mancuso@psuvax.UUCP (Pat Mancuso) (10/21/83)
There is an ad in the September issue of BYTE magazine (p.509)
for an online job search service called CLEO-Computer Listings of
Employment Opportunities. The ad says that you can set search
parameters (geographic location, company, category, etc.) to get a
listing of jobs. It even sounds like it's free (except for long
distance charges), so it might be worth the call. Has anyone
heard of this service (put out by the Copley Press) or tried it?
I know nothing about this service other than what I read in the
ad, and I don't know anyone who has tried it. What's the deal??
:*: Pat Mancuso
:*: Penn State University
:*: {burdvax, allegra}!psuvax!mancuso
PS- I have the phone numbers that are listed in the ad, and if you
would like them, let me know (by mail). If there is enough
interest, I'll post them, but for now I think I have given them
enough *free* advertising.ken@turtleva.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (10/24/83)
I have tried the CLEO service, and haven't been delighted with its user interface. First of all, it is only 300 baud, and the UART should be set to 8 bits and no parity, or something like that, which is different from UNIX. There is a hierarchical search tree, but there is no way to go up just one level, so you must go all the way to the top and start over. There are about 50 catagories of job types, but you don't know this until you've gone through and scrolled through all of the second-level menus. I wasn't quite sure whether to look under Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Math, and after going through all of them, I'm still not sure. It makes you go through a lot of work to get to the proper job classification, and then has hardly any or no listings.