[Foundation-l] HR and Recruiting Feed on Identi.ca and Twitter

[Steven Walling]

I don't think that was constructive criticism. Personally I think that
Foundation staff should be applauded for trying to be more transparent about
hiring, even if you disagree with what they might be experimenting with.

Steven Walling

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:42 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Daniel Phelps <dphelps at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Recently we've been having some internal conversations regarding
> transparency for our hiring, recruiting and contracting.  In efforts to be
> more proactive about sharing this information we're moving to a system of
> tweeting short bursts of announcements.  This will be done in a "bot" style
> voice not unlike the WMF tech feeds.  The idea is that we'll get the
> information out on new hires and new contractors and consultants working
> with us along with new job openings etc.  Basically the streams will recap
> the comings and goings in a short and sweet format.
> >
> > I invite you all to see these data streams -
> http://identi.ca/wikimediaatwork/all or http://twitter.com/wikimediaatwork.
>  Eventually we also hope to find more ways to use this feed for recruiting
> and reaching out to a larger candidate pool and audience.  There will also
> be times where we link the streams or feeds to longer and more detailed blog
> postings.
> >
> > -Daniel
> So you know, all the times people asked to have better systems to
> inform of new hirings such as on wiki pages but get told it would take
> too long to update them, you decide to implement a even more stupid
> and time consuming system in which limited information can be sent
> out.
> -Peachey
>
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