Good people can be hard to find…

Now, recruiting can be a challenge any day of the week but the US Government certainly has their work cut out for them… The blog rolls were well and truly oiled up when the $240K a year AJAX job post started to circulate in late July, with a start date for mid August. By now, of course, the successful candidate is well and truly entrenched (forgive the pun) in their new Iraqi accommodation and coming to grips with their role supporting field deployment and maintenance of a new database application to be used by the Army units there. Yes, that’s right: US$20,000 a month. Full time for twelve months and tax free. Sounded too good to be true – but the neighbourhood may have left a bit to be desired.

And yet, here we are, just a few short weeks later throwing out the net ourselves. Okay, so we’re not prepared to splash that kind of cash around but we do have an opening for some quality people – a php developer, an SEM campaign manager for our PPC division and a subeditor / web producer / content manager. We’re growing pretty fast! And now based out of shmicko purpose-built offices just a hop skip and a jump from Bondi Beach we’re hoping we won’t face the same hard-sell the Americans have had… Know anyone who might be interested? Shoot them this jobs link. And here’s more detail about that Ajax job post – just in case you need to see it to believe it…