A Fable

Once upon a time, there was a job board called TAMU. It wasn't actually called TAMU, but "Texas A & M University wildlife job board" is long so I (and everyone else I know) called it TAMU. TAMU was pretty awesome because it had basically every job in my field that there was, at least in the USA (and they sometimes had ones overseas, too). And it wasn't just jobs, they had some grants, graduate assistantships, volunteer opportunities, and more. A lot of people wouldn't have ever gotten employed without TAMU.

Well, TAMU has been replaced with a new version, apparently after the place reorganized. And now it sucks. Used to be, everything was put into these mutually exclusive categories. The position was either temporary, full-time, a volunteer opportunity, or some other category. Now they appear to be using this non-exclusive tagging system. The result is that if you are an undergraduate looking for work experience, you're now directed to a whole bunch of jobs that are labeled "undergraduate experiences" because they take someone with a BS. If you want a permanent position, the 'full-time' jobs now just mean they work you for forty hours a week and include a lot of seasonal positions, which didn't use to be categorized as such.

It's still usable, technically. But it's a straight downgrade in what used to be a highly usable website.