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From:
Dave Rolsky
Date:
January 22, 2007 13:22
Subject:
Re: annual job stats?
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.64.0701221521270.30093@urth.org
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Uri Guttman wrote:

> and you can see the monthly postings since may 2001 at:
>
> 	http://jobs.perl.org/about/stats
>
> dunno what more you need. trivial to download that and pipe it into a
> graphing thingie of your choice. a quick eyeballing shows solid growth
> in each year and never a major long term downslide in postings per
> month. part of this is due to repeated posts
> for the same unfilled jobs and also the word keeps spreading about the
> site and list. more agencies and companies seem to be using it.
>
> the only downtrend i see is that december seems to always be a
> low month but that makes sense.

These stats aren't the best option. When a job expires and gets renewed, 
we update the date of the posting, so jobs move from month to month if 
they're reposted.

brian d foy produced some stats based on mail to the jobs@perl.org list 
which are probably better. It seemed like job postings have only gone up 
in the past few years. Whether that's the market or simply that 
jobs.perl.org has better market _share_ is impossible to know.


-dave

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