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Re:Beware Programming Language Requirements On Job Postings by kailoa on Monday May 11, 2009 @03:31PM (#604130)
I don't know why technical interviews/recruiting are such a fascinating subject. I think it is related to the fact that they are such an imperfect mechanism for finding employees/partners.

Well known cliches like the 10x more effective programmer and the Microsoft/Google methods of recruiting add to the mysticism.

This particular article has some good tips though I'm not sure how practical it is. Modern recruiting uses extensive keyword searching. Unless your goal is to weed out some of that, this kind of job posting may not get too many hits.

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Re:Beware Programming Language Requirements On Job Postings by robin_bb on Monday May 11, 2009 @04:52PM (#604303)
kailoa makes a good point: removing keywords from the job posting risks not appearing in a potential employee's search.

I think that the trick is to have "just the right" keywords, and no more. The particular example that I give in the article has too many. So, fewer is better, in that case.

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