[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/16/18 10:30 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/16/2018 10:06 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 12/16/18 8:33 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/16/2018 8:01 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>                                                              But,
>>>> as previously stated, people like Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Raytheon,
>>>> General Dynamics and McDonnel-DOuglas do not use Monster or Indeed
>>>> to hire.
>>>
>>> Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Raytheon and General Dynamics jobs are on 
>>> Indeed!
>>
>> I know they are.  You obviously didn't read what I said before.
>> They get their "vacancies" by web scraping.  I even posted the
>> blurb from Lockheed-Martin that specifically stated they do not
>> use those sites and you must apply thru their own career page.
> 
> But when the jobs are there then the job site gives a valid
> view of what they are looking for.
> 
> How the jobs ads ended up there and where applicants has to apply
> is irrelevant for estimating demand.
>

No, it doesn't.  The jobs are frequently out of date and only
reflect a small portion of what the company is actually looking
for.  They only gfet what they get by web scrapping.  If their
parameters don's scrape Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, Ada, etc. their
numbers will reflect a mistaken notion of the demand for those
languages.



> 
>>> And McDonnel-Douglas got bought by Boeing in 1997.
>>
>> Yes, but they still show up, especially on sites like Indeed,
>> ZipRecruiter, CareerBuilders, etc.  Guess they didn't get the memo.
> 
> I got no hits on Indeed.
> 

Funny, I just used Google and it found them.  Of course, being
Google, they may have made them up.  Have you ever  noticed that
no matter what you search for with Google you will get a listing
at the bottom of your page saying eBay has it?  :-)

bill