On Tuesday 17 May 2016 12:56, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> > wrote: >> On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:07 am, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >>> I'm not overly bothered by the use of GMail for a business address, >> >> It's 2016. Using a gmail address for your business (unless you're a really >> small business, like a sole trader or something) is equivalent to a postal >> address of "Leave mail with the lady in the milk bar on the corner". >> >> It's not hard to run your own mail server. *I* can do it. At the very least, >> register a domain and tell Gmail to use that, and *pretend* you're running >> your own mail server. > > And a lot of job postings do come from that sort of really small > business, trying to expand a bit. Plus, some of them want some > anonymity (why, I don't know, but there are plenty of jobs posted > without too much in the way of company details)
That probably means the job advert is coming from a recruiter. They don't want people to contact the company directly, and they want to hide the fact that they are a recruiter. Personally, I think that advertising a job position without saying who you are, what you do, and offering at least an indicative salary range, are *astonishingly* rude (to say nothing of counter-productive). If I see a job for (let's say) Blackwater[1], paying $900,000 a year, then I know that (1) I don't want to work for them, and (2) even if I did, I wouldn't be qualified; so I don't waste either my time or theirs applying. But when I see a job for some unnamed company with an unknown salary doing something often couched in the vaguest possible terms, I end up wasting everyone's time. This is part of the reason why it's not unusual for people end up applying for one or two hundred jobs before even getting a response, let alone an offer. [1] Or whatever they call themselves these days. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list