"Now Hiring" Sub Forum under General Work Chat

[Jack T. Chance]

I have a simple suggestion: As a Sub Forum of the General Work Chat Forum, we should have a "Now Hiring" Forum in which CS members can discuss retail employers that are hiring: What positions they're looking to fill, what locations those positions are at, and most important of all, WHAT THE COMPANY'S LIKE TO WORK FOR.

I'm thoroughly fed up with my current employer. I've had enough. And at the same time, I'm seriously considering moving out of state to an area my current employer has no locations in. I manage a mattress store. I need to figure out who's a good company to work for in the area I'm looking at moving to, so I know where to apply. It would be nice if there was a forum where I could discuss potential employers, so I can avoid the same problems that are frustrating me at my current job.

Just my suggestion, For What It's Worth.

[Rapscallion]

It's something we've considered before, especially in the current economic climate - a place where people can post adverts for situations vacant and need a job type stuff. There's the whole issue of keeping anonymity and so forth that concerns us. We'll discuss it again.

Rapscallion

[Cookie]

Just had this thought: Maybe all posts in a "Now Hiring" forum are closed threads except to the OP and the Mods, of course, that way people don't respond in thread about the job opportunity. Rules would be that contact information is posted (at least an email address) so that people can contact the company that listed the job outside of CS from their own email address, phone, whatever, rather than end up having their real name associated with their username here. Although, it would need to be understood that you run a higher risk of your username being found out if you post about your new job later. You're much more easily identifiable that way by your new bosses since you're clearly the one that came from the CS forum.

[Jack]

Since we're worried about anonymity, let's make that subforum anonymous-only or guest-post-only. If you can't do it in default vBul config, surely there's some hack or plugin for it.

[EricKei]

Agreed - anonymity would be a major concern. Arguably, the best way to keep things Anon might be to use Incog's suggestion -- Only the Op and Mods may post at all. if anyone from here really did apply, they should NOT mention this site in any way; simply say that they saw a job posting online.

Also, care would have to be taken to make sure that the OP's close the threads once the jobs have been filled (if they know), or else just have threads auto-close and maybe even auto-wipe after a month or so of inactivity. If a user wanted to keep the thread around, they could PM a mod (who had already posted in that thread) and ask them to bump it.