Or at least, it mostly isn't a job offer.

It is however, a meditation on job offers and more specifically, a simple question:

Where the hell can we find some perl developers?

We're a moderately well known perl company in the LA area who are deseperately seeking perl devs and are having no luck in finding any. We're doing the usual things like jobs.perl.org and even had a booth at last YAPC::NA. What else is there to try? Are there huge resevoirs of untapped perl knowledge out there someplace?

As sort of an informal poll, are there many among the numbers here that are out of work or searching for work and unable to find it? Or are perl developers just slowly drying up and as such in very high demand? Perhaps because perl is no longer hip and trendy and there's no new crop of developers starting?

So I reiterate my first question. Where do we get some perl developers? Are there just none out there? Do we have to try to head hunt from other companies? That seems somewhat nonuseful. Anyone have any ideas?

In reply to This isn't a job offer. by BUU

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