Introduction: Report of a study to discover and describe job vacancies for information professionals available online at specific sites and discussion lists between January 2005 and February 2008. Method: The study uses Bardin's content analysis technique and the following analysis criteria: information source, institutional type, professional type, location, qualifications, job description, experience and foreign language requirements. Analysis: The results are compared with national and international studies on the profiles and skills of information professionals. Results: The results show that expansion in Brazil in the field of information and its professionals is still slow and this can be seen from the results presented. Conclusions: The profile for a typical information professional from the job advertisements analysed is for a librarian, with a degree in librarian studies, to perform technical and management functions in a private institution in the city of Sao Paulo.