alden@smiley.DEC (Ken Alden, 381-2317) (02/07/85)
I tend to agree that comercial use of NET.JOBS is not an acceptable practice. However, I see nothing wrong with headhunter firms *reading* the network for people who are looking for jobs and contacting those people via telephone. But posting their jobs on the network *is* costing others a lot of money and resources, and there are national databases for doing just that. -Ken Alden
ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan) (02/10/85)
In article <470@decwrl.UUCP> alden@smiley.DEC (Ken Alden, 381-2317) writes: >I tend to agree that comercial use of NET.JOBS is not an acceptable practice. >However, I see nothing wrong with headhunter firms *reading* the network >for people who are looking for jobs and contacting those people via >telephone. But posting their jobs on the network *is* costing others a lot >of money and resources, and there are national databases for doing just that. > >-Ken Alden Perhaps you can explain the defference between a company or a university posting a note on a job opening and a head-hunter doing the same. In both cases a company paying for news routing may loose a valued employee. On the other hand many companies, including my own, post openings for jobs. Also those of you who are in academia, please refrain from calling head hunters "vultures" etc... For those of us who periodically have had to search for work, head hunters are a valuable resource. From the other end, we also use them to locate employees. Leave you ivory tower mentality off the net, or express it in net.flame with the other garbage. Flames to /dev/null Ian Kaplan Loral Instrumentation (619) 560-5888 x4812 USENET: {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!ian ARPA: sdcc6!loral!ian@UCSD USPS: 8401 Aero Dr. San Diego, CA 92123