To throw my two-bits in the debate -- here's how the Information System department handles jobs. https://island.byu.edu/jobs/118
Any student or alumni can post jobs as well as recruiters who request the recruiter login info. New jobs are posted in a block on the front page. Those interested in receiving notices about new jobs can sign up for email notices or subscribe to the RSS feed. I don't mind having job postings on the UUG website but flash = ugly and I like the job posting process to be transparent that anyone who wants to post jobs can. Kyle On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 22:11 -0500, Peter McNabb wrote: > > One of the intentions of putting up the ads is that they are job > > postings. They map 1:1 with real jobs that members of the UUG (many of > > whom are in college and looking for future jobs) may be interested in > > applying for. > > There are already many more useful resources BYU students can turn to to > find jobs. If all you want is a generic job or a generic employee, why > not just go to a job fair, visit Monster.com, or apply for an > internship? > > What can the UUG do well that others can't? How about a single link to a > page explaining to employers how to post jobs to the list. Prepare > employers by describing the audience and culture of the UUG. If they > want to try their luck posting ASP.Net jobs, let them. Maybe they're > looking for people able to help them move to Mono on FreeBSD. By taking > the time to target the message, they make themselves much more > interesting than a tacky flash ad blindly broadcast to every Web site > that'll have them. > > > We have the ability to select what types of jobs appear. If people are > > extremely against showing a job for a java programmer, it's possible > > to not list "java" jobs. The hosting company is relatively new and is > > still making connections with potential employers. > > So it's tacky _and_ not very useful? Sweet! > > > As they continue to develop, we'll have more control over appearance > > of job postings for better integration to the UUG site. I'm not > > certain, but it may be possible to use plain html in place of flash. > > It had better be. I don't want tiny, ugly flash ads forced on people > that aren't interested. I want a full dedicated page I can search and > filter. It's fine to put a link on the front page that interested > members can follow to a dedicated page. But a vertical flash banner on > the home page just makes the UUG look pathetic. > > The UUG Web site isn't a personal site, it isn't a startup, and it isn't > some toy project by a high school graduate. It's a .edu or .org, not > a .com > > > The club has not collected any money, and we still need to determine > > if we even want to do that. Something to consider is directly donating > > any generated revenue to an organization of our choice. Why not donate > > to the FSF as another way of showing our support for free software? > > (https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom) > > I could get behind that, but not as it was implemented with an ugly > flash ad on the home page. The UUG should be providing resources to > members. Maybe that includes helping members prepare for and find > internships and employment after graduation. But I think we can better > accomplish that with education than ads. > > The UUG shouldn't be helping some brand new company test its slow > loading, tacky flash ad. No matter how many check boxes we can click to > help them market to us. > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- Research Assistant eBusiness Center @ BYU kyle.mathews2000.com/blog
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