[net.jobs] Guidelines for net.jobs

johnl@ima.UUCP (02/07/85)

Like lots of other readers, I find the recent postings from sol1!sol annoying.
It's not particularly because they're from a headhunter, but because they're
totally vacuous.

Here are a few guidelines for postings to net.jobs:

  1.  No blind messages.  Each message must give the name and location of
      the organization offering the job (or the name of the person asking
      for the job.)

  2.  The description of the job must be longer than the description of the
      fringe benefits (unless the fringes are the only reason to take the
      job, in which case nobody would want it anyway.)

  3.  No more than one exclamation point per line.

  4.  Maximum overall length of 40 lines.  Offer to send longer descriptions
      by mail.

Violators will be disciplined by sending neatly typed letters to their
bosses explaining that their messages were offensive and so no net reader
will ever consider working for that organization (and net readers, after all,
are the creme de la creme of the Unix community, aren't we?)

John Levine, ima!johnl

msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader) (02/15/85)

I'd like to suggest one more guideline.  Anybody posting a job
description should include the location of the job in their Subject line.
Some people are willing to relocate, but many others aren't (and some
want to relocate to a particular area, too).  I like to give net.jobs
a quick subject scan from time to time, and if I only knew that all the
ads were for far away, I could just skip them all (rn's c command).

This is bad:
> Subject: Computer Science Faculty Position opening
This is good:
> Subject: Opportunities at Digital Equipment, Hudson, Mass.

By the way, this is not meant to suggest that I'm looking for work
right now.  I'm not.

Mark Brader