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First, I'm a little unfamiliar with this problem--why this bad: "our peers competing to put forward Who Is Hiring threads by submitting them increasingly prema

First, I'm a little unfamiliar with this problem--why this bad: "our peers competing to put forward Who Is Hiring threads by submitting them increasingly prematurely" Maybe this suggests that >1 submission a month is better? Finally, perhaps it'd be best to stagger the three post types throughout the month so they don't compete with each other for attention?

famousactress 16y ago
>1 submission a month is a bummer. It drives the quality of the posts down, and turns into the same employers that are always hiring (guilty, here) into spammers :) 1 good quality, well organized hiring post a month is awesome..
- loire280 16y ago
  If you miss the hiring posts when they're on the front page, you have to trawl through multiple posts (one early one that has some employer posts and a thread about "don't post early). Inconsistent naming could cause you to miss a thread. And this isn't just about making it easier for job seekers -- we want to make this easy for employers to encourage them to come here when they're looking for talent.
  - famousactress 16y ago
    I totally agree, but I don't think multiple posts is the answer.. Either a new tab like 'Ask HN' that keeps these in a longer-lived list.. or an external site. I know a number of HN'ers have stood up external sites for this.. but I don't think anyone's done a good job keeping them simple, and getting the word out. So yeah.. first choice for me would be a top level HN link like 'Ask' or 'comments'.. second choice would be someone write something external that people could always go to for HN job posts.. I'd probably go as far as to karma-wall users posting on the site too..or at least allow users to filter by it.. or just rank job listings by karma achieved in the HN hiring threads. I dunno. But yeah... once a month on actual HN is plenty, IMHO

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First, I'm a little unfamiliar with this problem--why this bad: "our peers competing to put forward Who Is Hiring threads by submitting them increasingly prema

by astrofinch 16y ago

famousactress 16y ago
>1 submission a month is a bummer. It drives the quality of the posts down, and turns into the same employers that are always hiring (guilty, here) into spammers :) 1 good quality, well organized hiring post a month is awesome..
- loire280 16y ago
  If you miss the hiring posts when they're on the front page, you have to trawl through multiple posts (one early one that has some employer posts and a thread about "don't post early). Inconsistent naming could cause you to miss a thread. And this isn't just about making it easier for job seekers -- we want to make this easy for employers to encourage them to come here when they're looking for talent.
  - famousactress 16y ago
    I totally agree, but I don't think multiple posts is the answer.. Either a new tab like 'Ask HN' that keeps these in a longer-lived list.. or an external site. I know a number of HN'ers have stood up external sites for this.. but I don't think anyone's done a good job keeping them simple, and getting the word out. So yeah.. first choice for me would be a top level HN link like 'Ask' or 'comments'.. second choice would be someone write something external that people could always go to for HN job posts.. I'd probably go as far as to karma-wall users posting on the site too..or at least allow users to filter by it.. or just rank job listings by karma achieved in the HN hiring threads. I dunno. But yeah... once a month on actual HN is plenty, IMHO