Re: Job Announcements (was Linux TCP/IP Stack Developer)
From: Stephen Satchell
Date: Sat Oct 11 2003 - 17:19:19 EST
At 11:29 PM 10/11/2003 +0200, you wrote:
So the only way to prevent this from happening, is to forbid them to do it,
even if some people may miss one good opportunity. There are sites for this,
even newsgroups, so it clearly doesn't have its place here. I'm sure David
also has a lot of other reasons for this, but I sincerely think that the ones
I exposed here are already good justifications by themselves
Willy, I agree with almost every word. I remember what happened to UseNet
and some of the early mailing lists when they became over-run with
commercial and self-serving messages (did someone say "kibo"?) and I don't
envy David his job.
Bald prohibitions are easy and nasty. Prohibitions with a steer in the
right direction are just as easy, and comes across as more of a service to
everyone. How much better it would have been for David to have
said something with a positive twist: "Don't do it here, do it at
linux-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" or some such. (Assuming such a list exists --
and if there isn't such a list is it time to start one?)
As for sites and newsgroups, though, I have to take exception to your
observation. I have yet to find one that attracts both potential employers
and potential employees and keeps its listings current. The closest I have
found to an active job list for Linux is Craig's List; sites such as
www.hotlinuxjobs.com are not very up-to-date in the offerings -- every time
I had tried to follow up on a listing from October 2002 to April 2003 I
was told "that job's already filled." The general-purpose jobs sites (Hot
Jobs, Dice, America's Job Bank, and others) have some Linux jobs but
usually as part of a package of jobs, not in isolation.
I'd appreciate specifics on good sites for Linux people, both from the
perspective of an employer and a job seeker.
Satch
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old idea." -- Dr. Edwin H. Land
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