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Personally, I would prefer a site without advertising.
Me too, Tom.
I agree with Tom, Todd, Vladimir and Andy. (How long can we keep this up?)
I agree with Tom, Todd, Vladimir, Andy, and David that no advertisements is better than advertisements, but if MO ever has to raise money through ads, I hope it's restricted to ads that would be of genuine value to at least some of the community, and job ads could fit that description.
I agree with Henry ... (stop, David!) In particular, some of the community promotion ads in the SE2.0 model (see M.SE list) are quite inoffensive, though obviously the open source/free software ones aren't going to start paying for airplay.
The Stack Exchange people have actually thought a lot about job ads, and the main Stack Overflow site has an associated site http://careers.stackoverflow.com which in my understanding is really quite good for programmers.
They talked to us a while back about whether such a site would be useful for mathematicians. In my recollection, we basically told them the MathJobs has, for now, nicely solved the problem for academic jobs, but that there was still a significant problem matching jobs postings outside academia with interested mathematicians considering leaving academia. Maybe someday we can have careers.mathoverflow.net? I can imagine it being a really useful thing; far too many mathematics students have trouble identifying options outside academia.
Scott's suggestion of careers.mathoverflow.net would have another advantage: it would also provide a natural home for the questions about careers that pop up occasionally, on whose suitability for MO the community seems quite divided.
Perhaps it's worth adding that mathjobs.org could also list non-academic jobs, if it wanted. The equivalent in the UK, jobs.ac.uk (which covers all subjects), frequently carries non-academic jobs that require a PhD. You can apply filters so that, for example, you only see academic mathematics jobs, or only see non-academic mathematics jobs.
it would also provide a natural home for the questions about careers that pop up occasionally, on whose suitability for MO the community seems quite divided.
I would be more in favor of that than discussing such questions on MO, where academic mathematicians wind up offering advice on questions about careers outside of academic mathematics.
@Tom and Todd: If we mimic Stack Overflow, careers wouldn't be a separate Q&A site. It would be a place where people could input/upload their CVs (and tie them to their MO accounts), and where employers could browse the list of CVs. I don't think a MO careers Q&A site would be useful.
For what it's worth, mathjobs.org already does list some non-academic jobs, although they are a small minority of the listings, and I suspect a rather non-representative sampling of non-academic job opportunities.
I agree with Henry and Scott. I definitely don't think that well-done career "advertising" should be a deal breaker, and although I'm conservative enough that I'd prefer we not experiment with something like that, I'm also quite willing to believe that it might end up being a good thing.
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