Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!mike
From: mike@ists.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
Newsgroups: can.jobs
Subject: Re: This area
Keywords: commercial
Message-ID: <5596@ists.ists.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 90 01:12:25 GMT
References: <1960@oneb.UUCP> <6922@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mike@ists.ists.ca.ists.ca (Mike Clarkson)
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Organization: Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science
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In article <6922@ubc-cs.UUCP> morrison@cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) writes:
>I don't think commercializing UseNet should be an issue in this case.
>Presumably this news group is for people who are interested in hearing
>about job opportunities (esp. in Canada). I don't see what difference
>it makes where the postings come from. It's not as if there's too much
>traffic. Let a thousand head hunters bloom. I imagine the postings for
>RPG programmers will dry up soon enough.

(RPG :-)

I got a very lucrative job through a head-hunter posting on ont.jobs
when I was graduating.  I was looking for a job and *.jobs was a valuable
resource; the headhunter helped me very significantly not only in finding
the job, but in winning the position.

From what I've seen over the net in the last few years, I expect that 
the postings will be both useful and self-policing.  This is a very critical
audience, and any outfit that gets too far out of line will have the
NetWrath brought down on it soon enough.  I have yet to see that happen
as a result of any headhunter postings yet.  As Rick says, the RPG requests
will dry up pretty fast.

Mike.

PS: Unix is a rapdily expanding market, and Unix programmers are a
scarce resource.  A flourishing job market for Unix progammers helps us
all, especially by attracting new students into learning it.  The net
can help here too. 

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Mike Clarkson					mike@ists.ists.ca
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