[consulting] Encourage people to post jobs on groups

[Ron Dorman]

There is the Job Search module by kbahey. What about installing it on 
g.d.o. (or wherever) to provide the functionality desired?

RonD


Earnest Berry III wrote:
> 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
> -----Original Message-----
> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
> On Behalf Of Sean Effel
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:30 AM
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> 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