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When the idea came up, I argued that we shouldn't try to compete with jobs.perl.org. So far, I think we've met that goal. The companies that advertise on jobs.perl.com tend to have jobs that involve Perl but are not exclusively Perl development jobs (and I suspect, but don't have the numbers at the moment, that they advertise exclusively through SimplyHired and don't know of the existence of jobs.perl.org, nor would advertise jobs there if they did).
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O'Reilly could just have easily syndicated jobs.perl.org on the perl.com page and redirected jobs.perl.com to that jobs.perl.org.
Instead, O'Reilly rolled out a paid service. And even the "Jobs on the web" section doesn't bother to include the jobs.perl.org rss feed.
It's not exactly the most supportive thing O'Reilly could have done on this front. It seems more about an O'Reilly agenda than anything else. (Hey, they are a business, after all.)
And I don't really get your point about it being companies that "wouldn't use" jobs.perl.org -- companies that didn't use jobs.perl.org, perhaps. (Possibly because they never knew about it.)
-xdg
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