<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 12 Mar 2012, at 17:05, Ben Aldred wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">In Manchester there is a popular geek event called Geekup. It has a job board which keeps the mailing list free from most job postings and recruiter spam.<div>So a job board may work for this problem although it does take a bit to administer though.</div>
</blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Such a large problem, that Andrew Disley has basically suspended <a href="http://jobboard.geekup.org">http://jobboard.geekup.org</a> and it has been inactive since December. I know Andrew had some plans in this space with a commercial bent, but I honestly think the main reason he stopped it was because it was so much work.</div><div><br></div><div>It is worth noting a valuable policy he had in place was "no agencies". It improved the quality of the jobs on there, made it a little unique resource, and the fact it was free made it very, very attractive to the Manchester IT scene.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, it was so good, I'd consider re-creating it with the same policies but for the whole UK.</div><br><div>
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