Part-time Perl Developer Position based Reading, UK

[Arife Vural]

Position is going to be minimum 2 days, it is going to be fix days during
the weeks.

Arife

On 23 May 2011 11:21, Jacqui Caren-home <jacqui.caren at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> On 23/05/2011 10:03, Denny wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 08:46 +0100, Arife Vural wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/JobSearch/JobDetails.aspx?JobId=50455325&Keywords=websense
>>>
>>
>> For a part-time job, I would expect the advert to say how many
>> hours/days per week are involved.
>>
>
> When hours/days are not mentioned I assume they want a small number of
> odd hours and some on-call stuff - without having to pay a FT staffer
> an on-call bonus :-/
>
>
>  Also; salary ranges are really very useful to everyone involved in the
>> recruitment process.  Not specifying even a vague/wide one is incredibly
>> frustrating and occasionally off-putting to potential applicants.  If
>> your company is generous (as both the advert and Arife's email suggest),
>> then it'd be to your advantage to include some numbers here.
>>
>
> +1 Reading is an *expensive* place - the salary would determine whether
> you are going to get local script kiddies or a professional applying.
>
> Also no mention of "out of hours" arrangements but lots of inferred OOH
> work.
> I assume the "part time" bit is to avoid having to pay OH 'on-call' bonus
> normally paid to full time staff doing on-call work.
>
> Given the workload, I would have thought they would have been better off
> hiring support specialists like wessex networks - or my employer :-)
> That way they get access to a team. Handing over the keys to your business
> critical systems to a just hired "part timer" sounds risky at best.
>
>
>  PS: Also also, that advert is _badly_ in need of proof-reading:
>>
>
> It could be intentional. :-)
>
>