From diona at studio12a.com  Mon May  7 17:34:20 2007
From: diona at studio12a.com (Diona Kidd)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 20:34:20 -0400
Subject: [Charlotte.PM] Google Anyone? [ Job Opportunity ]
Message-ID: <0F66B050-038E-4060-8EFA-E430D15497A4@studio12a.com>

Hi everyone,

I was contacted today by a Google [1] recruiter looking specifically  
for Open Source web developers. I also made a contact with the  
recruiting staff at Google last year at YAPC [2] during the job fair  
and I believe they will be attending YAPC again this year to recruit. *

Since I'm having way too much fun working in our own Open Source web  
development firm, Knowmad Technologies, I immediately mentioned our  
Perl group. The recruiter is very interested in skilled, Open Source  
web developers. Considering they were recruiting at YAPC last year,  
I'm sure Perl carries some weight.

If anyone is job hunting or curious and feels they are up to the  
Google challenge, please contact me so I can pass the recruiter's  
information along to you and introduce you. I imagine that a software  
engineer job would require relocation since the Lenoir location of  
Google is a data center, but I'm not 100% sure.

Also, I believe the recruiter found me through the Software  
Contractor's Guild [3] (and Google'd me). It's a $20 fee to post your  
resume at the SCGuild website and has been very beneficial, in my  
experience. Even if you're not job hunting, it appears to be a great  
place to be represented. I suppose a blog [4] doesn't hurt either. ;)

On another note, Knowmad Technologies is sponsoring and attending  
this year's YAPC.

If you haven't made your plans yet...what are you waiting for? The  
North American YAPC been a great benefit to both William and I  
professionally and personally. We've met some great personalities  
(Richard Dice, Randal Schwartz, Larry Wall, Casey West, etc.) and  
other exceptional experts from the Perl community, been recruited  
from the most innovative online companies (we're not going  
anywhere :) and made contacts from all over the globe. Needless to  
say, we've very excited to be sponsoring this year's event. Join us  
and the rest of the Perl community in Houston, June 24th-27th, and  
we'll treat you to lunch or a drink. ;)

* This is my understanding from my conversation with the contact at  
Google but is not confirmed by the Perl Foundation or YAPC organizers.

[1] - www.google.com/intl/en/about.html
[2] - http://conferences.mongueurs.net/yn2007/schedule
[3] - http://scguild.org/
[4] - http://www.studio12a.com/

Regards,

Diona Kidd
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Knowmad Technologies
diona at knowmad.com
http://www.knowmad.com
P: 704.343.9330
F: 704.343.9353

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