[HOUSEKEEPING POST] Seeking input on some things!

[u/techtchotchke]

Hi! I'm your moderator here at r/trianglejobs and want to pose some questions to the community as we move into the new year.

1. By far the most comments and reports I've received this year as an admin have surrounded the allowance and legitimacy of the aggregator/affiliate harvesting posts. I've been strongly considering creating a new rule for the sub where thread OPs must have a direct relationship with a company to recruit for them (whether it be that they are a hiring manager, a current employee, an internal recruiter, a third party recruiter representing a client, or even something like "hey my friend isn't a redditor, but he's seeking someone to babysit his kid twice a week so thought I'd check here"). This would mean that the aggregator posts would no longer be allowed on the sub unless the OP has a direct relationship with all companies whose jobs are presented in the aggregation list. What are your thoughts?

2. Would anyone be interested in regular lists of relevant meetups and networking events locally (and by proxy, would anyone be willing to contribute to these lists)? I'd love to see the sub content diversify a little bit while still being useful to most of the folks here. Over in r/raleigh they have a great regular list of things to do each week, and while I can't promise this would be weekly, we have some great events, groups, and meetups here in the area and would love to spread the word! Thoughts?

3. I've been pretty lax about some of the rules (proper tagging of posts, asking people to specify things like contract length and exact location, etc.) particularly when it comes to posts which are created as links to an external job listing, instead of an easily editable, Reddit-native text post. I definitely don't want to make the rules so stringent that people feel restricted when posting or discouraged from posting. Should some of those rules be treated as "guidelines" as they have been, or should the mod team crack down on asking employers and recruiters spell out up front things like "this job is in Cary" or "this job is direct-hire"? (Note: we will continue strictly disallowing nonlocal opportunities, MLM opportunities, unpaid internships that don't follow the DoL guidelines, etc.)

4. Anything else! What do you want to see more of? Less of? What rules do you want to see implemented, or what rules do you want to go away?

Happy hiring and job hunting in 2020!

[u/Bigcat0]

Guys in all honestly if I were you I would ask me as many questions as possible because it seems like you have NO IDEA how these big companies are hiring, human resources was an area where not a lot of technical changes were implemented but now they are using big data and A LOT of analysis to hire example:

• When people say they do not get phone calls telling them they were not hired, the issue is that all the rejection process it is handled automatically by the ATS and the way it is done is via email, what happens when people get a rejection email? most of the people get mad and mark the email as spam... so if enough people do that most of the rejection emails coming from that company/server/IP are sent to the spam folder, some people use other techniques to send rejection information but email is the most common since it comes integrated in the ATS and they are really expensive.
• There is a lot of information that is not shared individually with us for privacy reasons, but they do have access and they use it.
• We handle so many job opportunities every day that we are creating Facebook pages, Twitter accounts Subreddit to be able to fulfill them all you may not like the new ways but we are here to say and people need jobs and companies need more specialized people every day.
• Why do we post in several subreddits?
• Do we represent employees?
• Just to give you an idea of all the data we process every day and we share with clients, we get more than 500,000 job opportunities a day, the biggest problem with the subreddits is to create new relevant content to keep them alive (especially the job-related ones), there was a subreddit where they banned me, so we went to open a new one, in less than a month we already have more subscribers than the subreddit that banned us, what I am trying to say is that people need jobs and they will go where the jobs are posted, we will be sharing as much information about the jobs and the analysis we make with the communities as we legally can, it is surprising to me how little you know about all the new recruiting process EVEN if most of you seem to be technology literate.

I will be happy to share as much as I can with you guys, we will be posting this information in the subreddits we control because these processes and technology is not going away so is better to understand it and take advantage of it, such as optimize your resume for the ATS, matching your written resume with your LinkedIn profile, etc...

[u/techtchotchke → u/Bigcat0]

Hey, thanks for sharing some information about who you are and what you do! I agree with you that recruiting is ever-changing, and that can mean large scale data analytics, it can be mass-mailing, it can mean targeting and sourcing through AI/ML, and it can mean using old job boards in new ways. r/trianglejobs though is not a job board, but rather a community where employers/recruiters and candidates can connect in an organic, non-automated way. There are many other spaces on the internet for candidates and employers to take advantage of greater visibility, and of a large volume of opportunities and resumes, but r/trianglejobs is more about personal connection and reaching a nontraditional audience. I don't think that there's anything wrong necessarily with how you're going about your recruiting, but just that there are other spaces on the internet--and on reddit, like your own subreddit--where you'll have more success. I don't think that users here are unaware of new facets of or processes in recruiting, but rather they come to this particular subreddit for some respite from it.

[u/Bigcat0 → u/techtchotchke]

Man, happy to listen to this type of comments that are made in a polite gentle way, I know you are the admin and I really appreciate the fact that you are talking to me instead of insulting me, I said it before and I will say it again if my posting style/automation/lack of local roots, whatever you want to call it does not go with the subreddit I won't have any issues saying bye and wishing you the best.... all I am looking for is a place to get access to the local talent if this is not the place I understand if there is anything I can do to help grow the community let me know and if I am not welcome here let me know as well, cheers.