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,

Re: redundant telecommute posts

2014-08-13 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Aug 13, 2014, at 2:24, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com 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

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

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. :-)

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

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: 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 back of

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 --

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

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

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: [[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/ -

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: 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

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 doing

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: 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: 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 go

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: 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

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