[Info-vax] VMS Developer Job

[seasoned_geek]

On Monday, May 11, 2015 at 9:19:19 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2015-05-11, Bill Gunshannon <bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu> wrote:
> > In article <min73h$5mm$1 at dont-email.me>,
> > 	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> >> On 2015-05-10, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Here's another few (4 apparently) (In Australia)
> >>>
> >>> http://www.seek.com.au/job/28613744?pos=1&type=standard
> >>> http://www.seek.com.au/job/28612535?pos=2&type=standard
> >> 
> >> Around here it seems to be all media/web design type companies who
> >> have open IT positions. :-(
> >
> > I don't know how it works in OZ but over here all those "job" sites
> > really do is scrape the web looking for jobs posted in other places
> > that they can claim are there's.  (I know some primaries who flat
> > out state on their HR pages that application that come thru third
> > parties will not be considered.  Only applications to their HR.)
> >
> 
> Here in the UK, I see the same job showing up in several places, but
> I don't know if it's one website scraping the other or if the employer
> is posting the job in several places. Given some of the places I am
> seeing the same job show up, I tend to think it's the latter.
> 
> What's annoying however is that sometimes people are cancelling the
> listing for a job and then listing it again thereby making it show up
> on the new jobs list even though it's the same open position you looked
> at a week or two ago...
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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Most posters on Dice automatically "repost" or "update" all open positions multiple times per day. They do this to continually show up as "new" because __nobody__ is going to apply for a position which has been open for 6+ months.