These people gave us two thumbs up.
...we've since returned the thumbs in exchange for the following comments.
Dave Greiner, Co-founder, Sydney-based Freshview:
After 6 months and finally accepting that we'd probably never fill the position, we decided to give Authentic Jobs a go. Within 2 short days we found the amazing interface designer we'd been searching for. We just relocated him to Sydney and couldn't be happier.
Mike Faulhaber, motorfocus:
Without a doubt we received the best quality responses from Authentic Jobs. It's a no-brainer for reaching the brainy — and a bargain, to boot.
Tom Carmony, Principal, Bainbridge Studios LLC:
Your site has been a fantastic resource for helping us find high quality freelance designers and developers. It's really been a blessing.
Alec Rosen, Option4 Interactive Solutions:
We got excellent results and I do have enough contacts to build the entire web 3.0.
Sam Rosen, ThoughtLead:
I found a great front-developer/designer through Authentic Jobs. Well done!
Jon Millikin, Director of Operations, SMARTrealestate.com:
I posted a job ad yesterday for a PHP Programmer and have gotten an overwhelming reply. Thanks to your website we found someone for the position.
Maurice Calhoun, Web Developer, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia:
I was out of work for about 2 months. I had went to cameronmoll.com as I normal do to see if there was anything new happening on the web. Oddly enough I have been to your site many times, but never notice the "Authentic Jobs" link in the sidebar. So I click on it and saw a really cool posting for a job that was based in Atlanta Georgia. The first thing I did was, I ask my wife, How far is Atlanta from Tuscaloosa?" We prayed, and then I applied for that job. That was almost a year ago and I love it here.
Tina Shah, Designer/Developer, Tina Shah:
This is a great website! I've been looking for a website where I can go to get good freelance design jobs. Most of the jobs on craigslist.org and dice.com are labeled wrong and not geared toward design. The postings that you have on here are great! I immediately added the RSS feed and check it everyday to see the new postings. Thanks!
Katrina McKinnon (Australia), Motive:
I posted a freelance position on your site yesterday for 75 bucks. Within these few hours I have received a hundred or so responses — a few of them exceptional, most of them good and only a few absolute duds. That's quite possibly the best 75 I've spent for a while. Thanks for making the service you made. I appreciate it.
Graham King, Pacifica Group:
We got about 70 applications, from six countries, many on the same day the ad was posted, and not a single time-waster. The person we hired has done a fantastic job, and we will be asking them to collaborate on future projects. Thanks.
Rudy Rouhana, Rights Agent:
I think your site is fantastic, and have been amazed at the responses I've received. I really couldn't possibly be happier with the results.
Shane Lennon, SVP Strategy & Marketing, GyPSii:
We have gotten over 20+ responses and more that enough capable candidates. Great site and very impressed with the broad range of skills and expertise from people who applied.
Jim Ballard, Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals:
Your site did the job for us. We had some great candidates to choose from. We have hired one of them. It brought in some very highly qualified people.
Michelle Robbins, Third Door Media:
I have to tell you how pleasantly surprised I am at the sheer volume of extremely qualified candidates that have responded to the listing. However, I'm getting buried :-) I've already sorted through and have a list of more than 10 candidates I want to follow up with - as it is a freelance position, I'm confident I'll be able to find one or two that will fit the bill.
Shannon Peterson, Shelf Reliance:
We got some very viable candidates! We didn't end up hiring from the replies from Authentic Jobs, but we were impressed with the resumes we got. In the end, we are glad we used your service.
Rob Baker, Development Analyst, Oxfam America:
After one week up on the site the response was overwhelmingly good with more than enough qualified candidates submitting applications. This is a great service and we'll certainly be using it in the future.
Andrew McClain, Fluther.com:
Just wanted to let you know how pleased we were with the Authentic Jobs listing. The biggest problem we had was choosing which talented designer to hire!
Eric Eldredge, Designer, Hirshorn Zuckerman Design Group:
I recently landed a great full time position through your site — the kind of job I've been casually searching for well over a year. When AJ launched, I had a feeling it would prove an invaluable resource, and in my case, it surely has. Quality over quantity indeed!
Peter Flaschner, Creative Director, The Blog Studio:
Cameron, the response has been fantastic. Best $75 I've spent in a long time.
Matthew Schwartz, President, Matthew Schwartz Design Studio:
I got one response from my listing, and he was our final hire. He's been here several months now; he's a great asset.
FJ de Kermadec, Founder, Webstellung:
This little note is to thank you for your outstanding help through your Authentic Jobs venture. Thanks to your site, we were able to not only hire one freelancer but two and mark four down for potential work down the line, all in a single week.
Andy Beeching, Web Developer, Double Eye:
Out of over a hundred applicants to the role, I was the only one to apply through your site, and one of only three to gain an interview. I believe my application was immediately given more weight due to the fact it came via your job board, and I got the position! It's well known that your blog is very popular amongst 'standardistas'... hence I had already gone a long way to fulfilling the 'standards aware' requirement for the position.
Andrew Shearer, Online Communications Manager, (company withheld):
You might be interested to know that the reason I need to post this job opening is because another company hired away my Interface Developer through their listing on your site! You might also like to know that the way I found (and hired) him in the first place was through a link you published to an article on his site about wicked worn Fireworks techniques. In short, your site has become some kind of hub through which my staff is added and removed. ;)
Brad Bonham, Interaction Designer, Benefitfocus:
Yours is a popular blog among design professionals and the job listings get great real estate. Plus, it's nice to know there's an honest-to-gosh design professional with international clout screening these jobs, because if I'm lucky he or one of his 5,000 designer friends will push forth a resume. It's certainly good to have traffic coming from sources other than the big job listing sites such as Monster and Career Builder, where the applications tend to be more general and generic and often harder to screen.
Tim McElwee, Designer, Wunderman NYC:
I just wanted to write a short note thanking you for creating authenticjobs.com. Tomorrow I start a new position that I found on your site. ItŐs very nice to have a resource for jobs where standards fluent designers and developers know that employers are thinking ahead.
Stuart Butler, Project Manager, Intellistrand:
The quality of the applicants far surpassed any other site we had used in the past, including careerbuilder.com and monster.com. If you are looking to fill a very specific position that requires a qualified candidate, there aren't any better options out there than Cameron's website.
Jody Ferry, Design Director, WebLinc:
Cameron's listings have offered us an efficient and targeted means of finding high quality applicants for all our creative and marketing HR needs. Simply outstanding.
Chip Diffendaffer, Web & Digital Media Manager, University of Denver:
The people I am looking for now and in the future would hopefully know Authentic Boredom and the rest of the standards circle.
Virgil Wong, Head of Web Services, New York-Presbyterian Hospital:
Great designers associate with other great designers. By listing our job opportunities on your site, we're aligning ourselves with an audience that likewise appreciates unequivocally beautiful and functional design. While posting on Monster.com certainly offers a larger quantity of candidates, your site ultimately provides far better quality.
Aaron Dragushan of Wondermill Webworks posted detailed results from their quest to find a designer using several targeted job boards. Cost per qualified applicant was higher with Authentic Jobs than a couple others but ultimately helped them find the final hire.
