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Where to Advertise for Open Source Job Openings?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the plugged-into-the-network dept.

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?"

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  1. Where? by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How about in your .sig for starters?

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    It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
  2. Dice has turned into a free-for-all by IANAAC · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I no longer work in the IT industry, however, I still have my resume up on dice.com. I still get a lot of inquiries (10-15 a week), but NONE are from direct hire employers. They are all recruiters. A nd if you look at the actual job descriptions, all these different recruiters are vying to fill the same position.

    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 to all possible matches.