[Gllug] Vacancy: Linux Sysadmin, Desktop Sysadmin, MySQL DBA etc (LONDON)

[Greg McCarroll]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:10:19AM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > and I also don't fully agree with GLLUG's policies on recruitment posts,
> 
> The current policy is the "best fit" I've come up with from all the 
> opinions on this topic I've seen over the years.
> 
> I welcome any and all suggestions for improvements, especially from such 
> a well respected person as yourself.

I'm sure you've confused me with someone else, but anyway. I think
whoever it was that spun off l.pm-jobs from the main list was
influenced by the same muse that inspired Siesta[1]. They basically
created a solution to avoid annoying arguments.

The simple truth is, we all have different levels of tolerance for job
adverts, and during our careers and the events in our careers
(e.g. after redundancy) tolerance changes. So we may well be happy to
let a few requirements slip when we need a job and need to engage with
recruiters. Personally, if my mortgage payment is due I could care
less about mailing list protocol.

Communities like GLLUG and L.pm attract good people, people who care
about their technologies enough to read about them and also discuss
them, so its a smart move by recruiters to target these communities.
And it's good for the employers to recruit from these communities, and
of course good for the people who care enough to get involved with
these communities.

So to balance the range of requirements from a job seeker (which will
vary by circumstance) and still make these communities interface[2]
with recruiters, I believe that 'buy in'[3] into a 2ndry list where
standards are a little more loose is a good approach.

I guess its a case of, you signed up for it, so shut up.

G.

[1] Siesta was a 'modern' mailing list manager in Perl that was
    created just so that everyone who wanted to bitch about Mailman in
    the style of "I'd hack on a MLM if it was written in Perl" would
    be shut up.

[2] Yeah, I'm going to hell for that term.

[3] And yes, thats another level of hell I've just moved down to.
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