Recently Cal Evans took an informal survey of fellow Twitter users and asked them what they thought was most important to see in a job ad for a developer position. In this new post he shares some of the results and responses to the question (with a surprising range of answers).

In my book “Culture of Respect” I have a section on writing job ads that will attract developers. I am in the process of revising that chapter, so I thought I would ask the people who actually read the job ads what they look for. The results weren’t that surprising to me. Having read a lot of job ads though, I am guessing that the results will be surprising to some managers out there.

He's embedded the tweets themselves in the post (straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak). Responses touch on subjects like:

• salary requirements
• clear definition of duties
• less "buzz words"
• well-defined list of technologies they'll be working with

The results are interesting and a definite must read for anyone coming up with job postings for open developer roles in your company.