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> "Any thoughts..." Existing HN hiring threads start with: > "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA i
by dstein64 11y ago
> "Any thoughts..."
Existing HN hiring threads start with:
> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome."
Searching for "intern" matches postings with "internet", "international", etc. I've seen comments suggesting that a search for "remote" matches "no remote".
Here's a quick fix that uses a prefix, for consideration:
> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords +INTERN, +REMOTE, or +VISA if..."
- pash 11y agoIs the +VISA keyword meant to indicate that the hiring company will aid candidates in obtaining a visa, or that the candidate must already have the right to work locally?
- superuser2 11y agoINTERNSHIP would be a nice fix for the "intern" problem. However I suspect that requiring willingness to schlep or dig into regex might be considered by employers to be a feature rather than a bug :).
- Hello71 11y agoI think the point of "who is hiring" posts is to make it easier for people to find your job opening, not harder.
- superuser2 11y agoI think the point is to get it in front of the HN-reading demographic, which is larger than the people who read your website and (arguably) higher-quality than your average job board.
- simi_ 11y agoOr, just have a nice interface on top. Something like http://hnhiring.me/ http://hnhiring.me/, but with actual features - sorting and filtering, for starters. Maybe even embed that functionality into HN for "who's hiring" posts, instead of relying on a 3rd party website.
- dang 11y agoWould INTERNS do? INTERNSHIP is a bit long, and I don't like +INTERN; we like HN threads to consist of plain, good English. It's moot anyway because half the posts would ignore it.
- perspectivezoom 11y agoI was thinking about spec compliance. I think the best thing would be to provide these guidelines in the whoishiring post, and then ask that those who follow the guidelines put a unique string, like "metafriendly" or "whoshiringspec" at the end of the post. Then those of us who write mini-apps would know that the post conforms to the format.
- markdown 11y ago> It's moot anyway because half the posts would ignore it. Clamp down on those. Moderators should moderate. Half the posters already ignore and won't even mention if they allow (or not) REMOTE. These should be removed by the mods and downvoted by everyone else. You'd only have to do this a few times before people wised up and started putting effort into their posting rather than just copypasting their job posting from all the other job sites out there.
- dang 11y ago> Clamp down on those. Moderators should moderate. Our cycles are limited. If we spend time doing that, we won't be able to do other, more valuable things for the community. Plus we'd be miserable, and also you vastly overestimate our power to induce compliance. I agree, though, that copy/pasting job posts from other places goes against the spirit of these threads.
- Hello71 11y ago[INTERN] [REMOTE] [VISA]
- dools 11y agoJust search the word intern with a space after it. Remote matching no remote is harder but if we have a remote indicator why would anyone say no remote? If they did it would be a sign you don't want to work for them ...
- mehrzad 11y ago>Just search the word intern with a space after it. This isn't a solution because posts say "interns welcome" or stuff like that.
- lukasm 11y agoWhenever there is a new hn whoishiring I'm trying to add remote companies to a "persistent" list. The problem is filtering. Please use REMOTE, LOCAL, {COUNTRY, CONTINENT, TIMEZONE}-ONLY Shameless plug: Please send me PRs. https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job
- petercooper 11y agoThere are things the kids are using nowadays called hashtags that might be more familiar to people? :-) #intern #remote etc.
- raverbashing 11y agoJust search for 'intern ' using Ctrl-F Now, I'm not sure how search engines deal with +A, google considers +A to search on G+ (used to mean "mandatory", now quotes mean that) So the prefix idea might work but it may need to change
- tarblog 11y agoThey're talking about using Ctrl-F. The problem is that when you do that every instance of the word internet also shows up in the search.
- davidddavidson 11y agoThe following regular expression can be used when searching to match "intern" and "internship" (singular and plural): \bintern(ship)?(s)?\b