I am still enjoying a long, long stint at my first place of "permanent" employment, but only til the end of the year. (A hint to the timeframe: I found this job in the Sunday want-ads.)

Below are two sites I wasn't aware of, that were recommended to me and are proving useful:
www.indeed.comPages of tempting job openings from just my zip code and "perl"
www.quintcareers.comCopious well-written advice on resumes, cover letters, interviewing, etc.

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Re: Job Hunting Sites
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2011 at 17:30 UTC

    I'll probably regret sharing this someday as it'll increase quality competition but…

    I've been using indeed.com for a long time. The email alerts especially are nice, and they can be used as feeds as well. This is one of my daily email alerts, for example–

    perl telecommute -internship -java -c++ $90,000-$200,000 -"not a telecommuting" -"telecommute is not" -"telecommuting is not"

    Update, typo; thanks hbm.

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      Cool, I'll look into the alerts.

      I note a typo in your penultimate negation...

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Re: Job Hunting Sites
by cavac (Prior) on Dec 13, 2011 at 16:58 UTC

    Hmm, just found out that indeed works for my region in Austria(1) too. It lists quite a few jobs, but i know all the companies listed and i know why they can't hold on to their staff very long.

    So, it's a rather mixed bag. From experience, in my region the companies are so short on experienced software developers that never had to actually bargain to get a job. For the current one i got hired while doing some maintenance in the customers server room for my previous company. As for the three jobs before (we're talking about the timeframe of over a decade), i just sent out a mail to my local linux mailinglist and got hired within a few days...

    (1) Austria: The one with Mozart, not the one with Kangaroos.

    BREW /very/strong/coffee HTTP/1.1
Host: goodmorning.example.com

418 I'm a teapot
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Re: Job Hunting Sites
by locked_user sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Dec 21, 2011 at 15:22 UTC

    Best way I’ve seen to approach job-hunting is to be “hunting for a job” all the time, even when you have one.   Never abandon the task of searching for new business prospects, even when (especially when) you are feeling “fat and happy.”   Haven’t ever found these well-publicized sites to be too useful, though, because they are well-known to everyone and his dog; and they are especially well-known to recruiters vs. the ones who are actually doing the hiring.   The somewhat odd way I heard it put was, “Nobody cares more about that Fuller Brush® than you do, therefore don’t expect somebody else to do your selling of that brush for you.”   Which is basically what a recruiter tries to do:   thus, you are selling to another salesman who can’t actually buy the brush, and you have no idea how many other folks might be trying to peddle (literally) the same brush to the same person.

    The game of looking for a job is the game of selling, and it basically follows the exact same rules of play.   Looking for “the stones that are more-often unturned” is often a more pragmatic approach to the problem of finding business.   Also, seeking to put yourself into direct contact with the person who actually has the “Money, Authority, and Pain” to hire you ... while it is more work to do this ... is usually more productive.   When you do finally make that contact, nothing speaks stronger on your behalf than a good personal reference or three, so cultivate those references throughout your career.

      Always hunt for a job. Check. Cultivate references. Check. Look for "more-often unturned" stones. Huh? I reckon you mean "less often turned", but I'm contemplating the measurability of "unturnedness"...

      Google reveals one other use of that phrase, referring to a shared hot-water tap in Cluj, Romania. Yes - on or off, "turned" or "unturned". But a stone?

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