[wellylug] Finding Linux Skills

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 10:13 +1300, Rob Giltrap wrote:
> With hair starting to grey I'm not as hip and cool in the social 
> networking scene as I should be, but I'm fairly convinced that they old 
> school way of hiring people through recruitment agencies is no longer 
> the best way to get to tech savvy Linux people.

Correct, recruitment agencies are next useless - many don't even have a
clue what my skillset is, I've been told several times to "go to uni"
despite my background and skills being in high demand.



> So my question is... where do the hip young linux peeps hang out these 
> days if you wanted to talk to them about a career in the Linux world?

Social networks - twitter is particularly popular with younger geeks -
and conferences - things like kiwicon and linux.conf.au are a great way
of finding people genuinely interested and excited about technology.

Most of the "hip young linux peeps" I know, I've meet through the
above. :-)


But there does seem to be massive shortages of skilled Linux engineers -
universities seem to be turning on .net & java developers without
stopping, but linux engineers seem mostly to be self-driven people and
are much rarer. :-/

regards,
jethro

-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com
www.amberdms.com
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