[I *think* this is the right list. Arguably, lopsa-profession would be better, but it appears to be completely defunct, or so the archives would have me believe. Please redirect me if warranted.]
I'm the lead sysadmin, network engineer, and occasional HVAC tech at a small software shop near Boston. We're a combined IT and operations team of three, and we need to be four, and that means writing a want ad. The majority of want ads fall into a few easily sortable buckets: - the large company where everything about hiring is controlled by HR. The ad features an acre of boilerplate text, legal reassurances that mean nothing because violating them really would be illegal, and ends with an invitation to submit a resume at a website which either asks you to complete a dozen-page profile or mangles the parsing of your uploaded resume... or both. - the startup buzzword factory looking for a SuperNinjaRockStar DevOps person. - the non-technical company which wrote a job description by summarizing what people think Bob did, and wants somebody just like Bob. (Sometimes this works out well. Other times, it turns out that the reason Bob left is that nobody recognized what he was really doing to hold the company together.) - the recruiter who has a list of technological skills that must be checked off, but no actual understanding of the company or the job. Please assume, for the sake of discussion, that we can avoid most of the above traps. What, as an experienced systems administrator, could actually attract your attention to a job ad? What holds your attention long enough for you to write a thoughtful cover letter and update your resume? Suggestions from this thread are likely to be used in an ad on sajobs in the near future. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
