Hey guys, I used to be able to hit the craigslist opml file for the whole country and find many coldfusion gigs/jobs. Times seem to have changed. Now the only things I can find are "services" that require you to go through layers of indian recruiters.

I just searched LinkedIn for

CFML

(35 results) and

ColdFusion

(567 results) in the US. I'd never considered Craigslist as a possible source of jobs 👀 (I never considered Craigslist as a reputable source of anything!). For comparison searching LinkedIn for

Clojure

in the US yields 647 jobs so that's pretty comparable to CF. It's been more than a decade since I was last looking for freelance/gigs tho' (rather than FTE jobs), so I don't know what a good source of those would be -- most of mine came through word of mouth via contacts in this community.

2 of my clients that I've had for over 10 years I met through craigslist in the gigs section. I've done some checking over the past 5 years or so, and like gus says, it's pretty dead.

Coldfusion isnt dead, just the preception of it and the will to market it.

There are tons of CF jobs, and more coming. Every company rep I talked shop with during summit is growing their teams over the next year. We have plans in flight to try and do a bit of consolidation of all of the various places to hunt for jobs. Just too many spots right now, and in some cases the companies just don't know where to post or look. Several told me that when they tried to post jobs they were inundated with recruiters trying to place foreign workers into positions that were clearly listed as "U.S. only", as they were either government or military (or contractors for the same) positions.

I just saw this but I will say the closer the Adobe Cf certification can be “preferred” or even “required” <gasp>…by employers then the easier I think it will be to drive traffic to any Adobe based resource for hiring.

As a hiring manager (for close to 30 years now), I've never "preferred" or "required" any certification for any role -- I think most certifications are junk: they're often "clever" quizzes that certain folks do better at than others (and some folks can just cram the knowledge to pass the cert, but have absolutely no real ability). I've certainly interviewed quite a few "certified" people that I wouldn't even hire as an entry level developer, despite years of "experience" as well as their qualifications.