Re: Even more Amazon hiring news

2003-06-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:12 US/Pacific, Andrew Wyllie wrote: that Amazon hired 5 of the 300 people they had come in for interviews over the last few months. I'm not quite sure how to interpret that How about that they filled 5 open positions and that they got so many resumes that they inte

Re: Even more Amazon hiring news

2003-06-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:50 US/Pacific, Andrew Wyllie wrote: Does anybody know how many resumes the average posting on jobs.perl.org might get? From what I've been told then anywhere from only a few handful of relevant resumes to hundreds. - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/

Re: [Perl Jobs] Perl Programmer (onsite), India, Maharashtra, Mumbai

2003-06-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Monday, Jun 2, 2003, at 06:48 US/Pacific, Mike Gnitecki wrote: Please, someone tell me that I made a _serious_ calculating error. You made a serious calculating error. You calculated that the cost of living where you live is comparable to the cost of living where the position is. - ask

Re: NYC 40/hr net-30?

2004-01-21 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 21, 2004, at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I've seen so far, I don't think Perl skills are enough any more to demand the high pay. In 1999-2001, they were. You have to almost have a package of other tech skills which tend to include Java and PHP or Linux, Apache, MySQL. Well, du

Re: improving skillset (was "YC 40/hr net-30?)

2004-01-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: Of course you can write programs in perl which are easy to maintain by you, but maybe there are other perl programmers which don't like your style of writing programs, and they might tell that you are a bad style programmer and that their st

Re: job post stats

2004-02-05 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jan 16, 2004, at 7:45 AM, Andrew Brosnan wrote: A while back Dave posted the addition of a stats page on jobs.perl.org http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats which breaks down job posts by month and by country. I'd like to see job posts broken down by state in the US. I've added that to the page.

Re: been a very good year so far

2004-03-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 16, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Chris Devers wrote: More seriously though, are the longer term trends available anywhere? I seem to remember discussion about it not too long ago, but I forget... http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats They are slightly (but only slightly) off as an updated listing someti

Re: netiquette in cc'ing passed-on jobs

2004-03-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 23, 2004, at 4:42 AM, Terrence Brannon wrote: I often get emails on Perl positions that I opt to pass on. Is it bad etiquette to reply to the sender with an optout reply, but keep his contact info and job req in the reply with a Cc to jobs-discuss so that interested parties can apply? Ye

Re: shattered record

2004-03-26 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 26, 2004, at 4:16 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: "JVE" == John Von Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JVE> Speaking of jobs, the site is messed up, http://jobs.perl.org returns a JVE> 500 error. looks good now. could have just been a temporary outage. ask? I didn't think it was worthwhile to g

Re: Is Publishing the Way to Go?

2004-04-05 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Apr 5, 2004, at 9:10 AM, gohaku wrote: One more thing, if a Job requires "Extensive Experience with Perl", how would you prove that you have "Extensive Experience with Perl"? Given a candidate I don't already know I'll always look the name up on $search_engine. Finding mailing list archives

Re: new list suggestion: jobs-passed-on@perl.org

2004-04-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 20:15:09 -0400, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if they are too lazy to post to the site, then why should you help them > by reposting to a list for them? if they are satisfied with the response > they get from whatever resources, why would they even care about your >

Re: vague interview opener questions are irksome

2004-05-05 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 5, 2004, at 2:57 PM, Steve Leibel wrote: but I've NEVER been asked, "Are you a hard worker?" or, "Will you help us succeed?" Why is that? Because the answer to those questions are painfully predictable. Really Not Useful. When you get asked "tell me a little bit about what you've been d

Re: will you take fries with that?

2004-10-17 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Oct 16, 2004, at 17:36, Marty Landman wrote: So why not post it? Unless they are not competitive with my local Cumberland Farms who had been advertising for counter help at $9/hr. A fair guess is that they have a $1000/month budget and hope they can get someone to do whatever work they have fo

Re: good numbers for 2004

2005-03-09 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Mar 8, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: stupid post of the month: [...] Please let's quit pointing out mistakes in peoples postings here; I can't imagine how it's helping anyone find a employee, employer or contract. In other words: How is it helping jobs.perl.org? If there's contact inf

Re: Senior PERL CGI/DB Programmer (onsite), United States, CA, San Diego,

2005-08-07 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Aug 5, 2005, at 8:14 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Perl> URL for more information: http://www.console.net/ Perl> Contact information at: Perl> http://jobs.perl.org/job/2934#contact So, they spell it "PERL", and have no email contact address. Did you look at the contact information link?

Re: OT: Tracking billable time

2005-08-24 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:14 PM, Chris Devers wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a time tracking tool/software to keep track of billable time for multiple projects/clients. What, something simpler than keeping it on a PDA and syncing it? Text files! A file per client and a format not

Re: indeed.com

2005-09-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Sep 2, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Tom Metro wrote: When comparing job search engines simplyhired.com and indeed.com, I noticed that while indeed.com included craigslist postings, simplyhired.com didn't, and simplyhired.com included jobs.perl.org postings while indeed.com didn't. They have for

Re: [[Perl Jobs] Modperl / Unix Programmer (onsite), United States, CA, San Diego: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-10-12 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Oct 12, 2005, at 19:50 , Anthony Ettinger wrote: Does that req really look like jr. level? [] * BS in Computer Science or related field or 2 years of relevant experience 2 years experience would be pretty junior most places, no? :-) - ask -- http://askask.com/ - http://develoop

Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Tom Metro wrote: and before I looked at them more closely and realized that they all came from the same company, I wondered if the formatting of the subject line had changed for the better. Apparently not, so I'd like to propose a format change. The above subjec

Re: [Perl Jobs Discuss] Subject line formatting of Perl Jobs postings

2005-12-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Andrew Brosnan wrote: Special-casing the US is probably wrong; this is a fairly international list. Well, it is a *little* lopsided :-) Jobs per Country United States 2302 United Kingdom 305 [...] Well, the idea is to encourage posters from other countries.

Re: any contact with [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-02-03 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Feb 3, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Uri Guttman wrote: a recent lead 'Perl programmer to make forums and cgi-bin scripts' has a bogus url http://devbot.pfwh.com/. that url is broken and the primary domain is a pet store in penn and they never heard of this (i called the number found in whois). [..

Re: cover letter

2006-02-06 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Feb 6, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Tom Metro wrote: I've never found much use for cover letters on either the hiring or applying side of things. I think they are an antiquated formality that doesn't really fit with the modern way that job applications are handled online. Isn't the "modern equiv

Re: quandry

2006-04-01 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Apr 1, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: any thoughts? 1) You really need to replace your keyboard with one that includes a "shift" key. 2) Why not post to the site? (Or maybe I misunderstood the quandry -- it was hard to read). - ask -- http://askask.com/ - http://develo

Re: OO perl developer (onsite), United States, CA, Alviso

2006-05-20 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 19, 2006, at 10:30, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: like a difference between an email address and a web address? It's entirely likely that the site could be clearer (and/or it should check the data). It's all on the TODO and/or in progress. :-) - ask -- http://www.askbjoernhansen.c

Re: telecommute only jobs

2006-07-15 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jul 14, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Anthony Ettinger wrote: Is it possible to only subscribe to telecommute jobs? either via rss or email? http://jobs.perl.org/rss/telecommute.rss -- http://askask.com/ - http://develooper.com/

Re: I value my freedom more than almost anything... except duckets

2006-11-24 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Nov 23, 2006, at 11:17, Dave Rolsky wrote: I know the advice of "never talk smack about former employers", but I call BS on that. I've been looking for a new job, and the main reason is that I really dislike my current position, and I blame that on the employer. I've talked about this

Re: I value my freedom more than almost anything... except duckets

2006-11-25 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Nov 25, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote: I don't think you need to be unremittingly positive. [...] It should probably really be "don't be a jerk", but for most people that's too complicated so the generic advice ends up as "don't talk smack about former employers". Smart people

Re: Is the world fair or not...

2006-12-23 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Why do tit-for-tat? Just be nice, end of story. I agree with Joe - if you aren't treated reasonably, tell someone if possible and then give notice / quit. There's never a reason to be a jerk. Three examples: 1) When I've helped companies interview people, my downwards thumb is much

Re: Lenght of resumes

2007-11-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Nov 13, 2007, at 12:00, "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "José" == José Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> A quick question: what's the standard size for resumes in yo ur countries? Mine's about a paragraph long, but it's in the b

Re: Singapore jobs - culture and similarity?

2010-12-27 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 27, 2010, at 20:44, Darren Duncan wrote: > Maybe its a different culture thing with Singapore, but as far as I know in > North America it is inappropriate to be asking for a photo with an > application, same as it is inappropriate to ask questions on one's family > status or religion or

Re: Are foreign perl programmers needed in US?

2010-12-31 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Dec 30, 2010, at 1:10, Lev Leontiev wrote: > Is it possible to get a job and sponsorship remotely or I have to come > to US first? Most of the time jobs are found via personal connections and recommendations. I think this would be particularly true if you are looking for someone to invest

Google +1 buttons

2011-08-22 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
There have been a gazillion[1] small behind the scenes updates to the jobs site in the last year. I made a small one just now that's more user visible, adding a Google +1 button. Not sure what if any use it'll be, but if you start clicking on them we'll find out. :-) http://jobs.perl

City searches on jobs.perl.org

2011-09-14 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
Hi everyone, Since earlier today you can now do a proper geospatial search for jobs: http://jobs.perl.org/search?location=los+angeles Not all of the current postings on the site have been geo coded, but they should expire over the next couple of weeks anyway. :-) All new postings are

Job postings back to 2008 levels

2012-04-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
In March the jobs site had more postings than any month since June 2008. Ask

Re: redundant telecommute posts

2014-08-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Aug 13, 2014, at 2:24, Uri Guttman wrote: > do they have an office in columbus? the reason i see is just to get more > posts out for the same job listing. there is a rule about not repeating job > posts too often and this skirts the rule. It's a grey area and we do our best to keep it bala

Re: Perl Jobs mailing list missing most jobs on website

2018-04-02 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
> On Mar 23, 2018, at 12:44 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: > > I just noticed that the j...@perl.org mailing list is only getting a small > fraction of the Perl jobs that appear at https://jobs.perl.org rather than > the same list which I would have expected. Hi Darren, If I remember right then t