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> "Any thoughts..."

Existing HN hiring threads start with:

> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome."

Searching for "intern" matches postings with "internet", "international", etc. I've seen comments suggesting that a search for "remote" matches "no remote".

Here's a quick fix that uses a prefix, for consideration:

> "Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords +INTERN, +REMOTE, or +VISA if..."

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Is the +VISA keyword meant to indicate that the hiring company will aid candidates in obtaining a visa, or that the candidate must already have the right to work locally?

I always thought it was the former, since otherwise the location implies that the company is looking for people located nearby them. Good point, nevertheless.

Normally it's both, the post will have to specify which case it is for them.

Would INTERNS do? INTERNSHIP is a bit long, and I don't like +INTERN; we like HN threads to consist of plain, good English. It's moot anyway because half the posts would ignore it.

I was thinking about spec compliance. I think the best thing would be to provide these guidelines in the whoishiring post, and then ask that those who follow the guidelines put a unique string, like "metafriendly" or "whoshiringspec" at the end of the post. Then those of us who write mini-apps would know that the post conforms to the format.

> It's moot anyway because half the posts would ignore it.

Clamp down on those. Moderators should moderate.

Half the posters already ignore and won't even mention if they allow (or not) REMOTE. These should be removed by the mods and downvoted by everyone else. You'd only have to do this a few times before people wised up and started putting effort into their posting rather than just copypasting their job posting from all the other job sites out there.

> Clamp down on those. Moderators should moderate.

Our cycles are limited. If we spend time doing that, we won't be able to do other, more valuable things for the community. Plus we'd be miserable, and also you vastly overestimate our power to induce compliance.

I agree, though, that copy/pasting job posts from other places goes against the spirit of these threads.

We all appreciate the work that you do :)

Thanks! I hope I didn't sound too testy there.

We don't need actual moderators. Just say that posts must contain this info (and VISA must be used in this way, or whatever) or the whoishiring thread rules specifically encourage downvotes. Poorly-formatted posts will get to -3 quickly enough.

INTERNSHIP would be a nice fix for the "intern" problem. However I suspect that requiring willingness to schlep or dig into regex might be considered by employers to be a feature rather than a bug :).

I think the point of "who is hiring" posts is to make it easier for people to find your job opening, not harder.

I think the point is to get it in front of the HN-reading demographic, which is larger than the people who read your website and (arguably) higher-quality than your average job board.

[INTERN] [REMOTE] [VISA]

Just search the word intern with a space after it. Remote matching no remote is harder but if we have a remote indicator why would anyone say no remote? If they did it would be a sign you don't want to work for them ...

>Just search the word intern with a space after it.

This isn't a solution because posts say "interns welcome" or stuff like that.

There are things the kids are using nowadays called hashtags that might be more familiar to people? :-) #intern #remote etc.

Or, just have a nice interface on top. Something like http://hnhiring.me/, but with actual features - sorting and filtering, for starters. Maybe even embed that functionality into HN for "who's hiring" posts, instead of relying on a 3rd party website.

Whenever there is a new hn whoishiring I'm trying to add remote companies to a "persistent" list. The problem is filtering. Please use REMOTE, LOCAL, {COUNTRY, CONTINENT, TIMEZONE}-ONLY

Shameless plug: Please send me PRs. https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

Just search for 'intern ' using Ctrl-F

Now, I'm not sure how search engines deal with +A, google considers +A to search on G+ (used to mean "mandatory", now quotes mean that)

So the prefix idea might work but it may need to change

They're talking about using Ctrl-F.

The problem is that when you do that every instance of the word internet also shows up in the search.

The following regular expression can be used when searching to match "intern" and "internship" (singular and plural):

    \bintern(ship)?(s)?\b

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