If the $11,000 wrapped in bacon at Scopely, or $5,000 for a new hire at BetterWorks isn’t enough to convince you that the tech hiring market is going gangbusters, how about an all expenses, round trip flight to LA, limo and date with an attractive actress or actor to join a startup as an engineer? [...]
I’ve mentioned this a few times in the last few weeks, but — despite what you see about layoffs and the economy — there seems to be a great hunger for employees at many local Southern California companies. Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media (Richard’s best known as having been the Chairman of MySpace) said today [...]
Still worried about your job in this economy? Don’t worry, if you’re a good software engineer or software manager. I mentioned this before, but it seems like good technical folks are in high demand here — even in this economy, where things have shifted into layoff mode. I am still hearing from recruiters having a [...]
Anyone remember that complaint about “there aren’t any experienced executives available here in the job market?” Well — thanks in no small part do the market downturn — it seems to me that anyone who can’t find a good, experienced (ie 2+ success) executive willing to join their startup now isn’t looking hard enough. In [...]
I don’t know how many people remember the “pink slip parties” during the Internet bust, which were various networking events designed to help the many people who had been laid off. Interestingly enough, there’s a group starting up a new networking group (Pink Slip Mixers) in Santa Monica, which is the first group of that [...]
The last few years has been notable in the lack of major cutbacks (or at least, attention to layoffs) at local companies. The go-go environment has spawned far more companies than are being lost, and far more employment and jobs created than losses. However, I noted two stories today which we haven’t seen much of [...]
In more proof the Internet is collapsing the world, here’s an interesting item on the Orange County Register outsourcing layout/editing to a New Delhi, India company. Add that to the list of easily outsourced professions: software engineers, Hollywood writers, radiologists, and investment bankers.
The AeA, the high tech industry association formerly known as the American Electronics Association, released their annual Cybercities numbers today, which tries to count the number of high tech workers in different cities. The report is always interesting as a look at how big an area is or isn’t in the high tech industry. However, [...]
This morning’s funding news for Row 44 – a Westlake Village manufacturer of equipment for providing Wi-Fi in airplanes — is a reminder of what I’ve long regarded as one of Southern California’s biggest strengths: its diversity of people, industries, and companies. While many people might think of Southern California on mostly consumer internet and [...]
Some quick pointers to jobs recently posted on our Jobs page: Panache is looking for an ActionScript developer in Los Angeles Linkline, in Ontario, is looking for a Senior Account Executive for the company’s telecom serviecs If you know Microsoft ERP tools, WhiteStar USA has an opening for a Microsoft Dynamics NAV Implementer. Finally, if [...]
Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com.
