On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Dave Aronson < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:06, Peter Hickman > <[email protected]> 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
