From: Group Notification <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2024 7:14 PM
To: Craig, Scott <Scott.Craig@...>
Subject: [ShovelBums] Welcome to [email protected]. Important information about how to post jobs and your account information.

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Hello,

Welcome to the [email protected] group at Groups.io. ShovelBums LLC is a free, easy-to-use email group service I founded in 1999 to help professionals in CRM and academia to easily find work, and for employers to easily find staff. In 20 years ShovelBums has helped fill over 60,000 positions from Archaeology Field Technicans, Principal Investigators, and SHPO's to Full Professors and TV staffing. Please take a moment to review this message with some basic information on how ShovelBums works.?

To learn more about the [email protected] group, please visit

Because you received this message you are now registered and you can begin sending job announcement messages to the ~13,000 professional of this group. Simply send an email to [email protected]?from the registered account you received this message at. Below is a summary of recommended format for composing job emails. If you have a project that requires different levels of staffing, for example, Archaeological Field Technicians and Crew Chiefs I highly recommend that you submit these as separate posting for each job class/project you are advertising for.

Subject: Make your subject clear and informative. Include the job class (Archaeological Field Technicians, Crew Chiefs, Field Director, etc...), The job location(s), company name.
Example: 3 Temporary Archaeological Field Technicians - S. California - Excavation & Associates
Not: Archaeology Job

Attachments: You may include attachments, but you must include a cut and paste of the message in the body of the text. Some list members are in extremely remote areas with very limited/infrequent bandwidth. This ensures all members will receive each posting.

Body:?Do not include any personal messages to me in the body of the message! If you need to reach me you can use RJoe@...

• Do not include anything in the job posting message you do not want to be sent out. If your email includes a .sig file that has your contact information, but you don't want that sent with, you need to remove it first. I have to assume that what comes through to the list is exactly what you want to be sent out.
• In the body of the message please include as much detail as you can about the job.?
• If you are allowed,?PLEASE include salary information!
• Keep your formatting simple
• If you have an?attachment?PLEASE include a cut and paste of it within the document. Sometimes people are in extremely remote areas with unfathomably bad connection speeds. Text downloads quickly. I will reject messages with only an attachment with a message to you and you will need to resubmit it.
• Keep your message clear & concise.
• BE SURE TO INCLUDE CONTACT INFORMATION?or where to apply clearly in the body of the message.?
• Email addresses included in the message are visible to everyone who receives a copy of the original email and to every member who is logged into?. BUT if a guest is accessing the archived jobs board??and that member is not logged in they will only see a truncated version of the contact email after the @?sign. This is to prevent Spam harvesting bots from being able to scrape the list for emails. So consider making it clear what your domain is for receiving emails. If it is your company URL then include a sentance along the lines of if the email is not visible you may contact us using this user name (Name) at our website ?WeDontDigDinos.com.
• Yes, I realize this is clunky.
• I think of it as a first-level filtering mechanism for jobs. If someone can't figure your email out from a posting where it is partially obscured do you think they will be able to interpret the transition point of a 10YR 5/6 Sandy Silt Loam to a 10YR 4/6?

After your job is posted: When your job is approved it is immediately emailed out to the 13,000 members of ShovelBums. With our profession being so small it is very likely that if the person(s) you are looking for is not a member of the list, a friend of theirs is. And your posting will very quickly make it in front of them. After the email goes out the job posts are automatically also posted to thousands of other CRM and Academic professionals on the linked ShovelBums account at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram

If your position is filled and you are still being flooded with applicants: Please send in a "Position Filled (include the original subject)". There is no cost for position closed/filled announcements.

Reposting: You can repost an ad up to two times in 30 days of the original posting date for free.


Cost: The fee structure for ShovelBums is explained in full here:??. I will always work with you to be sure you receive the value you expect for the advertisements you post on ShovelBums. And if your company is broke, but needs staff? My (bad) business philosophy is that it is more important for employers to find staff and potential employees to find work than for you to be worried about an invoice from me. My hope is that if you are not able to pay at this time, this project you advertise will be the one to help you get back into the black and be able to pay future invoices.

Recruiting Firms: If you are a professional recruiting firm not affiliated with the company you are advertising for please contact me first for authorization due to a high frequency of non-payments.?

Additional Info: To see and modify all of your groups and your account settings, such as email frequency and type, go to ?

If you have any questions not answered on ?or??you can reach me at RJoe@...?This document is being continually revised with the goal of you never needing to reach out to me :-)

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Best,

R. Joe
The [email protected] Moderator
Founder of ShovelBums LLC, 1999

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