[ale] OT: unemployed list

[Geoffrey]

Fulton Green wrote:
> I vote for "ale-career".  That way, people could send re'sume's (with
> contact info censored if necessary) through that channel as well.

Sounds reasonable.

> I'd also advocate that this "ale-career" list (or whatever it gets called)
> be distributed to the same list as "ale", but with the "ale-career" tag.

I disagree.  This would defeat the purpose of having two separate lists.

> My justification for doing so is that the current "ale-unemployed"
> subscription process isn't exactly automatic, and I fear that qualified
> job-seeking professionals might miss my postings b/c they didn't know or
> think to bother to subscribe to the separate list.

Their decision.

> Alternately, if I got
> laid off this Friday (a likely day for layoffs since it's the trifecta of
> being end-of-month, Friday and Halloween) and posted my re'sume' on
> Monday, I'd be afraid that some of you all working for companies with
> decent software engineering jobs out there wouldn't notice me.

I'd submit that you should then post to the ale list:

OT: lost my job, looking for another

I think we should still keep the lists separate.

> Unsubscription from the sublist would be as simple as a Subject: filter.
> And I'm assuming that the listserv software can blacklist any recruiters
> that choose to abuse the system.

Yes.

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