[LA.pm] jobs available, going unfulfilled

[Mike Bourdon]

Being a contingency recruiter here in the greater LA area for 26 years, I may have some insight to this. Some of you know me personally. If I receive enough of a positive response, I would be happy to give my 2 cents.
Mike Bourdon 

--- On Wed, 9/22/10, Todd Cranston-Cuebas <geekhunter at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Todd Cranston-Cuebas <geekhunter at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LA.pm] jobs available, going unfulfilled
To: "Jordan Schwartz" <jordan247 at gmail.com>
Cc: "Los Angeles Perl Mongers" <Losangeles-pm at pm.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 1:08 PM


Jordan notes that the demand is clearly not limited to perl and I agree.
 There is a huge push for hiring that is occurring and you're seeing 
that at the user groups, job postings, recruiter-sponsored events, etc. The question is... are these jobs being filled?



On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jordan Schwartz <jordan247 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, I'm really curious.  Why is this?



The demand is for more than just perl slots.  i have seen

recruiters at the LA Java UG, and at a PHP meetups for months.



Also the demand is for more then just programmer / developer types,

the UNIX User Association of Socal jobs list , uuasc.org, has been

seeing a steady flow of Sysadmin postions, and recruiters at the meetings.



Additionally the well attended SoCal Devops meetups are a driven

by recruiting.



I think its that business need to have an internet presence if they have any

chance of being successfull and L.A. is fairly diverse with Aerospace,

entertainment,

Misc. Tech, etc.



There may have been some pent up demand after the financial services /

home loan meltdown

a few year back that put me on the market and there is enough new

business and upgrades to

keep the demand for skilled labor where it should be.



Jordan



On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Randal L. Schwartz

<merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:

>

> Twice in the last two days, two different organizations in the greater

> LA area approached me to help them find folks to fill mid-level Perl

> hacking slots (varying between IT and webdev).  They both said "it's

> getting *very* hard to find people."

>

> Now, I'm really curious.  Why is this?

>

> Is it a supply problem, or a demand problem, or both?

>

> As in, are there fewer Perl programmers here but the same demand?

>

> Or the same (or more) Perl programmers here, but even more demand?

>

> Or something else entirely?

>

> By the way... I'm not trying to make a buck out of this.  I'm just

> trying to help people who ask me to help, and I'm also genuinely curious

> about the state of hiring in the Perl community, particulary in LA since

> I'm also working here for a while.

>

> (I'll also be sending this message to the other local PM groups, so if

> you see it multiple times, I'm sorry.)

>

>

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