International job market and jobs.perl.org

Roland Moritz asked about why there are no perl job offers in Germany
in another e-mail.

I don't know about Germany, I see that in Israel there is a growing number
of jobs in perl - not enough but there are a few.
Non of them makes it to the jobs.perl.org. Some of them make onto the
mailing list of the Israeli Perl Mongers or onto our web site.

I am not sure why and if this is fixable but here is my experience:

1) Once I posted a job there and even though I wrote the job is on
site and if IIRC also that I cannot support relocation about 99% of
the responses came form overseas. When I responded with a no thank you
I even got some angry letters.

A friend of mine who was looking for a perl programmer for Check Point
had similar experience.

2) The whole site seems to be geared toward English speakers,
I mean both the site and the posts are in English and while other
programmers might be also comfortable reading English it is a barrier
to post.


To be clear I am not blaming here anyone and I have no good idea how to
fix this or otherwise improve the site.

Someone might want to translate the site into different languages and
enable posts in those languages as well. The former is relatively easy,
for the latter you'll probably have to have different moderators who can
understand those languages.

That might help to get more International jobs be posted on jobs.perl.org

Gabor
http://www.szabgab.com/

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Hi,

Gabor Szabo wrote:
 >
 > Roland Moritz asked about why there are no perl job offers in Germany
 > in another e-mail.
 >
 > I don't know about Germany, I see that in Israel there is a growing number
 > of jobs in perl - not enough but there are a few.

Mainly in Germany perl skills are required as "add on" knowhow like
"shell scripting/perl/sed/awk skills desired" but not as main qualification.

 > Non of them makes it to the jobs.perl.org. Some of them make onto the
 > mailing list of the Israeli Perl Mongers or onto our web site.
 >
 > I am not sure why and if this is fixable but here is my experience:
 >
 > 1) Once I posted a job there and even though I wrote the job is on
 > site and if IIRC also that I cannot support relocation about 99% of
 > the responses came form overseas. When I responded with a no thank you
 > I even got some angry letters.
 >
 > A friend of mine who was looking for a perl programmer for Check Point
 > had similar experience.

That is a problem, indeed. But that's the daily job of HR. Every job
advertisement will result in many unqualified responses...
I doubt that this is unique to jobs.perl.org

 >
 > 2) The whole site seems to be geared toward English speakers,
 > I mean both the site and the posts are in English and while other
 > programmers might be also comfortable reading English it is a barrier
 > to post.

ack.

 >
 > To be clear I am not blaming here anyone and I have no good idea how to
 > fix this or otherwise improve the site.

there is noone to blame. The service is well done.

 > Someone might want to translate the site into different languages and
 > enable posts in those languages as well. The former is relatively easy,
 > for the latter you'll probably have to have different moderators who can
 > understand those languages.


I can provide German localization and do some 'advertisment' to increase
publicity.


regards,
Roland<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->