On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 12:20:53 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 12:56, Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Steven D'Aprano <> > > wrote: > >> On Tue, 17 May 2016 09:07 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> > >>> I'm not overly bothered by the use of GMail for a business address, > >> > >> It's 2016. Using a gmail address for your business (unless you're a really > >> small business, like a sole trader or something) is equivalent to a postal > >> address of "Leave mail with the lady in the milk bar on the corner". > >> > >> It's not hard to run your own mail server. *I* can do it. At the very > >> least, > >> register a domain and tell Gmail to use that, and *pretend* you're running > >> your own mail server. > > > > And a lot of job postings do come from that sort of really small > > business, trying to expand a bit. Plus, some of them want some > > anonymity (why, I don't know, but there are plenty of jobs posted > > without too much in the way of company details) > > That probably means the job advert is coming from a recruiter. They don't > want > people to contact the company directly, and they want to hide the fact that > they are a recruiter. > > Personally, I think that advertising a job position without saying who you > are, > what you do, and offering at least an indicative salary range, are > *astonishingly* rude (to say nothing of counter-productive). If I see a job > for > (let's say) Blackwater[1], paying $900,000 a year, then I know that (1) I > don't > want to work for them, and (2) even if I did, I wouldn't be qualified; so I > don't waste either my time or theirs applying. But when I see a job for some > unnamed company with an unknown salary doing something often couched in the > vaguest possible terms, I end up wasting everyone's time.
+1 I have had recruiters from within Company A bug me about their company, but when I asked about a salary range, they said that they wouldn't discuss that until a later stage but that I would be happy with it. How would they know? They don't know what I make or what would make me happy! I ignored them after that even though I was interested in working for Company A. They do a lot of weird things. Frankly the ones that look like they spam everyone provide more information than the more professional recruiters. - Mike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
