Re: annual job stats?

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Uri Guttman wrote:

> and you can see the monthly postings since may 2001 at:
>
> 	http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats
>
> dunno what more you need. trivial to download that and pipe it into a
> graphing thingie of your choice. a quick eyeballing shows solid growth
> in each year and never a major long term downslide in postings per
> month. part of this is due to repeated posts
> for the same unfilled jobs and also the word keeps spreading about the
> site and list. more agencies and companies seem to be using it.
>
> the only downtrend i see is that december seems to always be a
> low month but that makes sense.

These stats aren't the best option. When a job expires and gets renewed, 
we update the date of the posting, so jobs move from month to month if 
they're reposted.

brian d foy produced some stats based on mail to the [email protected] list 
which are probably better. It seemed like job postings have only gone up 
in the past few years. Whether that's the market or simply that 
jobs.perl.org has better market _share_ is impossible to know.


-dave

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