New rule for posting jobs
25 Aug 2010 - 5:11am
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Danny Hope
2008
What do people think about a new rule requiring recruiters to append "[JOB]" to message subjects of job postings?
Like this: [IxDA] [JOB] Senior Interaction designer
This could be enforced by something like a 3 strikes and you're out system.
Do recruiters feel that the IxDA's job board doesn't get enough eyeballs?
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Danny, I did this filter a month ago and I've just get 1 or 2 job postings since then:
Matches: list:"job.ixda.org"
Do this: Skip Inbox, Mark as read, Apply label "IxDA Job"
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Alex Lillo
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Dave Malouf <dave.ixd@gmail.com> wrote:
Even more important than [JOB] is that a job posting includes the location in its subject line.
/Nils-Erik
Nils-Erik Gustafsson
Gustafsson User Interfaces
gui@cmpmail.com
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Subject: [IxDA] New rule for posting jobs
What do people think about a new rule requiring recruiters to append
"[JOB]" to message subjects of job postings?
Like this: [IxDA] [JOB] Senior Interaction designer
This could be enforced by something like a 3 strikes and you're out system.
Do recruiters feel that the IxDA's job board doesn't get enough eyeballs?
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Danny Hope
User Experience Design, Brighton UK
http://dannyhope.co.uk
http://2010.uxbrighton.org.uk
+44 (0)7595 226 792
Hi all,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought all jobs listed on the jobs board are sent out email style to the members list anyway? I.e. it appears exactly the same way as someone creating a job as a discussion. If so, the question here is member having the ability to turn off job notifications, not recruiters posting in an incorrect manner?
Hi Sean,
At the bottom of every e-mail is a link to the page where people can manage their notifications including whether they get discussion posts, job posts, both, neither and on what schedule. If they aren't currently logged in then they'll have to log in first.
Regards,
Greg
Objectively and with a nod to the resource constraints; the problem is not with the users it's with the system.
Ideally there shouldn't be any 'doc' (i.e. rules about posting what to where) other than obvious list etiquette. As designers we need to eat our own dog food here, how often have we pushed back on designs that require the user to workaround their mental model to accommodate system limitations??
Recruiters will post to the list because they want to tell us about a job - end of use case. No if's and's or but's or our part, deal with it accordingly.
In an ideal world with unlimited volunteer effort and on a platform other than drupal we would allow recruiters to post [jobs] to the list and it either gets dumped to the job board automagically or individual readers set the filter as a preference.
Drupal/ixda.discuss already knows what I've read on the website, I don't see it as much of a functional stretch for the system to filter out types of content. If you choose to receive the discussion via email only then we either cull all [jobs] going out via email, make it a preference or offload responsibility to receivers email filters.
Queue & moderate any posts that don't have [jobs] but did not pass a simple auto sniff test.
Danny & David, as Ixdesigners, you two should be taken out back and shot for suggesting the 'users are doing it wrong' (o;
cheers /pauric
My problem with the job listing is that it is not a requirement to mention the city/country in the header.
That would be a huge help if that were to occur. as for the [JOB] prefix, I agree with others: there already is a job list, just need to tweak that before creating new channels.
joe
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Danny Hope <danny.hope@gmail.com> wrote: