This has been gratifying to me personally and seems (to me) to say Perl is
desirable.
I've been doing a job search. My last three jobs were found by word of mouth
- someone told me about the company for two of them. For the third, I didn't
have a lot of time and just went back to a place I've been before (never burn
bridges :-)
But this one is a full-out search and there are new tools available. I'm
using Dice (www.dice.com) after seeing the ad in TPJ. They have a
Metropolitan Area search feature (nice) with the ability to further narrow by
area code as well as the usual keywords.
In the Silicon Valley Metro search, area code 408 (San Jose, the "real"
valley), no restriction by contract vs. "perm", keyword Perl: 1933 matches.
In area code 650 (the peninsula; where I live but not where most people might
think the jobs are): 1645 matches. San Francisco proper (415) has 1598
matches.
The East Bay isn't as hot: only 426 matches for AC 510 (Berkeley/Oakland) and
171 for the rest of the East Bay (new AC 925).
I don't know about you but I'm impressed. OK, so C++ has a lot more matches.
Still, I have over 3000 job descriptions to paw through without even going
into The City.
Then, even nicer, the recruiters have started to call me. I posted my
"availability profile" and the phone is ringing a lot. I'm a Perl programmer
with background in QA, documentation, a little C. No C++, no Java, I don't do
Windows. And I got a dozen calls yesterday alone. Two this morning before 9am
(bleh). Thank the Maker for answering machines. Not only that, a lot of them
are actually close to interesting matches :-)
- Vicki
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