Re: BBC jobs

2012-04-16 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 09:57:00PM +1000, Kieren Diment wrote: > * Please note that the salary available for the role depends on which > level of experience you are considered for. And here's the current Freedom of Information response giving numbers for pay grades: http://downloads.bbc.co.

Re: BBC jobs

2012-04-16 Thread Kieren Diment
On 16/04/2012, at 9:44 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:15:00PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > >> In case anyone missed this: >> >> http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2859626 > > And for those who aren't on Linked In?

Re: BBC jobs

2012-04-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:15:00PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > In case anyone missed this: > > http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2859626 And for those who aren't on Linked In? -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david NANOG makes me want to unp

BBC jobs

2012-04-14 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
In case anyone missed this: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=2859626 Good team, I'm sitting with them now, a few names you might recognise are there and several more have passed through. Data munging at its finest.

Re: Junior-mid level Perl - and London Perl Jobs

2011-04-27 Thread Leo Lapworth
We have two mailing lists for Perl jobs... http://london.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs is the London.pm jobs mailing list - please post job specs / details here (archive: http://london.pm.org/pipermail/jobs/ to see examples of job specs) http://london.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/jobs-discuss also

Re: Jobs in London

2011-04-21 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 23 March 2011 12:43, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:32:11PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: >> On 23 Mar 2011, at 11:16, David Cantrell wrote: >> > IME it's the norm for large employers.  Even at smaller employers my >> > experience is that that's generally what it says in the

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:32:11PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > On 23 Mar 2011, at 11:16, David Cantrell wrote: > > IME it's the norm for large employers. Even at smaller employers my > > experience is that that's generally what it says in the contract, although > > in practice they either go b

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-23 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 23 Mar 2011, at 11:16, David Cantrell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:55:20AM +, Victoria Conlan wrote: > >> Btw, Dave - the only place I know that offers a month's salary per year >> worked is the Beeb ... > > IME it's the norm for large employers. Even at smaller employers my > ex

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-23 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:55:20AM +, Victoria Conlan wrote: > Btw, Dave - the only place I know that offers a month's salary per year > worked is the Beeb ... IME it's the norm for large employers. Even at smaller employers my experience is that that's generally what it says in the contract

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-22 Thread Victoria Conlan
You're getting a lot of bikeshedding here. Summary: there's a shortage of perl programmers in London right now. Go back through jobs.perl.org and as far as I know, many of those folks are still hiring. I've had two contract offers this cycle with some other interesting things going on in the bac

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-08 Thread Dan Brook
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:15 PM, marcos rebelo wrote: > Hi all > > I'm considering to move, an London would be a nice place. > > Someone may give a hand to find a Job to a 11 Years (7 years) Perl Hi Marcos, The company I'm working at, Venda, is still hiring Perl devs so please feel free to send

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 26 Feb 2011, at 16:15, marcos rebelo wrote: > Hi all > > I'm considering to move, an London would be a nice place. > > Someone may give a hand to find a Job to a 11 Years (7 years) Perl > experienced Developer? You're getting a lot of bikeshedding here. Summary: there's a shortage of perl

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Corlett
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 04:48:52PM +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: [...] > In this point, the Organization may change my work and after say that is > no longer needed. Being fired because of that. That's unfair dismissal. You can, and probably should, sue in that case. In such a simple abuse of the re

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-04 Thread David Cantrell
ut of it, 27 if they do. This is > not an alternative, it's a clarification. Some jobs (possibly not > coding) may require 365 working, so it needs to be covered somehow. Some programming jobs do require coverage all the time every day, as the developers are sometimes the third or

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 04:48:52PM +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 16:32, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:13:05PM +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: > >> Since the offer of a Long Term Contract seem too easy, I was trying to > >> understand: > >>  - in which situ

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-04 Thread Dominic Thoreau
on't come out of it, 27 if they do. This is not an alternative, it's a clarification. Some jobs (possibly not coding) may require 365 working, so it needs to be covered somehow. -- Nonnullus unus commodo reddo is mihi. ABC*D1EFGHIJK2.LMNO3*4PQRST*ITUBE-STANDARD-ANTI-BULLSHEIT-EMAIL*U.56X

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-04 Thread marcos rebelo
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 16:32, David Cantrell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:13:05PM +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: > >> Since the offer of a Long Term Contract seem too easy, I was trying to >> understand: >>  - in which situation may a Organization fire a person that has a Long >> Term Contract

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-04 Thread Denny
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 15:32 +, David Cantrell wrote: > Permanent employees are entitled to 20 days (I think) paid leave every > year at minimum, including public holidays. 28 including. Used to be 20 excluding. (Which is the same thing for office worker purposes, but the new phrasing means t

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 10:13:05PM +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: > Since the offer of a Long Term Contract seem too easy, I was trying to > understand: > - in which situation may a Organization fire a person that has a Long > Term Contract? Broadly speaking, failure to perform your duties, gross m

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-03 Thread Egor Shipovalov
normal to change contract jobs more often than permanent positions. -- Best regards, Egor Shipovalov. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:10 PM, marcos rebelo wrote: > I need an extra information. > > Every head-hunter from London proposed me long term contracts, in the > rest of Europe they

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-03 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:10 +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: > I need an extra information. > > Every head-hunter from London proposed me long term contracts, in the > rest of Europe they propose a most 1 year contracts. > > What is different in London, that takes the head-hunter to propose > long ter

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Clifford
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:54 +, Peter Corlett wrote: > Some employers offer roles that they call contracts but are really just > time-limited permanent roles that need renewing. This seems to be mainly a > way to avoid the employee protection kicking in after a year. In that case they are ver

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-03 Thread marcos rebelo
I'm sorry if I insult someone. Please s/head-hunter/recruitment agents/ig my previous post. I prefer to have a Long Term Contract, then a n months contract for security since I have a family to feed, but the question maintains. Since the offer of a Long Term Contract seem too easy, I was trying t

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Corlett
On 3 Mar 2011, at 20:10, marcos rebelo wrote: > Every head-hunter from London proposed me long term contracts, in the rest of > Europe they propose a most 1 year contracts. What is different in London, > that takes the head-hunter to propose long term contracts? They are offering "permanent" (or

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-03 Thread Denny
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 21:10 +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: > I need an extra information. > > Every head-hunter from London proposed me long term contracts, in the > rest of Europe they propose a most 1 year contracts. > > What is different in London, that takes the head-hunter to propose > long ter

Re: Jobs in London

2011-03-03 Thread marcos rebelo
I need an extra information. Every head-hunter from London proposed me long term contracts, in the rest of Europe they propose a most 1 year contracts. What is different in London, that takes the head-hunter to propose long term contracts? Best Regards Marcos Rebelo On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 20:5

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 28 Feb 2011, at 17:33, Dan Rowles wrote: > Depends how far you want to go (between which zones). > > Map of zones is here:- > > http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1106.aspx > > Current tickets prices are here:- > > http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx > > There are discounts for usin

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread Dan Rowles
Depends how far you want to go (between which zones). Map of zones is here:- http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1106.aspx Current tickets prices are here:- http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx There are discounts for using Oyster cards, and for weekly / monthly / annual tickets. Dan

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread Dominic Thoreau
On 28 February 2011 17:12, marcos rebelo wrote: > > How much is the Public Transport fares in London? It depends on where you are, where you want to be, and what mode of transport you're using to get there. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14416.aspx -- Nonnullus unus commodo reddo is mihi. ABC*D1

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread Ash Berlin
On 28 Feb 2011, at 17:12, marcos rebelo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 17:40, David Cantrell wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:04:13PM +, Dave Mitchell wrote: >> >>> Then there's 20% VAT on most things you buy. >> >> No there isn't. VAT is not charged on rent and mortgages, which is mo

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Cross
On 02/28/2011 04:40 PM, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:04:13PM +, Dave Mitchell wrote: Then there's 20% VAT on most things you buy. No there isn't. VAT is not charged on rent and mortgages, which is most peoples' biggest cost by far. Your second biggest cost will proba

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread marcos rebelo
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 17:40, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:04:13PM +, Dave Mitchell wrote: > >> Then there's 20% VAT on most things you buy. > > No there isn't.  VAT is not charged on rent and mortgages, which is most > peoples' biggest cost by far.  Your second biggest

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread Richard Foley
And kids, don't forget to calculate kids, shoes, food, discos, etc. and they're more expensive if they're girls! Don't think there's any VAT on kids, at the start, but they'll probably cost you quite a bit of VAT, one way or the other, over time. ;-) Ciao Richard -- Richard Foley Ciao - s

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 02:04:13PM +, Dave Mitchell wrote: > Then there's 20% VAT on most things you buy. No there isn't. VAT is not charged on rent and mortgages, which is most peoples' biggest cost by far. Your second biggest cost will probably be travel. Public transport fares also have

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-28 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 07:29:38PM +0100, marcos rebelo wrote: >I found that the taxes are 40%, but I didn't understood how much > shall I pay for the Social Security. (Approximately) Income tax: first £5K 0% next £30K 20% next £70K 40% the rest 50% National insurance ("so

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Egor Shipovalov
With 7 years of experience you should expect around 50K a year, give or take 5K. -- Best regards, Egor Shipovalov. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:29 PM, marcos rebelo wrote: > Hi all > > I have already seen Monster. > > In here I aspect to find some contacts of enterprises with good programmers, > >

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Edwards
Mid range 32,000 - 40,000. Senior 40,000 - 55,000. Dev manager 55,000 - 70,000. More for banking jobs On 26 Feb 2011 20:05, "marcos rebelo" wrote: > My problem is to know how to answer to the question: > > How much money do you expect to receive? > > If I say a value to l

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread marcos rebelo
My problem is to know how to answer to the question: How much money do you expect to receive? If I say a value to low, I will be leaving the enterprise in short time since someone will offer me more. If I say a value to high, I will lose the position. I would like to know a +- fare amount. Best

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Edwards
> > > In here I aspect to find some contacts of enterprises with good > programmers, > A new board I found recently which seems quite straight up is http://www.coderstack.co.uk/perl-jobs <http://www.coderstack.co.uk/perl-jobs> Cheers, Peter http://perl.dragonstaff.co.uk

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Dominic Thoreau
On 26 February 2011 18:29, marcos rebelo wrote: > Hi all > > I have already seen Monster. > > In here I aspect to find some contacts of enterprises with good programmers, > > I'm curious to know the rates in London: >   How much can I aspect to win a year? >   I found that the taxes are 40%, but I

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread marcos rebelo
Hi all I have already seen Monster. In here I aspect to find some contacts of enterprises with good programmers, I'm curious to know the rates in London: How much can I aspect to win a year? I found that the taxes are 40%, but I didn't understood how much shall I pay for the Social Securit

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Egor Shipovalov
With that kind of experience you shouldn't need a helping hand: Monster and JobServe are your friends. It might even be wise to explore job market a bit before accepting an offer, as it is bigger and more lucrative than anywhere else in Europe. You might have better options here than you initially

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Leo Lapworth
Hi, On 26 February 2011 16:15, marcos rebelo wrote: > I'm considering to move, an London would be a nice place. > > Someone may give a hand to find a Job to a 11 Years (7 years) Perl > experienced Developer? A good place to start is http://jobs.perl.org/ if your not already looking there. Also

Re: Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread Dominic Thoreau
On 26 February 2011 16:15, marcos rebelo wrote: > Hi all > > I'm considering to move, an London would be a nice place. > > Someone may give a hand to find a Job to a 11 Years (7 years) Perl > experienced Developer? The market seems good at the moment. I've been with my current employer for 5 mont

Jobs in London

2011-02-26 Thread marcos rebelo
Hi all I'm considering to move, an London would be a nice place. Someone may give a hand to find a Job to a 11 Years (7 years) Perl experienced Developer? Best Regards Marcos Rebelo -- Marcos Rebelo http://www.oleber.com/ Milan Perl Mongers leader https://sites.google.com/site/milanperlmongers

Re: Oracle Jobs @ UK? [Was: Re: Obsolete software]

2003-03-18 Thread Chris Benson
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 12:51:49PM +, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 12:31, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > I was reading this thread and wondering about how is the oracle DBA market > > at London. Can anybody here tell me if there is good job offers for a > > certified ora

Re: Oracle Jobs @ UK? [Was: Re: Obsolete software]

2003-03-18 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 12:31, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > Hy list folks. > I was reading this thread and wondering about how is the oracle DBA market > at London. Can anybody here tell me if there is good job offers for a > certified oracle DBA at London and surroundings? http://www.jobsta

Oracle Jobs @ UK? [Was: Re: Obsolete software]

2003-03-18 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
g 2hours > > a night gathering partial (estimated) stats ... which overwrite the > > complete stats. So we're better off with week-old actual values than 1 > > day-old estimates! > > > > Isn't Oracle wonderful: "jobs for life"(tm) > > % > [Or

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Rob Thompson
From: Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:10:39AM +, Adam C Auden wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > Is it possible to list agencies as "we can't say because they are threatening > > to sue for libel" without getting sued, so that one can make

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:10:39AM +, Adam C Auden wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > Is it possible to list agencies as "we can't say because they are threatening > > to sue for libel" without getting sued, so that one can make a judgement > > based on that? Or was the

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Adam C Auden
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Is it possible to list agencies as "we can't say because they are threatening > to sue for libel" without getting sued, so that one can make a judgement > based on that? Or was the problem that you were deemed as publishing the > individual libellous co

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 02:05:49AM -0800, Dave Cross wrote: > c) threatened to sue for libel. Is it possible to list agencies as "we can't say because they are threatening to sue for libel" without getting sued, so that one can make a judgement based on that? Or was the problem that you were deeme

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Dave Cross
experiences of them >> by people who've used them? > > It has been attempted before (davorg, were you apart of > this?): > > www.ars.org.uk Yep. That was me. The Agency Rating System. The idea was that you could rate agencies in a number of categories (professional

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Robin Szemeti
them by people who've used them? > > It has been attempted before (davorg, were you apart of this?): > > www.ars.org.uk I think that back in the days when there were more jobs than programmers, such a thing had a chance of working. These days when there are no jobs, its a rather moot point. -- Robin Szemeti

Re: Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 09:03, Peter Sergeant wrote: > Would we run foul of the data-protection act or some-such if we were to > create a database of recruitment consultants, along with thoughts and > experiences of them by people who've used them? It has been attempted before (davorg, were you apa

Recruitment Consultant Database (was: Re: Perl jobs in London?)

2003-02-28 Thread Peter Sergeant
> I've found that some agents are definately more clueful than others.. I think > it helps to try and identify yourself in some way to them, so that *if* a job > comes thru that you fit, that they will actually think of you and call you. > I get the feeling that random people call

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-27 Thread Toby|Wintrmute
; > > it's been discussed before that it's better just to find one or two good > > > agents and stick with them. > > > > Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find for some reason, this email came back to me containing none of my r

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-27 Thread Toby|Wintrmute
wo good > > agents and stick with them. > > Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find. > Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills > for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market > is with

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-27 Thread Toby|Wintrmute
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and > your CV. > > Because they often can't discriminate between the important acronyms and > the less important ... they often wait until they find a CV that is f

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-27 Thread Robin Szemeti
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 22:08, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > Contrary to other answers I'd actually say it's not as bad as it has > > been. > > Not according to www.jobstats.co.uk > > Bottomed? Maybe. given that the stats are just the use of the word 'Perl' in any job add, I'd say the figures

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-26 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 07:58, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:18:49PM +, Bill Corr said: > > No, I'm not looking for a job, although I might be forced to in a few > > weeks time. What I'd like to know is what the job market is like for > > Perl programmers in the London area. >

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 14:06, Peter Hickman wrote: > Ian Brayshaw wrote: > > Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find. > > Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills > > for and would like to do. It's more a

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Peter Hickman
Ian Brayshaw wrote: Agreed. But when you need a job you apply for all the jobs you can find. Those 50 agencies represent over 50 jobs that I feel I have the skills for and would like to do. It's more a measure of how flooded the market is with applications when most recruiters don't rea

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread michael
Nigel Hamilton wrote: >It's quite scary when they advertise for someone with 'Pearl' and >'SeekWell' skills. >Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and >your CV. >I hope that their CV databases weed out CV's that contain acronym >'payloads' hidden in whitespace, hea

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: > Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and > your CV. > > Because they often can't discriminate between the important acronyms and > the less important ... they often wait until they find a CV that is f

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:35:38AM +, Nigel Hamilton wrote: >I hope that their CV databases weed out CV's that contain acronym >'payloads' hidden in whitespace, headers and footers. For example, The ones I've looked at certainly don't. >Before you know it the average CV will be two pages long

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Nigel Hamilton
> > [0] Don't delude yourself about the cluefulnesss of agents/employers: > they are not and will never be clueful. > It's quite scary when they advertise for someone with 'Pearl' and 'SeekWell' skills. Unfortunately some agents do a naive acronym match, between job spec and your CV. Beca

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Ian Brayshaw
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 10:14, Simon Wistow wrote: > I think that's your problem right there. 50 agencies is too many I think > it's been discussed before that it's better just to find one or two good > agents and stick with them. Agreed. But when you need a job you apply

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Simon Wistow
d feel as > though I'm getting no where. I think that's your problem right there. 50 agencies is too many I think it's been discussed before that it's better just to find one or two good agents and stick with them. And word of mouth is good as well, or finding a reliable sourc -

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-25 Thread Ian Brayshaw
CV as they get flooded with CVs for each position these days. Also, make sure you apply for jobs that exist. Gone are the days of just firing your CV at any old agency and having them respond with job possibilities. Agencies are getting selective on which skill sets they are handling, perhaps be

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-24 Thread Simon Wistow
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:18:49PM +, Bill Corr said: > No, I'm not looking for a job, although I might be forced to in a few > weeks time. What I'd like to know is what the job market is like for > Perl programmers in the London area. Contrary to other answers I'd actually say it's not as ba

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-24 Thread Dirk Koopman
> Another way of looking at the job market: rather than "how many perl > jobs are there?" is "how can I find people who have a problem I can > solve with perl, and persuade I'm the person to do it?". From my > experience the latter technique yields orders of

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-24 Thread Paul Makepeace
le, definitely. That "a *lot*" is probably just "quite a few" in skilled hands (i.e. not mine yet). Another way of looking at the job market: rather than "how many perl jobs are there?" is "how can I find people who have a problem I can solve with perl, and persuad

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-24 Thread Robin Szemeti
able proposition, or am I deluding > myself? What sort of level of experience is generally the minimum level > required (contract or full time)? umm http://www.jobstats.co.uk see that ... ? thats a graph that is. The concensus seems to be that the graph gives the impression that there might s

Re: Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-24 Thread Lusercop
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:18:49PM +, Bill Corr wrote: [stuff] Just in reply to the subject: hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha -- Lusercop.net - LARTing Lusers everywhere since 2002

Perl jobs in London?

2003-02-24 Thread Bill Corr
No, I'm not looking for a job, although I might be forced to in a few weeks time. What I'd like to know is what the job market is like for Perl programmers in the London area. Is working as a contractor a viable proposition, or am I deluding myself? What sort of level of experience is generally t

OT: [Perl Jobs] Programmer PERL/OO (onsite), Netherlands, NH,Amsterdam (fwd)

2003-01-16 Thread Raf
r if you want to have a whole lot of fun in a not-too-foreign land, it's a nice place to be. With the new company merging, it'll probably be a lot better developmentvise. Rafiq -- Forwarded message -- Date: 15 Jan 2003 20:45:06 - From: Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECT

FWD: [Perl Jobs] OO Perl / mod_perl programmer for Web CMS (onsite), United Kingdom, Sheffield

2002-07-05 Thread Leon Brocard
A job! A job! - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Perl Jobs] OO Perl / mod_perl programmer for Web CMS (onsite), United Kingdom, Sheffield To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 5 Jul 2002 15:56:05 - Online

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind > dodgy hotmail accounts] > > Can anyone say "perfect job"? Smells like sports.com. -- Dave Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The H

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Cooper
> >> No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible. > > > > That's what I was thinking. They're paying bad salary rates but for a > > contract-length period. > > Hell yes. £2033 after tax per month for three months. Some people would love to be earning that much lately (i.e. better than £

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer -Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom,London]

2002-05-23 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Paul Makepeace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:54:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind >> > dodgy hotmail accounts] >> > >> > Can anyone say "perfect

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:54:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind > > dodgy hotmail accounts] > > > > Can anyone say "perfect job"? > > No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *real

Re: [jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer -Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom,London]

2002-05-23 Thread pdcawley-london . 0dd185
Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind > dodgy hotmail accounts] > > Can anyone say "perfect job"? No. The rate's terrible. And I mean *really* terrible. -- Piers "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a languag

[jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] Perl Developer - Perl/mod_perl/ Template Toolkit/Linux/XML (onsite), United Kingdom, London]

2002-05-23 Thread Leon Brocard
[Forwarded for anyone currently searching for a job who doesn't mind dodgy hotmail accounts] Can anyone say "perfect job"? Leon - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Perl Jobs] Perl Develope

Re: [Perl Jobs] ???, United Kingdom, Sunderland]

2002-02-04 Thread Chris Benson
And if anyone fancies coming up and joining Tyneside.pm, there is:- Ty: Permanent Po: Perl Programmer-Sunderland Sk: You will be responsible for setting up and running the production code in a Unix environment in Perl languages. Supporting projects from initial receipt of data to final ou

[jobs-admin@perl.org: [Perl Jobs] 3rdkind Virtual Office Project (telecommute), United Kingdom, Manchester]

2002-02-04 Thread Leon Brocard
Just in case people hadn't seen it... - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Perl Jobs] 3rdkind Virtual Office Project (telecommute), United Kingdom, Manchester To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3 Feb 20

JOBS: Web developer / Lead designer

2002-02-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Fotango (http://www.fotango.com/), where James and I work, are looking to fill two positions. Maybe you know somebody... Please contact: Simon Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** Web Developer (Javascript / HTML / DHTML...) 2+ years experience of web development in a commercial environment working

Re: [Perl Jobs] Senior Perl Developer (telecommute), United Kingdom, London, UK

2002-01-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
iage return literals are still in the same places. The word "urgently" has been dropped, which does seem honest. At this rate they'll be advertising for 4 years perl6 experience. I was going to forward it verbatim from perl jobs list, but it says somewhere that unified diffs are pref

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2002-01-04 Thread Greg McCarroll
probably the job we discussed in a previous thread, but may be of interest to some - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

JOBS?

2001-12-17 Thread Steve Keay
A friend asked me to help two Polish guys who are in London with student visas. Apparently that means that they are only allowed to (be payed to) work 20 hours per week. By all accounts they are nice people, their English is good, and they are highly motivated and have been working hard for an a

[JOB] Forwarded : [Perl Jobs] Perl - Applications Progammer (part onsite), United Kingdom, North Yorkshire, Harrogate

2001-11-28 Thread Greg McCarroll
- Forwarded message from Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/168 To subscribe to this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted: November 27, 2001 Job title: Perl - Applications Pro

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2001-11-14 Thread Greg McCarroll
For the benefit of those not subscribed to Perl Jobs, a London job appeared ... - Forwarded message from Perl Jobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: [Perl Jobs] OO Perl programmer for UK software house (onsite), UK, London NW11 Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/1

Borrocks (was Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer(onsite), UK, London])

2001-10-19 Thread Jonathan Stowe
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Andrew Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:33:12PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > network configuration =) I believe the phrase was "If they want to > > mail it to me they'll fix it". On the contrary, it has made sure > > I leave it exactly the same way as it is now

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-19 Thread Andrew Wilson
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:33:12PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > network configuration =) I believe the phrase was "If they want to > mail it to me they'll fix it". On the contrary, it has made sure > I leave it exactly the same way as it is now =) You can hardly say on the contrary here, you

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-19 Thread Dave Cross
From: "Dave Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10/18/01 1:27:36 PM >From: Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 10/18/01 12:36:55 PM > > [rant snipped] > > I've said this before and I'll (no doubt) have to say it > again in the future. > > The london.pm mailing list is meant to be inclu

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite),UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:08:07AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > I think you can also include the footnote as a tool tip or similiar so > > it appears on a mouseOver. > > You assume too much of the platform :-) Peanutpress deal in books for > the Palm (and, I think, some WinCE crap). Neither

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite),UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread pdcawley
Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > their mail clients use "top quoting". Did your friends do usability > studies? I did and asked a non-technical user in the pub about this > and they prefered top posting. 'Top quoting' is a mindset I think. When I hit followup with quoting, Gnus popped u

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite),UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread pdcawley
I really can't believe I'm still reading this bloody thread, anyway, down at the bottom... Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: >> > "Steve" == Steve Mynott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Steve> I think Microsoft have done usability stu

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite),UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:41:09AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 03:59:04PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > What is not good is that the hyperlink takes you to a page which has all > > the footnotes for the entire chapter on it, so you have to scroll to find > > the right

Re: Netiquette was Re: [Perl Jobs] CGI / MySQL developer (onsite), UK, London]

2001-10-18 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:33:12PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > I spy a parallell between this and refusing mails from mailservers > from some people on the list because he doesn't agree with their > network configuration =) I believe the phrase was "If they want to > mail it to me they'll fix

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