[consulting] Encourage people to post jobs on groups

[Earnest Berry III]

Yeah, I think it falls into 3 categories though:
1. those who need a quick job done (20-40 hours). Perhaps one time or from
time-to-time.
2. those looking for a FT person (employee).
3. those with large RFP's looking for a team and/or company to take on a
project.

The main issue is that those who post in any of those categories seem not to
be able to ever target the audience they are looking for. E.g. a large RFP
will get a bid from a 1-2 man team (when its really a 6-7 man job), or
someone trying to get a FT person will get responses from people/companies
offering hourly consulting or some time of remote/part-time work. 

Whatever job-posting solution comes out of all this, there needs to be some
good definitions of the different categories, and ways for people to post
and filter on those categories.

IMHO

- E
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Subject: Re: [consulting] Encourage people to post jobs on groups

On 5/25/07 7:04 AM, dries.buytaert at gmail.com hollered:

> 
> On 25 May 2007, at 12:40, Fabio Varesano wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe the reason could be having the job listing displayed in a well
>> organized table which can be searched for some parameters.
> 
> Yep, if that is considered a big win (and it might well be), we
> should nuke the jobs forum, and give more visibility to the jobs group.
> 
> --
> Dries Buytaert  ::  http://www.buytaert.net/


Here is an additional thought, though half-baked.  Its possible to take the
job postings offsite and leave that arena to people and orgs who already
manage that content well.

There are a number of decently established "find a job" type of websites for
developers, one I have had success with is rentacoder.com (just an example,
not a definitive).  Maybe part of our Drupal community should colonize a
category within a site like this, and send our job postings there.  The
advantage is that its a place many people already approach with finding and
offering all varieties of work, not just Drupal.  I am sure that there are
ways to cross post and aggregate listings from outside channels.

Sean Effel

http://www.drupaltherapy.com

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