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Re: Now this is a job posting

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"User of AirBnB"

This should be a requirement rather than a bonus. I can't tell you just how helpful it is to hire people who are customers/users of your service. They obviously believe in what you are doing because they use the service and have given the ultimate vote - opening their wallet.

Here's an old blog post where I talked about that with our company http://www.cattlemanagement.com/customer-service-hiring-phil...

Re: Now this is a job posting

#20
post #5

Funny timing. This Friday I talked to the HR person at work and told her I want to hire an IT person - someone to help me manage all the servers, users etc. Based on what I said, she did some research and made a draft job posting. It was a smörgåsbord of every technology I'd heard of in the past 10 years. I edited out a bunch of it but frankly, all I wanted it to say was "1. Must be able to learn anything when needed…

For sysadmin postings, I like to see at least a blurb of "technologies we use," since it allows me to avoid, for example, Microsoft shops.
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