[ogb-discuss] Handling of job postings

[Keith M Wesolowski]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:56:46AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:

> I'd be more concerned with finding a couple of committed moderators *at all*; 
> note that nobody has yet volunteered.  I don't really think with this kind of 
> list that bias is a serious danger as long as we don't make a professional 
> recruiter or job-hungry consultant the moderator.

I'll volunteer.  If this becomes a major time sink then it's not
working the way we intend it to anyway.

> I think that all positions should be OK; if we limit it to kernel hacking then 
> we're liable to only see 10 posts a year.  Again, for reference we get about 
> 5-6 posts per week on postgresql-jobs.  I don't expect traffic to be a real 
> problem.

You might be underestimating the enormous number of administration
positions out there that are part-Solaris (where that means anything
from working with Solaris most of the time to "they have a machine
running Solaris 2.5.1 in a different department you might pass once a
year on your way to another Windows emergency").  Or maybe I'm
overestimating the number of people who would post them to one of
these lists.

> I think the one real question is whether we want to make the list "principals 
> only" or whether we want to let recruiters post.  We let recruiters post at 
> postgresql.org, but there's been discussion a couple of times about 
> prohibiting them because of one bait-and-switch recruiter.

Given the way most companies hire these days, principals-only seems
unlikely to yield anything other than a handful of opportunities at
small companies.

> From my perspective, a good jobs board helps grow the community, because it 
> allows hobby contributors to find FTE in opensolaris and then increase the 
> volume of their contributions.  So we should do our best to encourage this.

Agreed.

I also think John's suggesting of splitting the list might be a
reasonable compromise, although we'll need to be very diligent in
making sure posts are categorised properly.  An actual searchable
database would be far more useful, whether our own or at a partner's
site.

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