Question:
Specific location information in body of note. That is, information
that will tell most folks on the list where the job is. One poster listed
job locations such as "Peninsula" and "E. Bay." OK. Which peninsula, and
which bay? I live on the Delmarva Peninsula, within 60 miles of Delaware
Bay, but I don't think that's where these jobs were.
Answer:
I can understand why you'd suggest this, but I disagree. Garrett Romaine
posts a list of jobs in the Portland, Oregon area once a month -- there are
generally a couple dozen different companies in the list. I find it very
useful to have *one* message telling me what's available in my area (not
that I am looking... now).
I must agree in the strongest terms with both Thom and Paul. There are
numerous forums where recruiting firms can post their listings; the internet has
many job-listing-specific websites in other regions outside the Bay Area,
not to mention several that cover the entire country. In addition, there
are several nationwide BBS systems such as DICE that are for recruiters
only, and the STC has a growing number of regional job-leads e-mail
distribution lists which are open to recruiters (including the Bay Area
list). I think TECHWR-L can be a very good place to post occasional direct
job leads, but an ongoing high volume of recruiting-firm leads would be
detrimental.
This list is quite busy, hence I (and quite probably many others here) have
a very strict habit about what we read. I can tell you right now, if you're
posting job openings on this list, you're probably not reaching me. (If
you're a list member posting, you probably don't care. OTOH, if you're
recruiter, you might care about the reduction in your audience.)
If it's a job posting, and it's being posted by someone I recognize and
trust from prior posts to the list (on almost any topic) I'll *possibly*
read it (like anyone else, I enjoy working with Good People). Any other
job/contract posts head for the bit bucket as fast as I can delete them.
This automatically excludes all recruiters (as they probably haven't posted
anything intelligent to this list -- no offense meant, they're recruiters,
not writers; I'm sure if the subject was recruiting, they could come up
with many worthwhile posts) and a finite (though, for the sake of our mail
gateway, unspecified) percentage of "real" listmembers.
