• Iain Porter (unregistered) in reply to Jackal von ÖRF

    Not sure how much it matters to Americans, but your spelling's still a bit fucked in places. Perspective, almost everywhere you've used it, should be 'prospective'. In the 'employers' section, you use the word 'Inactivate', which should be 'Deactivate'. Like I say, that might not matter that much over in the USA but to me it looks unprofessional.

     

  • (cs) in reply to CodeWhisperer
    CodeWhisperer:

    I guess I'm not following how this guarantees good jobs or good candidates.    Last year I spent 2 months doing non-stop interviews to fill 5-6 developer positions...we had recruiters working full time, we had consulting companies shopping their people through, we had people contacting us directly.  What is it about your plan that would have made that job easier?  How do you help to nudge the signal-to-noise ratio in the right direction?   (Why are blog readers better candidates, anyway?)  I already had dozens of resumes, that wasn't the problem....It seems like, if anything, it will make the noise worse...

    This story is universal amongst all employers it would seem. And let me ask you, when was the last time you looked for work on your own (no recruiter, no headhunter, etc)? The experience is just as rediculous.

    We're trying to make it better for both parties, but I'll expand on how it helps you, the employer. The main reason that you will receive better candidates is because the ads will primarily be seen by those who are already-employed and who are inherently passionate about learning more about their field of study. These are the ideal candidates. No, they're not all perfect, but who wuold you want: the person who spends his freetime on MySpace.com or on .NET Blogs?

    However, as an employer using the service, it's your responsibility to write the "different" kind of ad that will attract the already employed and convince them to consider you. Remember, according to SHRM, 40% of employes would consider it. 35% are Actively Looking.

  • (cs) in reply to Iain Porter
    Anonymous:

    Not sure how much it matters to Americans, but your spelling's still a bit fucked in places. Perspective, almost everywhere you've used it, should be 'prospective'. In the 'employers' section, you use the word 'Inactivate', which should be 'Deactivate'. Like I say, that might not matter that much over in the USA but to me it looks unprofessional.

     

    Thank you, this is important to us. We're not writers and we don't have a professional copywriter on staff to help us with this, so please forgive the errors.

    BTW -- maybe this is a WTF on its own, but according to only some online dictionaries, Inactivate is a word. But not all dictionaries. WTF.

  • cj (unregistered)

    a suggestion about your sidebar ads.  i'm a big user of "open in background tab" in firefox, so when i tried to right click on a web developer job posting link and got the standard web page options, i was a bit frustrated.  if it looks like a link, it should act like a link, even if you didn't code it to be a link.  how's that for messed up?  :)  i would suggest giving people the context menu they expect to see when they right click on those things.  this was a big turn off for me, personally.

  • qualified_trash (unregistered) in reply to Iain Porter

    The blogger application form also has Submit Appliation instead of Submit Application

  • Another contractor (unregistered) in reply to qualified_trash

    Please please please can we show jobs on the board by country first (i.e. England, London rather than London, England) - it will make sorting them so much more useful!!!

  • (cs)

    Considering that you're billing them as "non-WTF jobs" could you spike the one demanding 5 years C# experience?

     

  • (cs) in reply to cj

    Anonymous:
    if it looks like a link, it should act like a link, even if you didn't code it to be a link. 

    I will change this. I followed AdSense's lead and made it one big onclick. But I suppose that blog readers are smart enough to notice that the Title part is a link and click on it.

     

    Please please please can we show jobs on the board by country first

    This will be improved shortly, promise.

    could you spike the one demanding 5 years C# experience?

    I've been a C# coder since '01 myself (started in beta) .... perhaps they're looking for people who've been with it since day one. In any case, please email us if you notice ANY job is off. There's an approval process and we review each ad before its live.

  • (cs) in reply to Alex Papadimoulis

    Alex Papadimoulis:
    I'll expand on how it helps you, the employer... you will receive better candidates  because the ads will primarily be seen by those who are already-employed and who are inherently passionate about learning more about their field of study. These are the ideal candidates...who wuold you want: the person who spends his freetime on MySpace.com or on .NET Blogs?

    I have to say that I ran out of ways to question those statements... how do you know they are employed?  How does going to a blog = 'inherent passion'?  Why are unemployed people by definition bad potential employees? 

    And are .NET Blog readers and MySpace users my only choices?  I'd argue that I'd rather have the dev who spends his time programming and experimenting and who knows how to do things on their own without going to .NET blogs for help -- THOSE are the ideal candidates.  (And that's leaving aside the fact that the blogosphere isn't generally well known for critical reasoning skills...) 

    Sorry, Alex, that just wasn't a very compelling sales pitch.  But, no worries, good luck with it.

    -cw
    (And, for the record, most of my jobs have been either ones I found, or where they found me...I avoid recruiters like the plague)

  • Jonathan (unregistered)

    Already adblocked. Thanks for the heads up.

  • eric (unregistered)

        i've been linked to this site from time to time, and always enjoyed it. That said, the stench of marketing-speak and double-talk emanate from both your initial blog post, and all of your posts on the forum. is there anyone here that doubts "We" and "my consulting company" means "alex" in every use of the word? Visiting www.inedo.com did nothing to bolster my hopes of legitimacy:

    • NO contact information, not even your state/country of residence, is given.
    • Your partners page is devoid of partners. But not of more marketing speak!

    I wish you'd never invited us to take these steps and question your legitimacy as a tech authority. But when you present yourself as one, then offer a service based on said authority to make money, you are inviting this scrutiny. I was perfectly happy believing you were "one of us".

    I'd love it if you'd just stick to linking to, and not providing, the WTF :)

    -eric williams

    (captcha: craptastic. indeed.)
     

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