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It also doesn't say that the paper needs to be widely read, just circulated, right? I mean, why pay for a job ad in the SF Chronicle when you can put a cheap ad in the (now defunct?) SF Weekly free paper? When it was still around, SF Weekly would have met the threshold for being widely distributed...

Why pay to reach many thousands of people with a widely read paper when you can pay pennies to reach dozens of people that you don't want to apply to the job anyway?

This is an entire business model.

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“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

That is one of my fave quotes from that book, and I use it often in situations just like this one. It's a shame they didn't include it at all in the movie!

That movie was an abomination. The studios should he ashamed of what they made. The studio didn't even wait till Adams was cold in the ground before they drove through his screenplay with a bulldozer

>Why pay to reach many thousands of people with a widely read paper when you can pay pennies to reach dozens of people that you don't want to apply to the job anyway?

Because the requirement is good faith effort, not exhaustive search. So much of this thread is people not understanding the law. The purpose or the requirement isn't to interview 342M Americans and reject them and only then would you hire a foreign national. People wish that that were the case, but it isn't.

> This is an entire business model.

was this how those 'free newspapers' back around 2005~2010 worked?

Yeah. The trade rags from companies like Ziff Davis had a section of plain classified ads that were like 2-4 pages of 6 point black and white text.

This is precisely what Metro Silicon Valley (Formerly San Jose Metro) is doing. If you look in the back you see many the ads that are being talked about. The same ads are not listed online.

Gather those ads, index them. Offer them as a subscription. Profit..?

Fortunately jobs.now makes them available for free.

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