The best place to post job descriptions of open positions for perl developers is at jobs.perl.org. This is the main website for people looking for perl work and looking to fill perl jobs. It's an invaluable resource, and local developers check it all the time. The job postings also show up on our local jobs page.

If the position is local to the Kansas City area, you may also want to have the description posted on our mailing list. Since you can't post to the list unless you're subscribed, you should send them on to the group moderator: Andrew Moore <amoore at cpan dot org> and he will forward them to the rest of the list.

To improve your odds odds of developing interest from qualified local candidates, here are some things that may help you out:

• Tell us as much about the company as possible. Since you may not want to mention the company name, at least explain how large the company is and what industry it is in.
• Tell us as much about the team as possible. Is it a large team that has been around for a while? Is it a small and new team that you're looking for someone to lead?
• Tell as much about the project as possible? Is this a new application that you need someone to design and implement from scratch? Is it an old application that needs to have some large features added to it? Is this mostly maintenance programming?
• Tell as much as you can about the code itself. Can you tell us how many lines of code it is? Does it follow any well-defined coding standards? Is it object oriented? Does it run on linux or windows? Under apache, and maybe mod_perl?
• Can you describe the ideal candidate?
• Why should I take this position?

If you can address as many of these points as possible, you will have better luck receiving interest to your job posting.