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It actually will. There's a lot of things we weigh the contextual job ads with. A lot of it is the (public) code you write and the location on your public profile.

We do ask that people explicitly opt-in for the ads (available for hire checkbox). One of the decisions we made while trying to weigh connecting jobs with job-hunters and not becoming an advertising company.



Ah ok, yes it did show me an ad just that it wasn't relevant. (PHP Job Ad when I don't have a single PHP repo)

But it was a telecommute job so maybe it took into account the fact that I'm located in Singapore.


I'm not "available for hire", yet I like to see what companies are offering jobs in my area. Is the checkbox going to be used for more than just showing ads?


Right now, no. In the future, yes. So if you're willing to keep an eye on our blog (we'll warn you before we make this info public) you can check it. Or you can just search on the jobs site itself — http://jobs.github.com


But once again you fail at search. Seriously.

Good work, otherwise. Far more interesting job postings than anywhere else.




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