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15 questions linked to/from Offering Solutions to the Career and Jobs Tags
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Current state of the [job-market] [duplicate]
As of now, there are over 87 questions in job-market tag.
All of these questions are closed, except for this one which has historical lock. Could we do something to help askers understand the risks ...
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Burninate and blacklist request: [career-*] [job-*] [resume]
This is not a duplicate of this: Usefulness of [career-development] and [career-transition] tags ... it's time for them to be blacklisted. The narrowness of scope of what actually would be on topic ...
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Improve question quality by informing askers of expectations in some career related tags
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 ...
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Tag merge discussion: jobs → career
In the first part of what will assuredly be a several part series on tag cleanups, I'd like to discuss merging jobs into career.
Both tags generally are about jobs: working at a job, career ...
user8
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[work], [job], [career-development], [employment] => [career] [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Posse request: jobs/career/etc. tag cleanup
career: 29 questions
work: 5 questions
job: 15 questions
career-development: 8 questions
employment: 3 questions
hiring and work-...
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Posse request: jobs/career/etc. tag cleanup
We discussed merging career and jobs, but now it's time to put a plan into action. Aaronut's plan is great, but we need some help from the posse:
Step 1: Clean up the tags
There are currently ...
user8
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Blacklist [career] and [jobs] [duplicate]
So pursuant to the monumental task we have to clean up the career and jobs tags, we've taken to putting the following notice in the tag wiki excerpts:
Do not use this tag. Click "learn more" for ...
user8
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Structured Tag Cleanup — Call for proposals #1 [closed]
Related:
Request for comment: structured tag cleanups
This is a call for proposals for the Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative.
Provide one proposal per post
A tag cleanup proposal is a tag, or a ...
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Blacklist [career]
career was recently cleaned up, through the Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative.
It's a rather troublesome tag that we've been trying to get rid of for quite some time:
Previous attempts to clean up ...
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Career Advice type questions [duplicate]
Perhaps a duplicate of Blacklist [career-advice] (status deferred)
The FAQs state (inter alia):
and it is not about...
general workplace issues, office politics, résumé help,
career ...
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Why are all of the good career-related threads closed? [duplicate]
This is a great forum but career questions are often interesting and people like reading/responding to them.
Why not allow these types of questions as long as they are tagged "career"? Are there any ...
user39601
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Let's nuke the catch-all tags
While we continue our work on cleaning up the career and jobs tags, I thought I'd bring up the next tag clean-up project: killing the catch-all tags that could be applied to every question on the site....
user8
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why are old questions edited?
I'm sure this question must have been asked before, but I can't find it using the search function. Why are old questions that haven't had any recent new answers edited, which then causes the question ...
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Do we need a [code] or [coding] tag?
Currently on Programmers.SE we have a code tag and a coding tag.
Neither of them are needed. If somebody has a question on code issues, go to Stackoverflow.
I say kill them, but what do you think? ...
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Should I continue editing question titles to be a natural language question?
I began listening to the StackExchange podcast a few months ago, and in one (of several in which they discuss the topic) Jeff and Joel were talking about quality posts, curating content, etc. At one ...
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