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When Bullet Points Go Terribly Wrong: How Not to Write a Tech Job Listing
- josefresco 18y agoProbably a copy+paste issue where some of the formatting was stripped. Meh.
- dasil003 18y agoThat must be why they need a VP with HTML skills.
- brk 18y agoAbout 7/8 of the way down: *Must have perseverance to read and understand complex product requirement lists.
- dasil003 18y agoToo bad when they hired the author of the posting the didn't include: * Ability to summarize
- cperciva 18y agoLooks to me like the biggest problem here is a lack of white space -- if there were blank lines before "Implementation & Development", "Management", "Position Requirements", "Knowledge & Expertise", and "Personal Attributes", this would be far more readable.
- Gibbon 18y agoI would have totally applied, but then I saw bullet point no. 114 : Must have pet chicken. Dammit.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoGo to a petting zoo and get it over with, or if it could be a male chicken...
- brm 18y agoSo... what you're saying is you need someone to code AND design AND market your product and we need to have an advanced degree in either Business Adminstration OR Computer Science to prove that we can do it. I hope you're at least bringing cash
- scott_s 18y agoAND administer all of the systems.
- rcoder 18y agoI noticed that, too -- it really looks like they want a single individual who can both make high-level technical decisions and implement + support a bunch of infrastructure at the same time. I would call that person a co-founder, not a CIO, and a particularly over-burdened one, at that.
- lallysingh 18y agoA really good case for basic inline formatting. Any website that takes text blurbs that could be more than a paragraph should support some formatting. At least: bold, italics, blank lines, and bullet/number lists. And please, put a bullet-list of how to format the text to the right of the text box. It's not hard.
- TooMuchNick 18y agoSo you're saying this is a bad job posting because Craigslist must die?
- lallysingh 18y agoNah, that they (and other text-submit-heavy sites) should put in a little formatting support.
- icey 18y agoAm I the only one who saw this, and immediately thought "please don't be my CL job post, please don't be my CL job post"?
- Dilpil 18y agoMistake number one: looking for a vice president on craigslist.
- sabat 18y agoBeyond the obvious overwhelming qualifications, I have to ask: they expect to interview lots of people with five years of startup experience in downtown Chicago? Really?
- chris11 18y ago"As a member of the senior management team, participate in the selection and registration of the company’s web site domain names, including any related-but-unused domains that could compromise the integrity of the business (through competition, typosquatting, etc.)." This makes it sound like they could be having board meetings concerning whether to a register a domain to protect against typo squatting. Also they are asking for someone with exposure with business theory and governance processes. Since they haven't even registered a domain, I'm guessing it's just one or two mba's looking for someone to develop their product.