Questions tagged [legacy-stack-overflow-jobs]
This tag is NOT for questions about the new Jobs product introduced in 2024. For questions and issues concerning the former Jobs tab on the main Stack Overflow site, which was fully removed in 2022.
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Search company by technology is broken?
When I search the company by technology, e.g. if I click the button "python"
I was directed to a broken link https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/developer-jobs-using-python
The same with any ...
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Add link to "Sunsetting Jobs & Developer Story" from the 404 page for Jobs
Currently, when visiting old SO Job URLs (e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/jobs), the visitor will be redirected to the 404 page which says:
Page not found
Oh no! We can't find the page you're looking ...
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Fear-free guide to getting started has fear-inducing 404
When new users sign up for Stack Overflow, they get an email with the subject "Your friendly, fear-free guide to getting started". At the bottom it links to various SO services:
The link to ...
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Broken jobs links in various headers/footers [closed]
This link in the footer for the Stack Overflow blog 404s since jobs is no more:
Same with these links in the footer for stackoverflowsolutions.com:
These links in the footer for stackoverflow.co ...
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Job link on tag page 404s
Tags that have jobs associated with them have a "[tag] jobs" link on them:
Since Jobs is no more, this link now 404s. It should be removed.
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The Future of our Jobs Ad slots
Over the course of the next few weeks, you may see some changes to the content in the right-sidebar on Stack Overflow, and I am here to let you know what to expect.
For background, as you probably ...
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How do you export Stack Overflow Developer Story data? [duplicate]
Developer Story is sunsetting on Apr 1, 2022. I'd like to know all the ways to export my data. I realize there's the PDF export, but you lose certain data, like the Pluralsight assessments, for ...
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Sunsetting Jobs & Developer Story [closed]
TL;DR – On March 31, 2022, we will discontinue Stack Overflow Jobs and Developer Story. This includes all job listings, saved searches, applications, messages, recommended job matches, job ads, ...
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What does Stack Overflow Jobs' "Easy Apply" look like to a recruiter?
When sending an application as an email, I know roughly what the recruiter's experience will be using their email application.
In using the "Easy Apply" feature I wonder what the recruiter ...
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How to change name in the messages section? [duplicate]
On StackOverflow jobs, I changed my profile name to "Nav", but when I see the messages inbox section, my full name and email ID is displayed. A recruiter who messaged me, did so by using my ...
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Code comment visible on company pages
It seems that there is a code comment rendered at the end of all company pages, under their jobs section. It says:
// This view is proxied, which strips out the layout, so we need to "re-include&...
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Does "No office location" imply that the company will allow working from anywhere?
Take this example.
Does it mean they'll let one work from anywhere they want?
Or, looked at from the other side, what inputs do company provide when creating these job entries in order to show "...
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Remote jobs without a location restriction (worldwide) [closed]
The 'remote' option on the jobs website is often linked to being within the geographic boundary of a specific country (most often USA, Canada, and UK).
The feature request is to allow searching for ...
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The careers message "Report" button does nothing
I tried to report recruiter spam on Stack Overflow Jobs, but the button doesn't do anything. The Firefox console prints the following error every time I click:
Error: $(...).modal is not a function
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Job messages not displayed [closed]
When I open my personal message box on Stack Overflow I get a blank list, even if I have many messages.
As you can see in the screenshot below, in the dropdown there are two job messages but I cannot ...
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Share tag page in message from company in Jobs [closed]
In Stack Overflow Jobs when sharing a link to a tag such as
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:5675325+[php]
then the last square bracket isn't considered as part of the url
In this case, the ...
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Add industry, company size and role to Jobs RSS Feed
The RSS feed on https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/feed currently returns a XML like this one:
<item>
<guid isPermaLink="false">150823</guid>
<link>https://...
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Responding to old recruiter message caused me to be part of their company [closed]
Yesterday I noticed that I had an old (almost two years) recruiter message in my SO Jobs inbox that I never marked as interested/not interested. So I clicked "not interested".
But apparently ...
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Why would my job search status ever be automatically changed?
I saw this blurb in SO jobs today:
What is the justification for ever automatically changing someone's job search status? It has been a while since I've looked at it, but I'm pretty sure it was set ...
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When replying to messages regarding jobs, will each option provide an opportunity to input a custom message? [closed]
The two (2) available options presented for action on a message regarding employment are both very vague and limited:
I'm Interested - Can I include a custom message with the reply?
I'm Not ...
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Developer Jobs Directory doesn't look good when using dark mode [duplicate]
This page looks bad when using dark mode. (The titles don't have enough contrast.)
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Wrong profile image shown in Jobs
I just happened to see this in Jobs and I was surprised:
This identicon isn’t my profile pic or the image shown under identicon if I go to edit my profile (more context on my choice of profile image ...
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"Developer Jobs Directory": Headings have bad contrast when using dark mode
The headings in the Developer Jobs Directory have bad contrast when using dark mode:
This problem seems to have existed since dark mode was introduced, as it can also be seen in this capture of the ...
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Add option to filter felon friendly employers to promote equal opportunity
While looking around on Linkedin, I noticed that last year they rolled out a feature called the Fair Chance job filter. This feature, in their words, will "help job-seekers easily identify ...
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How do small companies post jobs on Stack Overflow?
My company would love to post open jobs on Stack Overflow. We're currently about 750 people. When I try to open an account on Stack Overflow Talent, I get a canned response saying:
"...
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UI Bug in Jobs page popover (transform)?
When I first open the Jobs page there is a popover ("Follow your favorite companies") but I can't read it because of transform: translate(-43px, -40px); on it. I recheck the page on a ...
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"Jobs" needs an interface to exchange CV with 3rd party services - or is there any?
Unfortunately, there are many companies who link to some external application-flow on Jobs and there doesn't seem to be any rule for them, like the similar "no link-only answers" would ...
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Unable to archive some messages
There are 3 old messages in my jobs inbox that I am unable to archive. No matter how many times I do it, individually or in bulk, they always reappear on refresh.
When I look at the Network tab, this ...
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Accidentally mislabeled a job; how to fix it?
I posted an SRE job on Stack Overflow, but mislabeled it by putting a field named "Role" and filling it as "system administrator".
The job is for a site reliability engineer and ...
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Make suggestions in tech selector more neutral [closed]
I am wondering if we can change the suggestions in the input boxes to not point at specific programming languages somehow.
Right now, it reads like a value judgement to me. I read this as HTML and C# ...
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