Re: International job market and jobs.perl.org

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