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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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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Careers Unificintegration: Jobs on Stack Overflow [closed]
TL;DR:
We're rolling out Jobs on Stack Overflow.
Big thanks to the folks who tested early and reported bugs here on Meta Stack Overflow with the jobs tag - keep up the good work!
<3
In 2009 Stack ...
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Stack Overflow - Serving Programmers Even Better [closed]
In 2008, we set out to solve a problem that plagued every programmer in the world: the lack of an information resource that was free, vetted and maintained by programmers, where the best information ...
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SO careers should stop accepting business from predatory employers [closed]
There is strong evidence that Crossover is an employer most of us would not touch with a pole. It's the pointy-haired boss, on steroids and with nuclear weapons. Read the stuff (e.g. on Quora), ...
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Allow users to hide individual job listings
I've been checking out the Careers Unificintegration and so far it seems quite nice. One problem, however, is that there is no way to remove jobs that have been previously evaluated to be a poor fit. ...
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On Jobs, how do I sort by most recent matches?
It appears that I have two options to filters jobs: Matches and Most Recent.
If I select "Most Recent", it sort mostly by the newest first. The very first posting is not the most recent, but it is ...
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Why is "looking for a job" so obsessed with London?
I live in a reasonably rural part of North Wales. I like living where I live it's nice and quiet and I get to climb mountains
The one place I would hate to live is London. Many people love the place, ...
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Provide option to filter jobs by natural languages
I got an email notification about this job, opened it and I was like what?
I don't know German (location and Google says so). While I'm open to jobs in foreign countries matching my skills, I not ...
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Is editing job descriptions broken?
I'm trying to update my jobs descriptions as I updated my resume, but when I try to edit, even though I change the text in the Responsibilities field, it doesn't update when I click Save. In fact the ...
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Didn't get the job (or did I?!?!) but in limbo - what are you guys doing to proactively move employers to provide feedback? [closed]
Much needed feature request, especially for the job seekers. Scenario: you've applied for a job via the jobs link on SO. You wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and continue waiting. You search for ...
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The 'Crossover' job ads have a funny smell
There's something about Crossover which comes across as scammy, or proto-scammy. I've read around a bit and the answers out there on the interwebs don't reassure me much.
My question is: does the ...
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Use location mentioned in profile for job adverts [closed]
I'd like this feature to be present so the job ads that come up in SO are actually relevant to me and not just wasting my screen space.
It's great that SO jobs uses the IP address to provide jobs in ...
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Add reasoning on what the job reactions mean
What do the following job reactions mean?
The first three are obvious. What does it mean if I give a job a unicorn?
What about crying hysterically. And doesn't :( mean thumbs down?
This is very ...
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Job: offer the ability to suppress companies and recruiters
For various reasons, I may not want to see ads from a particular company. Examples are
I've worked there before and they have a no-rehire policy
I work there now
I already interviewed there.
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Why am I seeing a German job advert?
Today I saw a German job advertisement on the Stack Overflow home page. I happen to speak German and live reasonably close to Germany (only 200km or so), but have no indications on my computer that I ...
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