Dear List Members, I am writing in response to the message below, to reiterate my opinion on formats for job announcements. If I received a job announcement in the abbreviated format below, I would not take the time to check the web site to see whether or not the job was in an area where I knew someone to recommend, or in which my university was likely to have students on the job market. If I forwarded the abbreviated announcement to a department head, I doubt if he or she would likely take the time to check either.
People are busy.
If an email doesn't contain enough information to let me know whether I should bother with it, I am not going to do extra work to find out. For example, there are dozens of subfields in electrical engineering. My university does not focus on all the possible subfields of electrical engineering. I think the extra information list members have been including in job announcements here is useful and beneficial, both for candidates and for those who might wish to forward job postings. Carol, Thank you for taking the time to explicitly endorse David's suggestion.