charity: water as we kick off our month-long birthday celebration.
Authentic Jobs’ founder, Cameron Moll, will be at charity: water’s headquarters this Wednesday, September 7. He’ll be live-blogging/tweeting/etc-ing to say thank you to all of the incredible...
August 2011
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dConstruct 2011 Ticket Tombola
Authentic Jobs UK is a sponsoring dConstruct 2011, which has an outstanding lineup of speakers — Don Norman, Kelly Goto, Frank Chimero, Craig Mod, and others.
We’re giving away three free tickets to freelancers who wouldn’t otherwise be able to make it. Here’s how you can qualify for a ticket:
You’re in the UK.
You’re a self-employed freelancer who...
July 2011
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Interestingness from our Listing Partners
Our listing partners (UK partners, World partners) are a critical part of our success. Through posts and tweets, they share shrewd opinion and seasoned knowledge about design, development, freelancing, and much more. Coupled with listings in their sidebars and occasional tweets about featured jobs, we’re fortunate to be a part of their creative circles.
Below is a round-up of some recent...
£1 Pricing Ends 8 July
Discounted pricing for our UK launch special ends Friday, 8 July. All listings are just £1 and remain active for 60 days. Post your UK job and it’ll be shared across our network of partner websites and Twitter accounts, such as Jon Hicks and Little Big Details.
Of course, our satisfaction guarantee is applicable and, yes, we’ll honour it even for £1.
June 2011
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Touchscreen Tussle Winners
Congratulations to our three Touchscreen Tussle winners:
5ifty & 5ifty, whose listing for Front End/WordPress/Ruby Developer was randomly chosen for the first iPad
Wendy Williard, a self-proclaimed “minivan-driving soccer mom”, who posted this winning tweet for the second iPad
Andy Pimlett, founder of evodesign, whose Authentic Jobs UK blog post was easy to find, as was his...
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Details, Details, Details
If the mantra of real estate is location, the equivalent of design is arguably details.
Charles Eames said it best:
The details are not details, they make the product.
We fully agree. And so we spent a significant amount of time trying to get all the details just right with our latest design. There are still some particulars we’re not 100% pleased with, so we’ll probably be...
May 2011
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This is a big day for us.
Today we’re announcing a few things we’ve been assiduously crafting behind the scenes:
A realigned, adaptive layout that renders well on most web-enabled devices
Authentic Jobs UK and new listing partners
Touchscreen Tussle iPad contest
The deets follow, in that order.
Realigned, Adaptive Layout
We can’t call it a truly responsive design, as we’re using media...
On Creative Recruiting (or Recruiting Creatives)
Campaign Monitor, whose services we use for sending email blasts, recently published the results from their wildly successful recruiting blitz. In “The importance of standing out in the job market”, co-founder Dave Greiner shares the results and describes why the traditional “post & pray” approach doesn’t always work for finding job applicants:
We’re...
February 2011
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Authentic Crew: Coming Along Swimmingly
It was Christmas break, December 2008. I was probably listening to more than enough Johnny Mathis for one sitting. Mom ingrained his voice into my brain as one synonymous with presents and jingle bells, and despite how wonky the guy can be, I still kinda enjoy hearing his voice at Christmastime.
Anyhow, I was also exploring a concept over the break, one I believed would play well with Authentic...