Job Search Strategios (was Re: Save our jobs.)

Wed Feb 27 17:03:32 PST 2002

>From: Dave Liebreich <bedbug at netcom.com>
>Date: 27 Feb 2002 15:53:58 -0800

>> Craigslist is a good source, as usual.

>...

>Anyway, BrassRing's site appears to list some good jobs, too.

One thing I've noticed in particular about BrassRing is that results of
a search tend to be returned by date that a post was most recently
updated, with the posts with the more recent "mtime" listed first.
(Which I also note is generally a reasonable, and likely good, idea.)

Empirical evidence suggests a tendency for organizations that purport
to have positions open to update their postings on a daily basis.
(Which is less-obviously good, IMO.)

I note one position, in particular, about which I inquired on 11 January
(and received an auto-response that same day), and which continues to
be updated daily so it shows up near the beginning of the search results.
The content of the auto-response demonstrated (to my satisfaction, at
least) that the process that generated the auto-response could not have
passed the Turing Test; I have not heard further from the organization.

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
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