From: pankaj@pub2.bu.edu (Pankaj Tyagi)
Newsgroups: news.groups,misc.jobs.misc
Subject: Re: RFD:  misc.jobs.offered.entrylevel
Keywords: RFD misc.jobs.offered.entrylevel
Date: 7 Apr 92 01:07:55 GMT
Followup-To: news.groups,misc.jobs.misc
Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Apr2.155534.14962@uunet.uu.net> rc05@gte.com (Ramesh Chandak) writes:
>Call For Discussion:  Creation of misc.jobs.offered.entrylevel
>
>   - a forum for posting job openings for fresh graduates ( entry level )
>   - some interest has been expressed on misc.jobs.offered, misc.jobs.resumes
>
>And so this is a Call For Discussion for the creation of:
>
>        Name: misc.jobs.offered.entrylevel
>     Charter: companies can post job openings for fresh graduates
>  Moderation: Unmoderated.
>	     
>Your comments are solicited:
>
>   1.  should we create it?
>   2.  is the name correct (position in the Usenet hierarchy)?
>   4.  should it be moderated?  (I say not!   Especically not
>       by me!)
>
>
>According to accepted Usenet protocol:
>
>   1.  this CFD is being posted to news.announce.newgroups and 
>       also to any other groups at all related to the proposed topic
>   2.  this call for discussion will initiate 30 (or less) days of 
>       discussion (start: April 1, 1992, end: April 30, 1992) 
>   3.  followup discussion on this topic should be made to the 
>       newsgroup "news.groups".   If you attempt a "followup" with 
>       your news reader, this will likely be automatic.  Additional 
>       discussion can take place informally via mail.
>   4.  if this call for discussion generates postive feedback on 
>       the creation of misc.jobs.offered.entrylevel, I will conduct a vote 
>       for a 21 to 31-day period following the discussion period.
>
>So let the discussions begin!


	The charter is quite valid for there is a need for such a news
group. Major objections to this news group could be...

	1] Not many companies will post on this newsgroup because most
of the posting that appear on misc.jobs.offered are for people with
exp > 0.

	2] The newsgroup will be cluttered with people posting thier
resumes and thus their will be a lot of noise on the newsgroup.

	

	Well I for one think that this [1] should not be a problem.
Granted most of the posting m.j.o. in past have been for positions
that require experience. However that should not mean that people are
not looking for fresh graduates to join their organization. The
channels that are used by large organizations for hiring fresh
graduates are usually the placement offices at various universities.
What m.j.o.e. will provide is another channel for the same. What we
need to do is market this channel as a viable, cheap and a channel
with a large readership than the ones currently used bu several
"University Interaction" departments of the major organization. Please
note that for this we might have to write directly to the managers in
HR departments to increase awareness of this group. A task that
shouldn't be to tough to accomplish. Some of us on the net can take
responsibility to do this for certain section of the industry.

	Regarding [2], an explicit newsgroup policy for strongly
discouraging such posting should be sufficient to keep "noises off".
We already have m.j.r for that.


	How do fellow.netters think about the above.


>-- 
>Ramesh M. Chandak
>rc05@gte.com

Pankaj Tyagi

pankaj@pub2.bu.edu

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