Contributed by Howie Lyhte, PMP. A former hardware engineer, systems engineer, product line manager and program manager, Howie is looking for a program or project management position developing or delivering technical products.

I discovered LinkUp a couple of months ago from a posting on one of the networking lists. I played with it for a while and found it buggy, so I clicked on the link to report a bug. Well, one thing led to another and I ended up having a long dialog with one of the LinkUp leaders. Frankly, these guys impressed the hell out of me not only because of their concept, but their singularly-attentive customer service.

What makes LinkUp special is that they harvest job postings exclusively from companies’ own web sites, ignoring recruiter sites and other job boards, and then continuously validate that they’re still posted. No spam, no duplicates, no stale listings. Each job listed will tell you how long ago it was posted, and how recently it was verified. You can also create job alerts, get RSS results of a search, and with a single click, you can forward a listing to a friend.

Regarding customer service, the elapsed time from my reporting the initial bug to getting an answer that addressed it was about two and a half hours! Several more emails went back and forth over the next few days and these guys really understand “voice of the customer”. I have come to believe that LinkUp is really passionate about providing the best job search engine available, and have the talent and ability to do just that.

Oh yeah, it’s www.linkup.com if you didn’t guess!.

In full disclosure, I have no connection to LinkUp other than being a satisfied user. One of the joys of networking is being able to share a “find”, and I’m smiling as I type this.