The SharePoint Developer Network(SPDEVNET) jobs board is now available online at http://jobs.sharepointdeveloper.org, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed directly from the site.  The goal of this exercise is to make it easier for SharePoint professionals to find work, and also to provide a community resource for SharePoint developers to share business opportunities, get training, and basically connect with each other.

You will notice that there are two job listing areas - jobs that are posted directly to the SPDEVNET site, and jobs that are posted elsewhere on the Internet.   The Internet listings are fairly extensive.  Like other job boards, you can filter by category or job type.  I’m using a third-party service to aggregate the jobs, so I have to work with the API they have provided.  I’m working on a way to enable filtering by geographic region, but it’s not there quite yet.

The Internet listings are obviously free.  Premium listings can be posted for $1 per day.  I don’t expect this to be a big money maker, but I needed a way to distinguish the premium listings from other listings, and to encourage recruiting professionals and human resources folks to participate.  If we don’t get a lot of premium listings, then I’ll try to talk the vendor into removing it.

Look for steady evolution of the SPDEVNET site over the coming weeks.  It is currently hosted on Community Server, and there have been a few challenges in getting everything configured properly.  The biggest problem has been membership spamming and interfacing with the social networking sites.  My original intent was to provide full integration with all of the popular social networking sites like Facebook and Linked-In, but the FB platform APIs keep changing, and Linked-In is currently a closed system.  There is, however, a companion Linked-In group which you can join at SharePoint Developer Network on Linked-In.

Anyway, check it out and I look forward to your feedback.