[cookiecaper]

>I think if you're really good your jobseeking process is less likely to involve seeking out companies and more likely to involve saying "I am available for work" in a semi-public fashion, but that is another discussion altogether.

This is interesting. Do you think one has to have a high-profile outlet to qualify as "really good", and when you say "really good", what kind of percentile are you talking? Do you mean, like, exceedingly better than average, or do you mean "actually" good, instead of one of the mass-resume-senders?

I think I'm an OK programmer in the disciplines I know, but I don't really maintain a blog and as far as I know I don't have a bunch of regular readers of my profile here.

Do you expect every person worthy of hire to be able to just say "I need work" and automatically get offers?

[eru]

Just for the amusement value [1]: My company is looking for programmers. Or more specifically we are looking for people to work at our office in Cambrigde, UK, of Citrix. Almost everything we do is open source and my very own team is hacking with Ocaml (but the other teams us more `normal' languages).

Please drop me a line if you are interested. My mail is [e-mail].

[1] I was going to submit a "Tell HN" or something like this anyway. You can also find some more text on our recent post on the Haskell mailing list (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/177...).Of course Citrix.com also has some job offers, but like someone said, going directly is better for you, since your CV does not land on a company-wide pile.

P.S. I got my job (and some other interviews) through contacts I made at the ICFP 2009 conference.

[arghnoname]

The networking thing sucks if you're not really interesting in networking but are fairly good at the actual job you want to get.

Social people who are good at getting recognized and being liked have an advantage. I've seen relatively high profile people not be quite up to their billing, and vice versa. As someone who is quite low-profile, I'm not sure what the solution is short of biting the bullet and putting yourself out there.