Timeline for Why does the careers 2.0 site cater to programmers only?
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| Jan 7, 2014 at 23:31 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @AndrewB: I have found one piece of evidence that suggests non-development skills are valued: a Careers profile can link to answers on more sites than just SO. But only the one, and in light of the overwhelming focus on development (profile wants you to link source code repositories for open source projects and contributions, etc), that could just be an acknowledgement of the vertical market skills many programmers possess. | |
| Jan 7, 2014 at 23:23 | comment | added | Andrew B | I upvoted RobM's comments at first, but I think Ben is actually right. 1) I've gotten one of the automatic invites, but on further research that was as a result of answering a question that was migrated to SO. 2) careers.SO/about. Seriously, read it. Every bit of research that I try to do in support of RobM's stance -- the one that I naturally gravitate toward -- shows that they are marketing themselves directly to programmers. There's nothing to stop it from being used as monster.SE, but that's not what they say they are. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 2:52 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | That's a serious question, btw. If the careers team is reviewing all postings and explicitly approving the "come be a salesperson for our startup" garbage (scam), I'll know it's a listing site I don't want to be a part of. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 2:50 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | It's not "Stack Exchange's version". It's what Stack Exchange built to be StackOverflow's job site. Do the Careers Sales team review every advert? I seriously doubt it, based on the quality of what gets in. I suspect they only approve on a per company basis, and the company is then free to post a certain number of openings and contact a certain number of users. Or maybe the latter is unlimited. Spamminess of the requests I saw certainly suggest it is unlimited. | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 14:54 | comment | added | Rob Moir | You don't appear to understand what careers.SO is. It's stack exchange's own version of monster and the like, no more and no less. Stack Exchange users can host profiles there and companies can pay to advertise there. If the Stack Overflow Careers Sales Team accept a job advert, then it is by definition not off topic. You seem to suggest you have a profile on there, so I'm unsure why you don't seem to understand this. "careers.SF" would certainly serve sysadmins better of course, but that doesn't make sysadmin jobs "offtopic" on careers.SO, or the site "for programmers only". | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 14:04 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @RobM: So some posts on careers.stackoverflow.com are off-topic, how is that a surprise? People post sysadmin questions on SO frequently. They are off-topic and get closed. (Certainly all those who contacted me before I blocked inquiries were horrible fits, my impression is that headhunters don't care about good matches at all) Sysadmin job postings would be appropriate on a site named "careers.stackexchange.com", as your comments and answer seems to assume that it is. But it is not. There still is room for "careers.serverfault.com". It just doesn't exist yet. | |
| Jan 5, 2014 at 10:18 | comment | added | Rob Moir | No. Just no. While there is an obvious emphasis on programming careers on careers.so site, it's not solely for programmers (see careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=sysadmin)... and even if you were correct, the whole point of @dyasny's question is that it shouldn't be solely orientated towards programmers. This answer could hardly be less useful if you rolled your head backwards and forwards on the keyboard and hit submit on whatever that generated. | |
| Jan 4, 2014 at 17:01 | history | answered | Ben Voigt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |