Again: We am not "padding" anything. The site exists since 2012, and we keep old job listings around, as an archive and to help find interesting potential employers that may have jobs apart of what is listed. There's an open ticket about "fading them out" a little to make it even more obvious. There's plenty of recent jobs listed, so your point about "only ever seeing jobs that no longer accept applications" is moot. Also, subscribe to the RSS feed (or Twitter/Facebook), and "all you will ever see will be fresh, open positions".It's like arguing that a news site should delete yesterday's news instead of keeping an archive, because "you're only interested in today".
As for your "sustainability" and "career building", I disagree there too, but that's for a different conversation.
jarofgreen|9 years ago
As someone who recently was job hunting and come across another site with this problem: absolutely do this. You get the bonus of instantly showing the user which jobs are current, so they don't notice only after wasting time and then jump to the assumption the site is dead. You show users that you take the up-to-dateness of the data seriously. And lastly you get to keep the archive around, which I agree with you is a good thing to do.
> There's plenty of recent jobs listed, so your point about "only ever seeing jobs that no longer accept applications" is moot.
Not for me there's not. I'm in the UK and it's all 2 years old.
(Good idea tho, hope it continues well!)
mo|9 years ago