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MinistryCamp Job Board
1 January 2007 › 8 comments
Man, everywhere you look nowadays there is a job board springing up. There are new jobs posted daily at 37signals, Authentic Jobs, CSS Beauty, and Joel on Software – not to mention the more traditional sites like Dice and Monster. Ever since starting Godbit, we have had a part of the forum dedicated to Work Opportunities, but I never really felt that was good enough.
Quite a few people have half-jokingly asked me “When is Godbit going to get a job board?” While I have always acknowledged it was a good idea, I did not have the time to invest the effort to create a new ministry-related job board from scratch. I am pleased to say that I am now off the hook, because Christian blogger Dan Lee has taken the initiative and done just that.
It’s called MinistryCamp Job Board and it caters specifically to connecting ministries with web professionals who have a passion for both Christianity and technology. You may be wondering: “Why should I post a job opening to this board when there are so many others to choose from?” The answer of course is that each of the aforementioned boards are focused on a particular audience. Likewise, MinistryCamp is geared towards Christian geeks.
You might be thinking: “Why is Nathan pushing this particular job board, is it for a kick-back?” – Nope. I just think this is a worthy cause, and helps to raise the bar a bit as far as finding good job candidates. I also appreciate that 25% goes towards a charity. This month, it’s Campus Crusade in Louisiana.
To that end, I intend to throw the weight of Godbit behind it once there’s a steady flow of job openings. I plan to incorporate it on the sidebar of the site, much like Greg and Cameron have done for Authentic Jobs. If your ministry is seeking a freelance or full-time web designer / developer, check it out.
Discussion + Dissension
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#1 Yannick
Dan did a pretty good job getting it up and running. It’s also good to see another application/site done with Code Igniter and good idea for the job listing to appear on Godbit too. :)
#2 Nathan Smith
That’s cool it was done with C.I. I had just assumed because of the style that it was done in Rails, since that seems to be all the rage for web applications nowadays. It’s good to see PHP still getting some Web 2.0 lovin’.
#3 Josh
Nathan….Nate-Dog.
Thanks for supporting Dan, he’s a great man and doing this thing is great for all of us Jesus lovin, standards cravin, “ajaz” using peeps.
Cheers
Josh
#4 Nathan Logan
Awesome. I can’t wait for some jobs to start filtering in!
#5 David Sutoyo
Clean design, Godbit backing…it’s sure to be a hit.
Not to be spelling-Nazi or anything, but I think you meant “incorporate” :)
#6 Nathan Smith
David: Thanks. Even with Firefox’s spell-check, I still manage to foul up.
#7 Andy
I work for a Christian University in Toronto Canada (Tyndale) We have been running a faith based careers site for a number of years now (www.christiancareerscanada.com) – I get a lot of comments from people about how they like that the site is so focused – generally Christian employers from not-for-profit ministries. We run the postings for free as it is sponsored by the University.
MinistryCamp looks really good and seems to be organized well – I hope it makes a great run…
Ok I have to go subscribe to the RSS feed now :)
#8 Brent O'Connor
Awesome! I added it to my feeds since I would love to work for a Christian organization as a web developer / designer.