Same story at PS:One.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Nathaniel Bezanson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myself@telcodata.us">myself@telcodata.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On the i3detroit-public list, we get occasional job postings (and plenty<br>
of job-related spam that hits the mod queue), and that's tacitly<br>
encouraged. For a while, there was enough such traffic that people<br>
discussed forking it off into its own list. But that's died down, and<br>
really, very little came of it in the first place.<br>
<br>
All the actual job-getting I can think of (ten individuals, off the top of<br>
my head) has happened through in-person and word-of-mouth contact at the<br>
space itself. Email is worth very little, but the actually meeting a<br>
competent person and then finding out they're looking? That makes things<br>
happen.<br>
<br>
The number of i3'ers landing jobs because of such connections has become a<br>
bit of a joke, and last I heard, there was at least one journalist working<br>
on a story about the phenomenon. If anything ever comes of that, I'll<br>
suggest this list as a way to connect with other groups and individuals<br>
who may have anecdotes to share.<br>
<br>
As to the original question about networking? I'm gonna advocate the<br>
in-person approach. If I moved to a new city and wanted a job there, I'd<br>
start by hanging out at the local hackerspace(s) a fair bit, contributing<br>
what I could, and then mentioning that I was looking.<br>
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-Nathaniel-<br>
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> One idea I think we might adopt is to put an Employers link on our webpage<br>
> with information stating that we have a broad talent pool and can connect<br>
> to<br>
> potential employees. Basically allow job postings on our mailing list.<br>
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