[Chicago] Status of recruiters on this list

[Ross Heflin]

IMHO: Anyone not willing to provide benefit for a community should not feel
fine about profiting from it.  When you're good to mama, mama's good to you.


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Peter Fein <pete at wearpants.org> wrote:

> I'll second this, it's overly restrictive and just out of keeping with
> how recruiters work. How much is the referral fee?
>
> I've referred close to two dozen recruiters to the list/chipy.org over
> the last year or two and never seen a single post.
>
> It's not clear to me that the community is benefiting from this
> policy: we're trading job opportunities (and in turn, generally higher
> salaries) for beer money. It's a user group, not a drinking club.
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Brian Ray <brianhray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > The resumes gathered would be in their global database, which
> violates
> >>> > our rule about jobs only from Chicago
> >>> I can get behind this, sort of... and by sort of, I mean it should be
> up
> >>> to the person who is looking for work to be aware, notified and in
> control,
> >>> and I think it's ok for Chipy to stipulate that only-Chicago jobs are
> what
> >>> we publicize.   After that, if someone who submits is asked "do you
> want me
> >>> to look broader for you?"  frankly, that's none of Chipy's business
> >>> (inappropriate coupling).    Enlighten me if I'm missing somthing.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> If it is not a Chicago job, it does not belong on our list because it
> works
> >> against our efforts to build a local community.
> >>
> >> Loosing great talent is a huge problem in Chicago. Great schools, some
> good
> >> international resources, diversity (one of the reasons Boeing moved
> here,
> >> btw), many large fortune companies... still a problem with loosing
> talent.
> >> Our competitive sides should kick in here, we should promote Python Jobs
> >> (with good companies who really care, proven by donations and
> involvement)
> >> and good folks to stay in Chicago.
> >
> > Some good points, but the previously mentioned criteria is so
> > restrictive that I can't even remember the last times a recruiter has
> > even gotten a post through. I don't care enough to go back and count
> > and compare to the past, but it feels like they dropped out of nowhere
> > over the last year on the list.
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