finding FreeBSD sysadmins

Liam J. Foy liamfoy at sepulcrum.org
Wed Mar 22 18:51:12 UTC 2006


On 13:18, Wed 22 Mar 06, Omar Thameen wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm having difficulty finding FreeBSD sysadmins to fill a position,
> and I was hoping y'all might have some suggestions.
> 
> I've recently moved to the Philadelphia area after 10 years in New
> York, and I just can't find where the BSD folks are hanging out.
> Specifically, I'm looking to hire a (Free)BSD systems administrator,
> but am getting very little response from local resources like
> Craigslist, the Philadelphia Linux Users Group (couldn't find a
> Philly-BUG), and area schools.  Sadly, if you search for "philadelphia
> freebsd," the top results are my job posts (the company is BIGLIST).
> Of course, I've also posted to freebsd-jobs, but got only a couple out
> of state/country replies.
> 
> So, my questions are these:
> 
> - Where do you look for job openings?
> 
> - Any other suggestions for finding candidates?  I'm trying Dice,
>   but have only gotten one (poor) reply in a week.  Hotjobs and
>   Monster have been mentioned to have a high ratio of unqualified
>   responses.  Any similar or contrary experiences?
> 
> Omar

If only I could work remotely! =(. I'm a poor student. On another point,
I can understand what you said about Monster - I've heard similar
stories.

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		Liam J. Foy
		<liamfoy at sepulcrum.org>


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