The Voice needs to replace Tony Ortega, who jumped ship/got pushed out of the alt weekly last week and is now focusing on Scientology-related pursuits. The ad for the position (below) was posted today on JournalismJobs.com.

The Village Voice is looking for an experienced New York editor to lead and shape its weekly newspaper/daily website and to continue its legacy of award-winning journalism.

Ideal candidates will be passionate about local news and politics and adept at story generation and development, for both long-form narrative work and daily blogging. They will understand how the city’s arts and culture appeal to Voice readers. They must work exceptionally well with words and people.

The Village Voice offers competitive salaries and benefits. The interview process will include an editing test. Qualified applicants should send a resume and a substantive letter explaining why the Voice needs you now. Include recent clips, if you have them. Submit applications to NY-editor@villagevoice.com.

Not stated in the description: no more than one post on Scientology per week.

But if you are somebody who works “exceptionally well with words and people,” hurry up and start polishing those résumés. The posting expires on October 25.

Pressure to make the right bet is high.

Etsy or Tumblr? GroupMe or Gilt Groupe?

What if you pass on the next Facebook in favor of the next... we don't know. MyKinda?

Here's an apparently legitimate job posting from 1994, unearthed by Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb (originally posted on a question on the question-and-answer site Quora): "Well-capitalized startup seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet."

The ad says:

Well-capitalized start-up seeks extremely talented C/C++/Unix
developers to help pioneer commerce on the Internet. You must have
experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable)
systems, and you should be able to do so in about one-third the time
that most competent people think possible. You should have a BS, MS,
or PhD in Computer Science or the equivalent. Top-notch communication
skills are essential. Familiarity with web servers and HTML would be
helpful but is not necessary.

Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers. Must
be willing to relocate to the Seattle area (we will help cover moving
costs).

Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership.

Send resume and cover letter to Jeff Bezos:

mail: be...@netcom.com
fax: 206/828-0951
US mail: Cadabra, Inc.
10704 N.E. 28th St.
Bellevue, WA 98004

We are an equal opportunity employer.

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"It's easier to invent the future than to predict it." -- Alan Kay

The ad, archived by Google, was for a company started by Jeff Bezos called Abracadabra, which relaunched as Amazon.com.

"Meaningful equity ownership" in an ecommerce company. Would you have bit?

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Even ZocDoc, which Crain's named the best place to work in the New York area based on benefits and an employee satisfaction survey, is having trouble staffing. ZocDoc is looking for ten engineers, Nick Ganju, CTO of ZocDoc, told The Observer yesterday at a techie snowball fight in Madison Square Park.

Ganju gets one hire out of every 500 resumes, which means he needs to get thousands of applicants in order to fill the open slots. Which is why he was passing out business cards at a snowball fight.

On Quora, the question, "Which startups in NY are hiring", is updated weekly with new answers, turning the question-and-answer site into a job board.

"33Across is hiring engineers! We're looking for back-end engineers (C++/Java/Hadoop) as well as research engineers (machine learning, social networks) to help us work on our core ad targeting technology," senior software engineer John B. Lee posted on Sunday.

Wine startup Lot18 is hiring a Web engineer, front-end developer and mobile application developer, the company posted Monday.

Good luck to them--they're competing with Etsy, Foursquare, Bit.ly, Tumblr, Gilt Groupe, Meetup and SecondMarket, which are all hiring for technical positions.

And if the economy gets better, the competition for engineering talent could get even tougher."If there is any meaningful uptick in the economy, good talent that may be on the sidelines will be gone and entrepreneurs will have a tough time hiring on their own," executive recruiter Sean Carroll of Polachi in New York told VentureBeat today.

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