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Review: EVE-Careers.com

Published on 11. Jul, 2008 ... written by Sam Guss, Tags: Reviews

Considering my emphasis in a couple of my articles on making sure you find yourself a good Corporation or Pirate Clan, Eve-Careers ties into this theme for those who may not have real-life contacts with other Eve players, or for those who with their friends are looking for a new home.

The website is all about bringing pilots and Corporations together without having to fly all around Eve in order to find this same information out. The site does use API keys to keep everything updated – though it appears at the time of this review to be disabled while the site administrator works out some kinks in the system. Because of this I would definitely follow through on anything you find here by contacting the pilots or Corporations directly; something that should be done anyway before you blindly recruit or decide on a new home.

While the site does offer Forums and some information pages on how to fully use the site, the main two features of this website is the Corporations side, which lists several hundred Corporations and Pirate Clans and a Pilot side which currently lists 5 pilots actively looking for a new home at the time of this review. This gives me the sense that Corporations are definitely in more need of pilots currently rather than the other way around. The site lists that it has 2,247 pilots and 911 corporations trying to seek each other out, however not all of them are actively looking at the time of this review. It appears that there is a 2-week activity clause in order to stay listed (least for pilots).

Navigation: 5 out of 5
Navigation is simple enough, the links are at the top of every page for the main areas of the website and the information appears in the middle of the page. I like how they made everything searchable and allow you complete control on what you are looking for. For example on the Corporations side you can choose what matters to you in a Corporation in a simple “Yes, No or Doesn’t Matter” setting. These settings are: PvP, Mining, Missions, Production, Empire, 0.0, Pirating, and Fleet. The results then tally in the main window for you.

Information: 4 out of 5
With the understanding that some of this information may or may not be out of date, each corporation has a page that tells you about the Corporation and many have external links for you to check out their own websites or job listings. On the pilot side it brings up a pilot page where they can be contacted (if you are logged in – which means registration required) and tells you about them.

Style: 2 out of 5
Perhaps I am a little picky, as I’ve said it again in other reviews: With Eve being such a fantastic graphic game, it’s community and fan sites should reflect that. In this case, I don’t think that a major graphics job would work for what this site does. However, it doesn’t mean there shouldn’t still be some style. Since this website is like the help-wanted section of a newspaper, then the style should reflect that though perhaps in a more futuristic sense.

Overall: 3.5 out of 5
This site is a great resource for the Eve community. Whether you are a new pilot looking for your first job, or a Corporation looking to recruit, this should definitely be your first stop.

Once the website is back to full operation by working with API keys, this site should be rated 4 out of 5, since right now it is hard to determine whether all of the information is up to date or not.