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• Environment and entertainment value (Score:1)

  by Denny (5407)

  When I'm looking for work, I look at the company to see if it would be a fun place to work - casual dress, flexitime, a generally friendly atmosphere. I also look at whether the work is going to be reasonably interesting or not.
• I may be prejudiced... (Score:1)

  by sigzero (5768)

  If the ad says "PERL", I ignore it.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jplindstrom (594)

    Doesn't have to be bad.
    
    It may be the HR department who messed things up and didn't involve the dev team enough. Which in itself might be a bad sign, but nothing even close to being a showstopper.
    • Re:I may be prejudiced… (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      Yeah, by itself, that does not say anything. It immediately makes me suspicious of other warning signs, though.
      • Re:I may be prejudiced… (Score:1)

        by sigzero (5768)

        It immediately makes me suspicious of other warning signs, though.

        Yes, I should have qualified it a bit more.
• What makes a good or bad Perl job advert? (Score:1)

  by Adrian (66)

  You might want to read Ovid's piece [perl.org] and my rant [perlmonks.org] on the topic.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    Please repost that rant here!

    You don’t write enough here anyway :-), and that rant’s worth being a bit easier to dig back out than a node on PerlMonks.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Adrian (66)

      Please repost that rant here!

      done. [perl.org]
• what do you do with Perl (Score:1)

  by Lecar_red (5694)

  I hate when I read a job posting and I have no idea how the company uses Perl. The python job site has a "what is Python used for" and I think that is really important part of the posting... since its on a Perl board.

  Include information about location of candidates such as if you are willing to pay relocation or if you are willing to talk to candidates from other areas. I may be willing to move for a cool job without the company paying for it.

  I agree with Ovid's past post that including a salary rang