I've never done this on my resume, but I've sent people to the PM site for examples of my code. I have even sent people to specific nodes on this site for my favorite comments and favorite bits of code. When I apply for part- time projects, I generally always give PM as a reference in my emails so prospective employers can get examples of my work.

Addendum:

Just so you know, I'm one of the lucky few who have never, never sent out a printed copy of my resume with a printed cover letter. I have always used electronic communication to talk to my prospective employers and I've never had someone complain about it. I love being a techie.

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

While I can't claim to have never used a paper resume, I always keep an identical html version online. This way I can point a potential employer at my resume, or e-mail it to them, or fax it to them, or hand it to them. Whatever they want. This always impresses. For example, during the process of getting my current job I had a phone interview. The guy didn't call me, so I called him... he had misplaced my resume. So while we were talking he surfed out to my online version. A big plus.

Heheh, yeah Im the same way with the resume, but a few company's Ive applied for have wanted example code that I have done in the past. So I figure if they are acctually going to look at that, they might as well be un-lazy enough to look at a webpage :)

Seems to me that that would depend on what your home page looked like. I think my home page is cool, but I am certain an employer would not. There is nothing on there that would be of any use in getting a job. So....

But hey, if your page is sharp and professional and has the things on there that an employer would want to see, then by all means, tell them about it.

**** oooops! I misread the question. You were talking about your node here *knocks head against the pinball machine* Well, still, same logic applies: if you have something they want to see, then tell them. *****

Roy Alan

"I quit; I concede. Tanj on your silly game!" -- Louis Wu

I think it would also show potential employers that you can deal with questions, meaning if someone asks "what does this do" or "how could this be done", which is what a majority of what happens on the seekers of perl wisdom section. Giving an employer a glimps into how you deal with such things is what I would think of as a great thing to let be known. who knows, mabye potential employers already lurk around the monastary :).

Hmmm... Have you seen my home node at the moment? I don't think I'll be referring any personnel managers to it. Maybe if I toned it down a bit first.

Nuance

It's a good idea.

On the subject of resumes it seems like it'd be a neat little project to create a script that'd parse an XML file into some resemblance of well formatted HTML for display on a web-server. Anybody got something like that? I just hard coded my HTML.

Matt Sergeant had something like that on his web site.

Hmm... just checked and some of the pages seem to be missing. It might be overkill, but you could always check out AxKit.


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I kinda-sorta did that, but I was using XSL.

Unfortunately, Navigator choked on it, so it's back to straight HTML.