Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings? 82
OS Jobs asks: "The startup I work at is looking for an IT maven to design and run a large cluster (1000s) of Linux machines. We are fully plugged into the open source philosophy and would like to build this cluster using only open source tools. We have advertised at most of the regular places including Monster, various LUGs, and so forth. In response to our ads we see people with industrial experience who know every proprietary product in existence, but almost none who are steeped in open source development. So my question to the Slashdot community is: Where should open-source conscious employers advertise their open-source friendly jobs?"
On slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:On slashdot (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I have just the thing for you (Score:1, Troll)
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I think you know the answer... (Score:5, Informative)
Basically a great place to advertise the job is Slashdot! Of course, this is not really a sustainable strategy (not every OSS job offer will merit a Slashdot story)...
You should consider clicking on the "Jobs" link on the OSTG bar that is at the top of Slashdot. I suspect that many OSS-savvy Slashdot readers use that when looking for jobs, so getting the offer listed there (it appears to link to Yahoo! HotJobs) would probably be a good idea.
Re:I think you know the answer... (Score:5, Insightful)
And employers would *pay* to post jobs. Imagine having your position seen by all system admins worldwide that checked a box that they want to see sysadmin jobs on their Slashdot homepage? The response would be huge. Of course, far be it from OSTG from doing something that could make them money.
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First off, why would anyone post something positive? That means almost everything is going to be negative. Mostly inaccurate, but with a grain of truth to it.
Then, if you knew about such a message board and looked at it, would you want to go and find out if all of the terrible things you were reading were accurate? Or, would you just pass it on by as not b
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E-mail me if you're interested in getting in on the beta testing/bulletproofing.
-Ed
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-Eric
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By the way, run Google searches also. My resume is on a website (run entirely with open-source tools), and NOT on Monster, as their "quick and easy post-your-resume'o'
Advertising for Perl Jobs is simple (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Advertising for Perl Jobs is simple (Score:2)
Amen! I've found plenty of great people through that and I, in turn, have picked up great jobs through it. Fortunately the quality of jobs listed there is often very high and Perl programmers who really have a clue pay attention to that site, even when they're not looking for work. It's a great way to spot trends.
Craigslist (Score:2, Informative)
Try your local LUG (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Try your local LUG (Score:1)
Where? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Where? (Score:5, Funny)
How about in your
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Sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
so... what are the qualifications you're looking for?
Re:Where? (Score:2)
Almost doesn't seem to matter (Score:3, Funny)
A start-up with 1000s of machines?
Regardless of where you advertise (this post was a decent start, but check out the other OSTG sites; plus, Google linux jobs for lots of other sites), make sure you screen every candidate to see which one has the best current job. Before you hire that candidate, make sure you have a shot at filling that vacant position. In other words, start looking for where you're going to land when this one crashes. Also, get an ebay account so that you can dump all the Herman Miller chairs and foosball tables when that's all you have left. And party like it's 1999.
You could try.. (Score:5, Funny)
You'd have to post it as a lament though.
Man, I wish I could find some programmers as good as you guys for my positions starting at $95k with full medical and dental. It's amazing how many people turn down our 401k and stock option program, especially with the incredible opportunities for advancement.
Anyway, you make a good point about user mode autodetect with the current situation, although I still think in-kernel autodetect should be the goal.
You could try...if you are polite and don't spam (Score:2)
Second, make it clear what your post is about, so people who are NOT looking for a job can simply ignore it. Use a topic like "Job Offer: Startup looking for Linux admins".
University ? (Score:2, Informative)
Craigslist ? (Score:2)
You know, myspace has a lot of traffic too now that I think about it.
Re:Craigslist ? (Score:1)
Re:Craigslist ? (Score:2, Insightful)
probably not a very good place to advertise employment at all, let alone this particular job.
Re:Craigslist ? (Score:2)
Geez, way to generalize, buddy.
Girls in their late teens have got to make up at least 20%.
Dice.com (Score:1)
Dice has turned into a free-for-all (Score:3, Interesting)
Nevermind the fact that these recruiters routinely disregard location and travel preference.
It comes down to recruiters searching on hot keywords (such as linux clusters), and mass-emailing t
But that's the sign of the best job board around (Score:2)
Seriously, though, you DO realize that what you are complaining about is the sign of a healthy, free market job board? Of course you get spammed. How exactly are you going to have a large job board and not get spammed? The best you can do is with a Social Network approach, but even that can be rigged.
I personally find the spam of use - it lets me know what agents to avo
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Development mailing list (Score:3, Insightful)
Have you thought about directly approaching some of the brilliant developpers working on these projects, anyway ? A job opportunity does not have to be advertised if you can fill it by networking inside the community.
USENIX / SAGE / LOPSA (Score:4, Informative)
I might guess that most USENIX [usenix.org], SAGE [sage.org] and LOPSA [lopsa.org] members are well versed in open source tools.
You could try the respective jobs boards:
What is the purpose of the cluster? (Score:3, Insightful)
Also, you might want to reconsider what you are looking for. If you really want a single "IT maven" to design and run the cluster, you are setting yourself up for failure. With that many machines, just swapping out failed hardware approaches a full-time job, so your maven better have a lot of good help.
London? (Score:2)
http://www.gumtree.com/index_posting_jobs_landing
http://www.gumtree.com/ [gumtree.com] (Find other gumtree and kijiji sites around the world)
How solid is the business plan? (Score:4, Insightful)
I wish I knew. . . (Score:2)
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It's nice that you are 100% buzzword compliant, however we are looking for individuals that a) care enough to apply for jobs rather than making us seek out their resume on obscure websites, and b) list actual skills and accomplishments rather than vague statements like "I can write functional code with development tools" and "I can lock down systems down".
Signed,
Anonymous Coward IT Manager
PS: Hint - you have to stand out, but not look absured doing so
ROFL! If I listed actual skills and ac
Re:I wish I knew. . . (Score:1)
your problems (Score:4, Insightful)
Second, you left your resume sitting there. You need to direct it toward suitable matches.
Third, you OWN A HOME without having the finances to back it up. Yeah, it's a better deal if you can sit there for many years and pay the higher rates, but you're in no shape for either. Don't bother unless there are plenty of good-paying jobs for you within about a 7-mile radius.
Fourth, it appears you don't understand the concept of keywords. (though I only see a part of your resume) Your resume is wordy, yet lacking. Most of us take "functional code" to mean either that your code barely runs or that you use screwball academic languages like Haskell and Scheme. CVS is a revision control system, not a release system. You claim "cross platform", but never mention "portable" or "porting".
Fifth... you live in PA. You probably need to move. Find some place cheap that is near a good tech area. Example: Lowell, MA.
Re:your problems (Score:2)
You're right! Actually I am moving (obviously). However I'm pursuing a mechanical engineering job rather than a programmer job at the moment. I never said I was a programmer, just that I had that kind of stuff on my resume for the last 5 years on a statewide job board and nobody ever seemed to notice it or ever called me about a potential job.
I have some excellent prospects lined up in the near future, so not to worry about my grumping. I have run everything into the ground by plan to get my wife through c
Re:your problems (Score:2)
Well, I guess "Replaced legacy ASP system" would need to be rated highly.
Re:your problems (Score:2)
Better would have been to have her drop out. Mine did. I now have 5 kids, hot meals, clean clothes...
You don't get the hot meals and clean clothes if she has her own career. Well, you might get them, but that's unfair and she WILL notice that she's doing twice as much work as you are. Splitting the chores is impossible because you WILL NOT have the same standards. What is clean to you may not be clean to her, so she ends up doing all the cleaning and gets resentful because you agreed to do
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Both are capable.
You could swap roles. That can work, though you'll have difficulty breastfeeding. It's not a given that the lady has to be the homemaker, though most people find this to be more natural. In two out of three cases I'm
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Re:your problems (Score:2)
See if you last a decade.
Supposing you do, see how you feel about the work/leisure split after 4 or 5 decades.
I never heard anybody old say "I wish I'd spent less time with my family." Think you'll say that?
One of the saddest things I ever saw was a coworker receiving his kids for the weekend.
BTW, separate
Just missed it (Score:2)
But you just missed it.
Obligatory Joel reference (Score:1)
Re:Obligatory Joel reference (Score:2)
I'm just kidding, but it's funny that Joel really can't define the qualities of "the best", but he knows they always have work.
To Reverse The Question (Score:2)
I've gone through most of the "regular" channels in searching for a job (e.g. Monster, Dice, Hotjobs, Career Builder, my school's Career Services department)
We have 130,000 developers each month.. (Score:2)
Linux Questions (Score:1)
BTW: I haven't used it myself.
I know in Dallas/Fort Worth... (Score:1)
The Linux job market is hot here in the Metroplex (Dallas/Fort Worth). When ever I want a new job I will just post to Monster.com and the opportunities will contact me. So, I guess they were searching for keywords as found in my resume.
My point is: this may be your last resort (whereas pray should have been your first resort :) ) since what you are looking for seems to be in short supply for the near term.
Does OSS development require special skills? (Score:3, Insightful)
It sounds like you're letting your philosphy interfere with your business goals. What specific skills do you believe are unique to Open Source development that people with proprietary product experience lack?
It seems to me that Open Source is more of a licensing philosphy than a development methodology. Are you developing using a waterfall, CMM, XP, Agile or some other approach? For example if you use XP, proprietary developers who have used it will probably be a better match than open source developers who haven't.
Re:Does OSS development require special skills? (Score:1)
Maybe he's just worried that those guys don't know CVS, Eclipse framework and so on. I would agree wit you that knowing how to use tools is less important than knowing how to debug deadlocks (which is philosophy-agnostic).
Re:Does OSS development require special skills? (Score:2)
CMM doesn't address low-level details of software development the way XP does, but it still qualifies as a methodology IMHO. For example, to be certified an organization has to have adopted a company-wide software development process that every project follows. Requiring a single process for all projects is a methodological decision.
"And maybe I'm wrong but isn't Agile a part of XP phi
Re:Does OSS development require special skills? (Score:2)
Well, you haven't identified anything in your post that uniquely applies to OSS (except the sysadmins part, I never worked at a company where they performed SW development).
"communicate effectively with peers from the projects, getting informal support from these peers"
People in the software industry have been communicating with their peers both inside and outside their companies for years. This isn't somet
this link (Score:1)
Idealist (Score:2)
Look in the mirror (Score:2)
Have a hot job, and no suitable applicants? You review your requirements and the screening process.