When creating a job in Groups, it posts them on the sideboard, and then also places them in the center column. For those of us who create jobs that can telecommute from anywhere, we have to sign up for every local group, and the local group gets spammed in the center column with our stuff. I figure the local groups would rather have the focus on what they are working on rather than a ton of us pounding them with job offers. And we're only allowed to choose 4 locales at a time.
So I suggest the following:
1. removing job listings from the main column.
2. Creating a new taxonomy for development groups vs locative groups (maybe broken down by country.)
3. Allowing job descriptions to be posted across all locations in said taxonomy with one click rather than signing up for a million groups.
OR
have a preference setting allowing group admins to choose wether job listings can be posted to the main section of their group.
Thoughts?
Comments
agree and disagree
I think we should
1) remove jobs from the main "River of News" flow
2) (dude, they're not taxonomies) but a feature to separate the audience selection by some sort of categorization would be good
3) agreed
4) encourage more people to visit the jobs page
5) not post (or moderate out) posts of jobs into the geographic groups UNLESS it is for a job that is literally in that geography
I think that remote jobs should go to a job group or the consulting group. If not enough people see it in the "jobs" area then make a "jobs" banner to stick on drupal.org's banner rotation to bring more traffic there, or get a sticky post in the jobs forum, but a telework job that spams all the geographic groups is spam.
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Agreed - a telework job that spams all geographic groups is spam
Agreed!
An an example, I don't mind occasional job postings for the Austin Group (I live in Austin) if it involves jobs physically based in Austin. However, if the postings are for telecommuting jobs that can be done from anywhere in the world, than I'd rather not see them as I consider it spam. Most, it not all, telecommuting jobs are more appropriate for the jobs group, as you mentioned.
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new help text posted
adam mordecai from advomatic gave me some text to put on job posting form. her eis is. refinements welcome. so far, i have not removed these posts from river of news view. i am close to doing so though. still, the biggest impact IMO is the email and RSS notifications which I think should not be removed.
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