After more than 6 months of availability in the United States, Stack Overflow Jobs, powered by Indeed, is expanding to several new geographic regions in Europe. As part of the next iteration of this experiment, the job site will be available in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands sometime in January (we will update this post once those launch, so stay tuned).
As we said in an earlier post about Stack Overflow Jobs, “our goal is to create a job site experience that developers and other technical job seekers love.” We are still in the early stages of proving the effectiveness and sustainability of the model we used to launch this job site, but we feel confident that we are moving in the right direction to help more technical job seekers, in more places.
In the US alone, there is an average of 15,000 - 25,000 total tech jobs for developers to explore on the job site on any given day. Since the launch on May 8, 2024, over 6,500 job applications have been started from Stack Overflow Jobs.
Over the last seven months since the launch, we’ve also worked together with Indeed to make several updates to improve the quality and relevance of jobs listed, as well as the site design and functionality. You can read more about those updates in this post.
Now that we have begun to expand beyond our initial test, in January we will be removing the Jobs link from appearing under the “Labs” section in the left navigation for users in countries where the job site is not yet available. We want to prevent users from having the frustrating experience of clicking the link and finding the job site is not accessible to them. However, we do still hope to continue expanding to more countries across the globe in the future, and will update the community when more information becomes available.
How it works
The experience in the new geographic regions will be the same as it is today for users in the US. It will still be hosted on its own domain (stackoverflowjobs.com), linked from the left navigation on Stack Overflow and technical Stack Exchange sites (the same group of sites where you see ‘Companies’ in the left navigation, though to be clear ‘Companies’ and ‘Jobs’ remain separate features). The only difference in the experience is that if you are located in Germany, France, or the Netherlands, some job listings will be posted in that country’s primary language, depending on what language the employer chose to use when writing the posting.
Use keyword searches to find technical jobs that are a great fit for your interests and experience. In order to apply for a job, hit the “apply” button and you will be redirected to the posting on Indeed, where you can submit your application. No personal data about users is shared between Stack Overflow and Indeed.
As always, we routinely take measures to ensure that the listings that populate Stack Overflow Jobs are high quality and highly relevant to the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange technical community. In the event that something off-topic slips through the cracks, we want to get it corrected as soon as possible. See the help center article here with more information.
We appreciate the feedback and feature requests we have received from community members regarding how we can improve the search experience on Stack Overflow Jobs. We will continue to consider these, as well as any new ones we receive, as we monitor the success of the expansion and consider the next phases of this experiment. We believe that by combining the unique strengths of Stack Overflow, including our dedication to the developer community, and Indeed’s volume of quality tech jobs, we can help more developers and other technical job seekers find their next great opportunity, now in a few more corners of the globe.
Feedback
Do you have any feedback about your experience on Stack Overflow Jobs (in the United States) that isn’t captured in the original post?
Where else in the world would you like to see Stack Overflow Jobs expand? We can’t make any guarantees, but we would love to serve technical job seekers in more regions in the future.
What features would make you most excited to use Stack Overflow Jobs to search for a new opportunity (if it became available in your region)?
