I agree. While I applaud and understand the desire to create a revenue stream, as a hiring manager I know that sometimes corporate budgets simply don't allow for (targeted) paid placements. As such I believe there will always be a need for free job postings and it'll be a real shame to loose this great channel. (Hopefully the community won't also loose a significant amount of participation due to the loss of job posts.)
Perhaps a compromise solution might work? Maybe a model such as the typical - free "standard" posts and paid "premium" posts - style approach? Offhand I don't know what the differences should be, but would the IxDA Board of Directors to open to such considering something like that?
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Mike Starr <mike@writestarr.com> wrote:
While I'm a technical writer with UX experience rather than a UX professional, I've seen this sort of thing before. The Society for Technical Communication (http://www.stc.org/) moved from a free model to a paid model similar to the one shown here. The number of job listings posted to the website declined immediately from a steady stream to a trickle. Right now, the IXDA mailing list presents a large number of job openings but I'm guessing the same thing will happen as happened with STC. <sigh>
(((Ple