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
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.
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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.
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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
>
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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? :-)
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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
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.
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). [..
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
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).
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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. :-)
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In March the jobs site had more postings than any month since June 2008.
Ask
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
> 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
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