Re:Ask HN: What makes a job posting attractive?
by runjake on Monday September 13, 2010 @11:44AM
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Random bits:
- What company the job posting is for. There's a surprising number of job postings missing this tidbit. It might be fine in a job hungry market, but it's never been fine for me and I usually ignore these postings.
- A real description of the duties. What do you actually want me doing? Will I be working alone or within a team?
- What tools will I be using? It's alarmingly common to go into a job posting for J2EE and find out they're really migrating to .NET (or vice versa). I know a hell of a lot of programming languages, but I've truly mastered only a few.
- What company the job posting is for. There's a surprising number of job postings missing this tidbit. It might be fine in a job hungry market, but it's never been fine for me and I usually ignore these postings.
- A real description of the duties. What do you actually want me doing? Will I be working alone or within a team?
- What tools will I be using? It's alarmingly common to go into a job posting for J2EE and find out they're really migrating to .NET (or vice versa). I know a hell of a lot of programming languages, but I've truly mastered only a few.