Improve question quality by informing askers of expectations in some career related tags

Question

Over here at Programmers, a lot of askers seems to misunderstand site-specific expectations of career related questions, which frequently results in questions closure and deletions.

Propose to help question askers and editors by establishing tag-specific popup (tag-tips) for particularly troublesome career related tags:
job-market, resume, career-transition, career-development

^{(For the sake of completeness, implementation of above request also included career-transition and career-anyotherword tags.)}

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Suggestion for popup content is as follows:

Wait! Career advice is off-topic per the Help Center. Please note that most career advice questions end up being closed for being too broad or impractical; try to make yours a good subjective question.

• Questions about developing one's career can be asked as long as they require the unique insights of a programmer and are specifically about developing one's career as a programmer.
• Please make sure your question has the proper scope. It needs to apply to other programmers besides yourself.
• If your question can also be applied to other job fields, then it does not uniquely apply to software development and is not on-topic here.
• Before asking, review this meta guidance: Why was my question closed or down voted? -> Career or education advice. Make sure your question avoids the problems listed in the guidance.

I hope this measure could help question askers significantly. For detailed discussion of this proposal and some alternatives, refer prior question: Current state of the [job-market]

Related:

• Cutting down on off topic posts

  We are getting pummeled with the same off topic questions over and over again... The point here is to put something directly on the posting page... something more prominent than what we have now might make a dent in the problem.

• Clarification on what is career advice

  tag... seems to be causing more trouble than anything else

I think it is also worth mentioning that in the past, career related tags have been through community cleanups (1, 2) meaning that older content in these tags has already been through some extra scrutiny and generally deemed worth keeping.

Answer 1

Update - these questions are now considered wholly off-topic here, so I've simplified the guidance further:

Wait! Job / Career questions are off-topic here. Yes, there are still a few around; it's a long story.

You can try The Workplace for career development questions.

See also: Why was my career or education advice question closed or down voted?

...also these tags are blacklisted and can no longer be used on new questions.

Answer 2

Nice idea, but that guidance was waaaay too long to fit in a pop-up. I trimmed it down a bit:

Wait! Personal advice is off-topic here. Please ensure that your question…

• …is specific to programming careers. Try The Workplace for other career development questions.
• …can apply to other programmers besides yourself. Avoid asking for open-ended advice.

See also: Why was my career or education advice question closed or down voted?

Check it out:

FWIW, I find that meta answer fairly unhelpful in this context, given most folks aren't likely to click through in the first place. So I tried hard to pack some specific advice into the pop-up itself, leaving the meta link as sort of a veiled threat at the end.