[linuxjobs] Linux Sysadmin required in Theale, Berkshire

[Darren Austin]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
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Alasdair,
  Is it possible to set the list up so that jobs cannot be advertised unless 
they explicitly provide a salary?

A regular expression which matches a £ sign and some numbers would force 
advertisers to include such information in their posts.

I certainly don't want to limit the number of jobs posted here (infact I was 
one of the ones calling for contract jobs to remain on this list), but it's 
begining to take the pish that jobs are being advertised with no indicaton 
of salary.

I had a similar debate about this on the Birmingham LUG list fter the 
mobilefun job was advertised with no salary - it's obvious that these 
companies are seeking the earth in terms of knowledge requirements, but not 
willing to pay the rates for those skills -- cheapskates.

They prefer not to add salary information (hiding behind faff like "we pay 
what a person is worth", and "the salary range is too braud") because they 
know people will not even look at the role because the salary listed is 
extracting the urine.  But they are happy for us job seekers to waste our 
time with covering letters and "tell us why you would suit the role" gubbins 
before they'll admit they are being such cheapskates.

They need to put up or shut up, IMO.
After all, you wouldn't expect to go into a shop to buy some coffee without 
the price being listed on the shelf; with the only way to find out the price 
of the coffee being to write a covering letter to the store manager.

Darren.

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