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This site is intended to help people find jobs in the Ottawa area computer industry. In 1997, it was designed and built by David Caiger, who did all the 'real' work putting things together. Mr. Caiger maintained and enhanced the site until 2000 as an MS Access database that generated HTML files offline. Unfortunately, Mr. Caiger suffered a long period of illness, and turned the job links site over to ChelseaData.ca for continued development. Thanks, Dave!
This site is designed to be simple and load into your browser quickly. Currently, there is a mixture of database/scripting technologies making the site work. Originally, all link pages on this site are created/updated by an MS Access database, then it was converted to a dBASE application, doing the same thing - enabling quick and easy checking and updating of the job site links provided. Some pages are still generated offline this way, but slowly they are all being converted to php/mySQL pages that are queried live. An automated link checker (Xenu - google it for info) is used for basic functionality verification. Detailed site updating is done to attempt to ensure that the links are current and that the summaries / categorizations are accurate. "Regular" is a nice, vague term - I used to have time to update monthly, but lately it's been every 6 months. Job site links are added as they are discovered or submitted.
The summaries provide basic information about each organization. In some cases, it is just some text borrowed from the organization's site.
Summaries and Link Status can be hidden by choosing "Hide Summaries" at the top (or bottom) of each category page. This provides a compact list of just the job site links and avoids the sometimes nauseating drivel put out by the corporate marketing departments.
The links can take the user to the homepage of the organization, or a career/employment page if available/appropriate. Some sites without career page links do have career pages, but their sites use frames and it would make it difficult for the user to navigate the rest of the site to open their career page without frames.
With/without job opportunities - "Companies with specific job opportunities" does NOT mean the company currently has jobs available - it means that their website has the ability to display them IF they do have specific opportunities (usually this means a Careers page). The idea is to make it easier for you to find specific opportunities where they are most likely to be. Remember though, some companies that do not display specific opportunities may still be looking - they just don't go to the trouble of displaying their needs on the web.
Currently, this service is done on a voluntary basis (no banner ads, no charge for employer listings), so our biggest pay-back is to hear from individuals that have found a job with the help of this site. And feel free to suggest changes or enhancements that you think might improve the site.
Category Definitions
- Internet Job Listing Services
- Self-explanatory - Job listing services solely based on the internet. These services are free for job searchers (with the exception of one or two that will charge if you want "extra" services).
- Consulting Firms/Placement Agencies
- Firms that usually hire on a contract basis on behalf of others (as opposed to companies seeking permanent employees for themselves).
- Companies
- Firms that usually hire permanent employees.
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