I like to see - a short description of the company, including url to website - a short description of the culture of the team the position woudl be homed in - a short word salad of the currently implemented technologies the team is currently using (eg: the now, not the aspirational) - a short description of actual job duties and responsibilities, including oncall and/or "we expect lots of late hours" - list of mandatory base requirements for a canidate to posses (residency, location, experience, skills, etc) - list of detailed qualities over and above base that are idea (eg: confg mgmt woudl be base, puppet experience woudl be idea) - information on how to apply
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote: > > [I *think* this is the right list. Arguably, lopsa-profession would > be better, but it appears to be completely defunct, or so the archives > would have me believe. Please redirect me if warranted.] > > I'm the lead sysadmin, network engineer, and occasional HVAC tech at > a small software shop near Boston. We're a combined IT and operations > team of three, and we need to be four, and that means writing a want ad. > > The majority of want ads fall into a few easily sortable > buckets: > > - the large company where everything about hiring is controlled > by HR. The ad features an acre of boilerplate text, legal reassurances > that mean nothing because violating them really would be illegal, and > ends with an invitation to submit a resume at a website which either > asks you to complete a dozen-page profile or mangles the parsing of > your uploaded resume... or both. > > - the startup buzzword factory looking for a SuperNinjaRockStar DevOps > person. > > - the non-technical company which wrote a job description by > summarizing what people think Bob did, and wants somebody just like Bob. > (Sometimes this works out well. Other times, it turns out that > the reason Bob left is that nobody recognized what he was really > doing to hold the company together.) > > - the recruiter who has a list of technological skills that must > be checked off, but no actual understanding of the company or the job. > > Please assume, for the sake of discussion, that we can avoid > most of the above traps. > > What, as an experienced systems administrator, could actually attract > your attention to a job ad? What holds your attention long enough for > you to write a thoughtful cover letter and update your resume? > > Suggestions from this thread are likely to be used in an ad on > sajobs in the near future. > > -dsr- > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- ------------------------------------------- nathan hruby <[email protected]> metaphysically wrinkle-free ------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
