A question...

Penfold on 2007-05-16T08:13:17

...for my scant collection of readers.

What makes a good or bad Perl job advert? What key words or phrases get you going, above and beyond the response 'yes I know how to do that'?

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Environment and entertainment value

Denny on 2007-05-16T10:31:43

When I'm looking for work, I look at the company to see if it would be a fun place to work - casual dress, flexitime, a generally friendly atmosphere. I also look at whether the work is going to be reasonably interesting or not.

I may be prejudiced...

sigzero on 2007-05-16T11:46:38

If the ad says "PERL", I ignore it.

Re:I may be prejudiced...

jplindstrom on 2007-05-16T12:57:42

Doesn't have to be bad.

It may be the HR department who messed things up and didn't involve the dev team enough. Which in itself might be a bad sign, but nothing even close to being a showstopper.

Re:I may be prejudiced…

Aristotle on 2007-05-16T14:25:09

Yeah, by itself, that does not say anything. It immediately makes me suspicious of other warning signs, though.

Re:I may be prejudiced…

sigzero on 2007-05-17T11:58:08

It immediately makes me suspicious of other warning signs, though.

Yes, I should have qualified it a bit more.

What makes a good or bad Perl job advert?

Adrian on 2007-05-16T14:20:03

You might want to read Ovid's piece and my rant on the topic.

Re:What makes a good or bad Perl job advert?

Aristotle on 2007-05-16T19:53:24

Please repost that rant here!

You don’t write enough here anyway :-), and that rant’s worth being a bit easier to dig back out than a node on PerlMonks.

Re:What makes a good or bad Perl job advert?

Adrian on 2007-05-17T08:36:13

Please repost that rant here!

done.

what do you do with Perl

Lecar_red on 2007-05-16T22:22:26

I hate when I read a job posting and I have no idea how the company uses Perl. The python job site has a "what is Python used for" and I think that is really important part of the posting... since its on a Perl board.

Include information about location of candidates such as if you are willing to pay relocation or if you are willing to talk to candidates from other areas. I may be willing to move for a cool job without the company paying for it.

I agree with Ovid's past post that including a salary range is important. Nothing is worse than going through several interviews to find that the company has only budgeted enough for an entry level candidate.