Comment Hiring (Score 4, Interesting) 536
Most of the people who know Perl well already have jobs, and aren't looking to change.
We tried hiring someone to help me offload some of my work, and one the task I've gotten behind on is updating & maintaining some Perl code.
We had one person who I felt could've jumped in, but that management didn't like (as he had previously worked here, and left). The rest were folks who we'd have to train on OO, closures, and other higher level concepts.
If this hasn't been offered as a 12-month position, maybe we could've found someone. If we had advertised it as a general programming job, and then taught someone Perl, maybe it would've been gone better for us.
With trendy languages, you at least get people willing to apply -- even if it's the case that they don't grok the language, you at least get someone you can train up.