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My dad was an IT manager back in the 1980s, for a Fortune 500 company. He said it was a common end-run around certain compliance requirements. Like, if they h
by hotsauceror 7y ago
My dad was an IT manager back in the 1980s, for a Fortune 500 company. He said it was a common end-run around certain compliance requirements. Like, if they had a candidate that they knew they wanted to hire for a position, but that required a public posting to ensure that hiring, in general, was fair to everyone, they would post the opening in the classified section of the Wall Street Journal, knowing that no one in their right mind would look there for job postings.
- doublement 7y ago> ...no one in their right mind would look there for job postings I'm not sure if it's quite the same thing, but 6-7 years ago I saw an employment ad from a well-known tech company in the local Craigslist, with only a postal address listed and no phone or email. I sent a paper resume to the address. They got back to me after a long delay, when I'd already found other work.
- hotsauceror 7y agoI actually got my first IT job by responding to an ad on Craigslist. At the time it seemed to me like the sort of “guerrilla marketing” that a company I’d want to work for would do. This was in 2008.