Network Engineer position available at Smartlinx 3 Ltd Upper Hutt
we currently have a Network Engineer position available at Smartlinx 3 Ltd in Upper Hutt. http://smartlinx3.co.nz/ For further information on this position please contact David Haynes, Managing Director, Smartlinx 3 Ltd david.haynes (AT) smartlinx3.co.nz Phone/FAX +64 4 939 1444 Cheers Adrian Smith
Is this an appropriate use of the list? This is a serious question - we have positions come available from time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members. Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us. Gerard Adrian Smith wrote:
we currently have a Network Engineer position available at Smartlinx 3 Ltd in Upper Hutt. http://smartlinx3.co.nz/
For further information on this position please contact
David Haynes, Managing Director, Smartlinx 3 Ltd david.haynes (AT) smartlinx3.co.nz Phone/FAX +64 4 939 1444
Cheers Adrian Smith
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Gerard Creamer wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the list?
This is a serious question - we have positions come available from time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members.
Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us.
Gerard
With all the "please contact me off list" posts and the people that seem to get precious about classifying these posts as "valid mailing list traffic" I'd be guessing that the answer to this question is a resounding "yes !" after all, this is supposed to be a generic contact list right ? and recruitment is simply another way of getting in contact with people that you want to do a job. I say go hard, this is a great forum for findign new recrits and contacting people that you would normally have to call a helpdesk or something for. -- Steve.
I don't mind seeing recruitment messages, but I quit off the PHPUG mailing list last week because of them. The recruitment attempts were all more or less asking for a seasoned professional and offering to pay a gas station wage. Mentioning the imbalance caused several members to wet their pants and cry foul; saying that we don't want to offend the sweatshop employers who were trolling the list. Ironically the job in question was to build a spambot, and the loudest crybaby was a known google spammer who turned out to have passed along the list details to the spambot employer in the first place. You can see how it gets ugly quick. I don't think job posts to this list are appropriate. Why not start a separate IT job list? Steve Phillips wrote:
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the list?
This is a serious question - we have positions come available from time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members.
Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us.
Gerard
With all the "please contact me off list" posts and the people that seem to get precious about classifying these posts as "valid mailing list traffic" I'd be guessing that the answer to this question is a resounding "yes !" after all, this is supposed to be a generic contact list right ? and recruitment is simply another way of getting in contact with people that you want to do a job.
I say go hard, this is a great forum for findign new recrits and contacting people that you would normally have to call a helpdesk or something for.
Whilst I'm not keen to see the list denigrate into a jobs list, I'd note that this list has been used in the past by the list moderators for exactly that. Many other folks have also done it from time to time with no complaint. So the cat is out of the bag so to speak. So, based on the precedent set by the moderators - which seems to be "advertising jobs is ok", the question is now, what sort of jobs are on topic. My take is this: "Jobs involving network operations, advertised by network operators themselves" I think to do anything less would be extremely unfair to Smartlinx and fairly hypocritical of the moderators to decide anything less. jamie On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:17 +1200, Justin Cook wrote:
I don't mind seeing recruitment messages, but I quit off the PHPUG mailing list last week because of them. The recruitment attempts were all more or less asking for a seasoned professional and offering to pay a gas station wage. Mentioning the imbalance caused several members to wet their pants and cry foul; saying that we don't want to offend the sweatshop employers who were trolling the list. Ironically the job in question was to build a spambot, and the loudest crybaby was a known google spammer who turned out to have passed along the list details to the spambot employer in the first place. You can see how it gets ugly quick.
I don't think job posts to this list are appropriate. Why not start a separate IT job list?
Steve Phillips wrote:
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the list?
This is a serious question - we have positions come available from time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members.
Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us.
Gerard
With all the "please contact me off list" posts and the people that seem to get precious about classifying these posts as "valid mailing list traffic" I'd be guessing that the answer to this question is a resounding "yes !" after all, this is supposed to be a generic contact list right ? and recruitment is simply another way of getting in contact with people that you want to do a job.
I say go hard, this is a great forum for findign new recrits and contacting people that you would normally have to call a helpdesk or something for.
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Jamie does raise an interesting point. I have been guilty of posting
situations vacant adverts to this list in the past, for goverance roles
within InternetNZ - which are definitely not network operations roles, but
responses from this list have sometimes been more useful than traditional
advertising, I guess because many on the list know people who would have
suitable skills and expertise and knowledge of the "InternetNZ" way...
But I think the original posting expressed some concern that it might end up
luring staff away from his operation. My guess here is that if people are
scanning the sits vacants, they are already not happy in their current role
and looking to move on regardless, so the upshot is its best for all
parties.
Further, at least I qualify the adverts I place with the proviso that I will
provide beer to those offended by the ads, and I have some debts to pay in
Dunedin next year...
Keith Davidson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie Baddeley"
Whilst I'm not keen to see the list denigrate into a jobs list, I'd note that this list has been used in the past by the list moderators for exactly that. Many other folks have also done it from time to time with no complaint.
So the cat is out of the bag so to speak. So, based on the precedent set by the moderators - which seems to be "advertising jobs is ok", the question is now, what sort of jobs are on topic.
My take is this:
"Jobs involving network operations, advertised by network operators themselves"
I think to do anything less would be extremely unfair to Smartlinx and fairly hypocritical of the moderators to decide anything less.
jamie
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:17 +1200, Justin Cook wrote:
I don't mind seeing recruitment messages, but I quit off the PHPUG mailing list last week because of them. The recruitment attempts were all more or less asking for a seasoned professional and offering to pay a gas station wage. Mentioning the imbalance caused several members to wet their pants and cry foul; saying that we don't want to offend the sweatshop employers who were trolling the list. Ironically the job in question was to build a spambot, and the loudest crybaby was a known google spammer who turned out to have passed along the list details to the spambot employer in the first place. You can see how it gets ugly quick.
I don't think job posts to this list are appropriate. Why not start a separate IT job list?
Steve Phillips wrote:
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the list?
This is a serious question - we have positions come available from time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members.
Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us.
Gerard
With all the "please contact me off list" posts and the people that seem to get precious about classifying these posts as "valid mailing list traffic" I'd be guessing that the answer to this question is a resounding "yes !" after all, this is supposed to be a generic contact list right ? and recruitment is simply another way of getting in contact with people that you want to do a job.
I say go hard, this is a great forum for findign new recrits and contacting people that you would normally have to call a helpdesk or something for.
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Whilst I'm not keen to see the list denigrate into a jobs list, I'd note that this list has been used in the past by the list moderators for exactly that. Many other folks have also done it from time to time with no complaint.
So the cat is out of the bag so to speak. So, based on the precedent set by the moderators - which seems to be "advertising jobs is ok", the question is now, what sort of jobs are on topic.
My take is this:
"Jobs involving network operations, advertised by network operators themselves"
I think to do anything less would be extremely unfair to Smartlinx and fairly hypocritical of the moderators to decide anything less.
jamie
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:17 +1200, Justin Cook wrote:
I don't mind seeing recruitment messages, but I quit off the PHPUG mailing list last week because of them. The recruitment attempts were all more or less asking for a seasoned professional and offering to
Perhaps the powers that be and the list in general need to come up with
some granular list guidelines on what is / isn't appropriate to post to
this list, and make it available for all to see. It seems that most of
the traffic of this list at times is what is and isn't appropriate.
And I don't have a problem with Job adds.
2c
--Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Davidson [mailto:keith(a)wise.net.nz]
Sent: Monday, 28 May 2007 8:30 p.m.
To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz
Subject: Re: [nznog] Network Engineer position available at
Smartlinx3Ltd Upper Hutt
Jamie does raise an interesting point. I have been guilty of posting
situations vacant adverts to this list in the past, for goverance roles
within InternetNZ - which are definitely not network operations roles,
but
responses from this list have sometimes been more useful than
traditional
advertising, I guess because many on the list know people who would have
suitable skills and expertise and knowledge of the "InternetNZ" way...
But I think the original posting expressed some concern that it might
end up
luring staff away from his operation. My guess here is that if people
are
scanning the sits vacants, they are already not happy in their current
role
and looking to move on regardless, so the upshot is its best for all
parties.
Further, at least I qualify the adverts I place with the proviso that I
will
provide beer to those offended by the ads, and I have some debts to pay
in
Dunedin next year...
Keith Davidson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie Baddeley"
a gas station wage. Mentioning the imbalance caused several members to wet their pants and cry foul; saying that we don't want to offend the sweatshop employers who were trolling the list. Ironically the job in question was to build a spambot, and the loudest crybaby was a known google spammer who turned out to have passed along the list details to the spambot employer in the first place. You can see how it gets ugly
quick.
I don't think job posts to this list are appropriate. Why not start a separate IT job list?
Steve Phillips wrote:
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the list?
This is a serious question - we have positions come available from
time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members.
Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us.
Gerard
With all the "please contact me off list" posts and the people that
seem to get precious about classifying these posts as "valid mailing list traffic" I'd be guessing that the answer to this question is a resounding "yes !" after all, this is supposed to be a generic contact list right ? and recruitment is simply another way of getting in contact with people that you want to do a job.
I say go hard, this is a great forum for findign new recrits and contacting people that you would normally have to call a helpdesk or something for.
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Agreed, theres far too much moaning about inappropriate posts.
d.
On 28/05/07, Russell Tester
Perhaps the powers that be and the list in general need to come up with some granular list guidelines on what is / isn't appropriate to post to this list, and make it available for all to see. It seems that most of the traffic of this list at times is what is and isn't appropriate.
And I don't have a problem with Job adds.
2c --Russ
-----Original Message----- From: Keith Davidson [mailto:keith(a)wise.net.nz] Sent: Monday, 28 May 2007 8:30 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Network Engineer position available at Smartlinx3Ltd Upper Hutt
Jamie does raise an interesting point. I have been guilty of posting situations vacant adverts to this list in the past, for goverance roles within InternetNZ - which are definitely not network operations roles, but responses from this list have sometimes been more useful than traditional advertising, I guess because many on the list know people who would have
suitable skills and expertise and knowledge of the "InternetNZ" way...
But I think the original posting expressed some concern that it might end up luring staff away from his operation. My guess here is that if people are scanning the sits vacants, they are already not happy in their current role and looking to move on regardless, so the upshot is its best for all parties.
Further, at least I qualify the adverts I place with the proviso that I will provide beer to those offended by the ads, and I have some debts to pay in Dunedin next year...
Keith Davidson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Baddeley"
To: Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] Network Engineer position available at Smartlinx 3Ltd Upper Hutt Whilst I'm not keen to see the list denigrate into a jobs list, I'd note that this list has been used in the past by the list moderators for exactly that. Many other folks have also done it from time to time with no complaint.
So the cat is out of the bag so to speak. So, based on the precedent set by the moderators - which seems to be "advertising jobs is ok", the question is now, what sort of jobs are on topic.
My take is this:
"Jobs involving network operations, advertised by network operators themselves"
I think to do anything less would be extremely unfair to Smartlinx and fairly hypocritical of the moderators to decide anything less.
jamie
I don't mind seeing recruitment messages, but I quit off the PHPUG mailing list last week because of them. The recruitment attempts were all more or less asking for a seasoned professional and offering to
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:17 +1200, Justin Cook wrote: pay
a gas station wage. Mentioning the imbalance caused several members to wet their pants and cry foul; saying that we don't want to offend the sweatshop employers who were trolling the list. Ironically the job in question was to build a spambot, and the loudest crybaby was a known google spammer who turned out to have passed along the list details to the spambot employer in the first place. You can see how it gets ugly
quick.
I don't think job posts to this list are appropriate. Why not start a separate IT job list?
Steve Phillips wrote:
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the list?
This is a serious question - we have positions come available from
time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members.
Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us.
Gerard
With all the "please contact me off list" posts and the people that
seem to get precious about classifying these posts as "valid mailing list traffic" I'd be guessing that the answer to this question is a resounding "yes !" after all, this is supposed to be a generic contact list right ? and recruitment is simply another way of getting in contact with people that you want to do a job.
I say go hard, this is a great forum for findign new recrits and contacting people that you would normally have to call a helpdesk or something for.
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Are we having a meta-meta conversation? On 28/05/2007, at 9:59 PM, Daniel Appleton wrote:
Agreed, theres far too much moaning about inappropriate posts.
d.
On 28/05/07, Russell Tester
wrote: Perhaps the powers that be and the list in general need to come up with some granular list guidelines on what is / isn't appropriate to post to this list, and make it available for all to see. It seems that most of the traffic of this list at times is what is and isn't appropriate. And I don't have a problem with Job adds.
2c --Russ
-----Original Message----- From: Keith Davidson [mailto:keith(a)wise.net.nz] Sent: Monday, 28 May 2007 8:30 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Network Engineer position available at Smartlinx3Ltd Upper Hutt
Jamie does raise an interesting point. I have been guilty of posting situations vacant adverts to this list in the past, for goverance roles within InternetNZ - which are definitely not network operations roles, but responses from this list have sometimes been more useful than traditional advertising, I guess because many on the list know people who would have
suitable skills and expertise and knowledge of the "InternetNZ" way...
But I think the original posting expressed some concern that it might end up luring staff away from his operation. My guess here is that if people are scanning the sits vacants, they are already not happy in their current role and looking to move on regardless, so the upshot is its best for all parties.
Further, at least I qualify the adverts I place with the proviso that I will provide beer to those offended by the ads, and I have some debts to pay in Dunedin next year...
Keith Davidson
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamie Baddeley"
To: Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [nznog] Network Engineer position available at Smartlinx 3Ltd Upper Hutt Whilst I'm not keen to see the list denigrate into a jobs list, I'd note that this list has been used in the past by the list moderators for exactly that. Many other folks have also done it from time to time with no complaint.
So the cat is out of the bag so to speak. So, based on the precedent set by the moderators - which seems to be "advertising jobs is ok", the question is now, what sort of jobs are on topic.
My take is this:
"Jobs involving network operations, advertised by network operators themselves"
I think to do anything less would be extremely unfair to Smartlinx and fairly hypocritical of the moderators to decide anything less.
jamie
I don't mind seeing recruitment messages, but I quit off the PHPUG mailing list last week because of them. The recruitment attempts were all more or less asking for a seasoned professional and offering to
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 17:17 +1200, Justin Cook wrote: pay
a gas station wage. Mentioning the imbalance caused several members to wet their pants and cry foul; saying that we don't want to offend the sweatshop employers who were trolling the list. Ironically the job in question was to build a spambot, and the loudest crybaby was a known google spammer who turned out to have passed along the list details to the spambot employer in the first place. You can see how it gets ugly
quick.
I don't think job posts to this list are appropriate. Why not start a separate IT job list?
Steve Phillips wrote:
Gerard Creamer wrote:
Is this an appropriate use of the list?
This is a serious question - we have positions come available from
time to time and in the past haven't posted here in the belief that it wouldn't be appropriate, so if it is ok we'll add it to our recruitment strategy for technical network team members.
Personally, as an employer, I think it shouldn't be OK as I like introduce my team members to the list and to encourage them to subscribe, and it seems odd to encourage subscription to a list that I know will deliver inducements to leave us.
Gerard
With all the "please contact me off list" posts and the people that
seem to get precious about classifying these posts as "valid mailing list traffic" I'd be guessing that the answer to this question is a resounding "yes !" after all, this is supposed to be a generic contact list right ? and recruitment is simply another way of getting in contact with people that you want to do a job.
I say go hard, this is a great forum for findign new recrits and contacting people that you would normally have to call a helpdesk or something for.
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Yep. This thread should end. Nathan Ward wrote:
Are we having a meta-meta conversation?
On 28/05/2007, at 9:59 PM, Daniel Appleton wrote:
Agreed, theres far too much moaning about inappropriate posts.
d.
Hi Folks,
I think this is a good time for me to pitch in my 2c (in agreement with
Russell) to mention that I think the rules for a mailing list should evolve
as per what the participants on the list want, and indeed what is commonly
happening on the list. I don't think there has been much movement in the
official 'rules' for nznog recently as for the most part we're a pretty
self-regulating lot.
Most recently I find there are a lot of people posting 'me too', 'this isn't
appropriate!' and 'this should stop' type posts. This sort of stuff should
really get taken off list and sent directly to whoever is the percieved
culprit and/or one of the list moderators, and indeed this is noted in the
rules already. From looking at the above few posts, and the lack of
complaints to any prior job postings, I think it's fair to say that not many
people have a problem with job listings here. So long as it's all civil,
does there really need to be an official amendment to the rules, if it's not
causing a problem?
Moaning about what is and isn't appropriate really just drives up the noise
level on the list making it less useful to everyone. Instead, maybe you
should start posting something constructive about what you believe to be the
barriers to IPV6 adoption in NZ, or what neat network monitoring software
you've just written and are providing to the world for free.
So, to get this list back on track, I'd love to come back to NZ in December
and see some really nice unbundled ADSL2+ services with REAL IPv6
connectivity, but I think at the moment the problem with that is the
consumer grade CPE equipment just won't handle it. Maybe the ISPs who are
buying bulk CPE stock should really be demanding better IPv6 support.
Mucking around with obscure telnet commands just to get your IPv6 tunnel
working isn't the way to get IPv6 adopted quicker.
As far as actual useful contributions, I've updated my data at
http://jedi.school.nz/nzdg.html with the most recent data supplied by the
DNC. And yes, I fixed those awful colours on the graphs :)
Cheers,
Blair
On 5/28/07, Gerard Creamer
Yep. This thread should end.
Nathan Ward wrote:
Are we having a meta-meta conversation?
On 28/05/2007, at 9:59 PM, Daniel Appleton wrote:
Agreed, theres far too much moaning about inappropriate posts.
d.
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