On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 22:11 -0500, Peter McNabb wrote: > One of the intentions of putting up the ads is that they are job > postings. They map 1:1 with real jobs that members of the UUG (many of > whom are in college and looking for future jobs) may be interested in > applying for.
There are already many more useful resources BYU students can turn to to find jobs. If all you want is a generic job or a generic employee, why not just go to a job fair, visit Monster.com, or apply for an internship? What can the UUG do well that others can't? How about a single link to a page explaining to employers how to post jobs to the list. Prepare employers by describing the audience and culture of the UUG. If they want to try their luck posting ASP.Net jobs, let them. Maybe they're looking for people able to help them move to Mono on FreeBSD. By taking the time to target the message, they make themselves much more interesting than a tacky flash ad blindly broadcast to every Web site that'll have them. > We have the ability to select what types of jobs appear. If people are > extremely against showing a job for a java programmer, it's possible > to not list "java" jobs. The hosting company is relatively new and is > still making connections with potential employers. So it's tacky _and_ not very useful? Sweet! > As they continue to develop, we'll have more control over appearance > of job postings for better integration to the UUG site. I'm not > certain, but it may be possible to use plain html in place of flash. It had better be. I don't want tiny, ugly flash ads forced on people that aren't interested. I want a full dedicated page I can search and filter. It's fine to put a link on the front page that interested members can follow to a dedicated page. But a vertical flash banner on the home page just makes the UUG look pathetic. The UUG Web site isn't a personal site, it isn't a startup, and it isn't some toy project by a high school graduate. It's a .edu or .org, not a .com > The club has not collected any money, and we still need to determine > if we even want to do that. Something to consider is directly donating > any generated revenue to an organization of our choice. Why not donate > to the FSF as another way of showing our support for free software? > (https://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom) I could get behind that, but not as it was implemented with an ugly flash ad on the home page. The UUG should be providing resources to members. Maybe that includes helping members prepare for and find internships and employment after graduation. But I think we can better accomplish that with education than ads. The UUG shouldn't be helping some brand new company test its slow loading, tacky flash ad. No matter how many check boxes we can click to help them market to us. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
