Thursday, January 26, 2012
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Dave Aronson <googlegroups2dave@davearonson.com> wrote:
-- On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:06, Peter Hickman
<peterhickman386@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Getting the subject line right is important,
> something like
>
> [JOB] 2 x Rails developers with 2+ years experience for online gaming
> startup in NYC
The main tweak I'd make to that is to put the location earlier, and
maybe be a bit terser. Some email clients have very little room for
the Subject in a listing. Also be sure to include if remote is OK,
e.g., "[JOB] NYC/Remote 2 RoR devs w/ 2+ yrs exp for gaming startup".
TL;DR
* broadcasting is inefficient
* anyone cares for a "community job site" ??
* I object to massive job spam on this list
Broadcasting _all_ jobs to _all_ readers seems horrendously inefficient.
I already got nervous with the recent few "job" announcements that
where totally irrelevant for me (and probably 90% of the readers).
And indeed, the worst of it is, you need to read half of the text to figure
out it is in NY, Berlin or SFO ...
I seems so much more efficient if you at least one can filter on a few
basic criteria like:
* location of work (that is _not_ location of employer, client or recruiter)
* a few keywords/tags (front-end, back-end, javascript, ...)
* recommendations (for the job/employer, I mean)
I spent 6 months on my own money setting up a free job job site (that was
2008, my first Rails project), but no real success (technically, it was great,
it had 1,000 high-tech/start-up jobs that where otherwise not publicized that
I scraped from 100 high-tech companies' job sites, around university of
Leuven in Belgium ; http://allejobsinleuven.be in case anybody cares).
Recently, I picked up a similar idea again, but let go much faster.
FWIW, I might well spent some time/money again for the third time to build
a simple free job listing system if people would be interested. At least, I am
not aware of the "default" spot where all the Ruby/Rails jobs, projects,
available people are listed (if that exists, certainly interested to know).
Maybe, it even makes sense to build that as an open source/community
project, so _we_ (and not the recruiters) can decide how the thing works ...
Revenue could come from "VIP" jobs that get more prominent html
decorations.
I you give me positive feedback, I am on it! If I get no feedback, no prob,
just confirms previous conclusions :-)
In any case, I object somewhat to a massive amount of job spam on
this list (but indeed, I could filter on the [JOB] in the subject line).
Curious for any feedback,
Peter
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