Re: International job market and jobs.perl.org

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Adam Turoff wrote:

> That's the same situation in the US.  It's only because of the size of
> the English speaking market that it gets as many perl-as-primary-skill
> job openings as it does.

If I understand you regarding the size of the market then the number of US
listings should be roughly the same as the total of Europe. Even
if for the sake of the exercise we take UK to be part of Europe
the number of postings in Europe is far lower than in the US.

Actually roughly 75% of the postings are from the US and 90% from
countries with English as the main language.


> Many (most?) openings in the US do not make it onto jobs.perl.org.  I
> can also attest that many local openings do not make it onto the Perl
> Mongers lists in DC, Philly and NYC.

This is probably true everywhere.
Still the number of postings grew significantly since the opening of the
site more than 3 years ago. This is due to the health of the market and
the hard work of the maintainers and others who directed job postings to
the site.

It would be nice if the rest of the world would catch up.
Even if I won't be able to read most of the posts...


thanks
   Gabor