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Niche Job Boards Galore: Here's One More

There have a been a flurry of niche job boards developed recently to help connect employers with the right niche employees. Paul Stamatiou has previously highlighted the job board boom and had this to say:

"In a nutshell, these small job boards are great places to start looking for your next career or find your next employee."

I couldn't agree with him more. Here a is a quick list of the various niche offerings and listing fees:

37 Signals Tech Jobs - $300 for a 30 day listing
Authentic Jobs - $250 for full-time (30 days)  $75 for freelance (15 days)
CrunchBoard - $200 for a 30 day listing
GigaOM Jobs - $200 for a month listing
Problogger Job Board - $50 for a 30 day listing
TECH cocktail Specials Job Board - $30 for a 30 day listing - FREE with code

With the design and development assistance of Phraction, Eric Olson and I launched a job board at our last event TECH cocktail 2. The goal is to help better connect our supporters with niche tech/biz  opportunities - or as we like to call them TECH cocktail Specials (techcocktail.com/jobs). Though the site says it is only $30 for a 30 day listing (about a dollar a day), I wanted to make it clear that we only are charging to help keep the riff raff (spam listings) off of the site and raise money to help support our TECH cocktail events. However, we have a promo code that we can give you and you can post as many job listings as you would like for FREE! Yes, you read that correctly, post your job listings for FREE!

If you have a job opening and would like to place it on the TECH cocktail Specials Job Board, please email us:

Frank [at] techcocktail dot com
Eric [at] techcocktail dot com

You are probably wondering why we would want to jump into such a competative, segmented market of niche job boards. Well, it is simple: after the first TECH cocktail event both Eric and I received a number emails asking us to help them connect with developers, designers and product gurus. So rather than play HR matchmaker, which could be a full-time job, we decided we would launch a job board. Eric and I really want to see this board grow to help better connect the tech/biz community. So please feel free to reach out to us for that promo code and post a TECH cocktail Specials job listing today!

Related Links:
CrunchBoard: Find A Job In The Valley
Blogger Job Board Launched

Second TECH cocktail Smoothly Downed

Last night (October 12, 2006), Eric Olson and I hosted our second TECH cocktail in Chicago at the Gramercy. As we first envisioned nearly 8 months ago, TECH cocktail 2 brought together the technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, bloggers, podcasters and corporate masterminds in the area. With the list of rsvp'ed guests at 400+ for the evening by the events start time, I was a little leary as to if we could keep every guest smiling. I feel like that if the 350+ guests that did attend even had a quarter the fun I had I would consider it a great success. Judging by the feedback I have gotten, I think we can rest assured we pulled it off smoothly.

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You...
I am extremely thankful to a number of people and companies that made TECH cocktail even happen. First of all, a quick thank you to Eric Olson for being great partner in TECH cocktail crime and more importantly a great friend. Secondly, thank to all of our sponsors which included  midPhase, mk Capital, Coastr, Liquid Talk, Chicago.com, Digital Bootcamp and Chicago Enterpreneurial Center.  Thanks to all the companies that were willing to go under the hood and showcase their products. This includes eSigma, GrubHub, Pawky.com, Planypus and Time59 - thank you. Thanks to our three film crews which include Liquid Talk, Stone Cliff Productions and TechnologyEvangelist.com. Thanks to Jonathan Wolter for working registration and spreading some TechSocial love. Thanks to guys from Freshwater Venture who brought some pretty sweet company baseball cards. Of course, thank you to my family and friends for coming out and supporting the movement. Don Loeb was even in from San Francisco to attend - thanks for coming Don! Finally, special thanks to Jeff Pulver for coming over from New York to attend and pick up a tab on several hundred rounds of drinks.

Event Photos & Reactions...
Here are the photos tagged techcocktail2. 
Here is some of the buzz from the blogosphere:

• TECH cocktail 2: Wrap & Thank you - TECH cocktail (Official Tc2 thank you)
• About Last Night… (David gives his perspective)
• TechCocktail - a great party - tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog (Glad Rick made it to this one!)
• I even wore a tie! (Dan from midPhase wore a tie)
• Tech Cocktail 2: What a Party: Technology Evangelist (Thanks for coming down!)
• About Last Night: TECH Cocktail 2 in Chicago - The Jeff Pulver Blog (Black AMEX, enough said - thank you!)
• TECH cocktail 2: Good Times, Lessons Learned - Chicagoist (Thanks for covering the limo situation so well)
• Chicago Beta (This is exactly what we wanted to see happen - more events!)
• TechCocktail tonight in Chicago « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger (Thanks for the plug Robert, wish you could have made it)

TECH cocktail Specials...

We also took the opportunity to introduce a new TECH cocktail product called TECH cocktail Specials (techcocktail.com/jobs) a job listing board that we hopes helps to connect employers with jobseekers surrounding TECH cocktail events. Not to mention, proceeds will help to support future TECH cocktail events. If you are interested in giving it a free trial please feel free to email and I will hook you up. The site was developed by Phraction.

With two TECH cocktails downed smoothly - we will see you at TECH cocktail 3!

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