RE: [TalentSignal] proposal for Job Start Date

To my mind, “negotiable” and “as soon as possible” are similar enough that they shouldn’t need separate handling – both convey a similar message which (I think) is well-handled with the proposed “jobImmediateStart” attribute.

Thanks,
- Joseph

From: Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 8:17 AM
To: public-talent-signal@w3.org
Subject: Re: [TalentSignal] proposal for Job Start Date

Welcome Martin, and thank you for the introduction and valuable contribution.

From your breakdown I think that the current proposal<https://www.w3.org/community/talent-signal/wiki/Provide_start_date_for_job> covers all bar the "Negotiable" case (see below).

Options:

  *   We could give guidance such as "leave blank for negotiable"
  *   We could go back to soliciting text values
  *   We could do a bit of both -- i.e. "leave ISO Date blank for negotiable" and add Text as an expected value type
  *   other?

Whatever put in the definitions we can clarify with examples.

Phil
On 06/05/2019 11:45, Martin Solli wrote:
- 31% have the equivalent of “Negotiable” in the local language.
Not covered

- 30% of jobs have an explicit date set.

This we cover explicitly.
- 20% have no value.
There is always the option of not providing a value.

- 14% have some variation of “As soon as possible” in the local language.
We say to use jobImmediateStart for this

- 5% have only the name of a month or two consecutive months (“August/September”).

ISO 8601 allows values like these, e.g. 2019-06 and 2019-08-01/2019-09-30
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