[freehunter]

This could be really helpful (I'm sitting at work right now as an information security employee, so I don't want to browse the site too much). I was recently looking for a new job in information security as an experienced candidate and many of the existing job search sites really let me down. I know this is one of the fastest growing segments of the industry, there's next to no unemployment, and salaries have potential to be incredible. But when I was looking, there was nothing. Nothing on Monster, nothing on CareerBuilder, and hardly even anything on Dice. I found more positions by going to a company's website and looking through their individual openings.

I don't know if it's that companies don't want to post their security positions or if the existing sites are poorly equipped to meet that specific need, but it was just terrible. Did I end up at the place I wanted for the salary I wanted? Sure. Did I end up at the best place I was capable of working at the highest salary I am capable of earning? I doubt it, because, according to Monster, CareerBuilder, and Dice.com, there are no information security positions within 50 miles of Pittsburgh and there haven't been for at least the past six months.

[icanhasfay]

Thanks for checking out the site. I can definitely attest to the difficulty in finding InfoSec positions on generic job boards as I was in the same position around a year and a half ago. As you mentioned, most of the positions on those job boards were either old postings, not actually relevant to InfoSec or posted through a recruitment agencies. This led me to practically writing regex's through the sites' filtering systems just to get back relevant postings. Having run through the problems firsthand, I wanted to try and solve these pain points by creating a community-driven job board for InfoSec positions, aka SecurityOverboard.