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Happy Thanksgiving & Thank You!
Greetings!
There's a lot to be thankful for and no time more fitting than now to let you know who much we appreciate your business and confidence.
Thank you!
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Staffing & Employment News
The BLS statistics were encouraging. Nonfarm payrolls were increased by 195,000 jobs in October. The private sector created 151,000 of these jobs, marking the 10th consecutive month of job growth. Almost 1/3 of these increases were in "professional and business services" specifically in professional and technical, computer systems design, management and technical consulting, administrative and waste services, and employment services. Employment in temporary help services also continued to increase in October. This month's gain was 35,000; increasing 451,000 since September 2009 lows. Staffing job trends serve as an employment indicator, particularly when recovering from a recession. The ASA index bottomed out at the end of June 2009, but has grown almost continuously ever since. Let's hope that the staffing bell weather rings in a growth rate that keeps the positive momentum going and meets our recovery expectations.  |
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High Tech Job Trends
"A sure sign we are moving in the right direction."
The movement in the Tech sector employment is in the right direction. The TechServe Index shows a year over year increase, and the CEO, Mark Roberts, reports "increasing demand" ... "a sure sign we are moving in the right direction." Dice CEO reports that recruitment activity is up about 50 percent since the lows in mid-2009, and rising steadily in 2010. The positions in highest demand are for Digital Marketers, UX Designers, SEO specialists, Social Media specialists, Network Administrators, Applications & Web Developers, Support Professionals, Java developers, Database Administrators, Virtualization specialists and Project Managers.
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Close Your Candidate 
Make Your Offer Bullet-Proof; Close the Candidate From the Get-Go
Hiring is costly and time-consuming. You need to be closing your candidate from the get-go. The hiring process must include selling yourself and your company. You want to choose the right talent to fit your needs and company culture, but don't forget that you are being interviewed as well. By the time you make your offer, you want to be ready to seal the deal.
Read the article.
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When is the Best Time to Look for a New Job?
By Beth Cliff, Technical Recruiter at Redfish Technology
The old adage follows that the best time to look for a job is when you already have one. While this may still hold true, the reality of today's economic climate dictates that many excellent candidates are finding themselves unemployed and in the midst of a job search. Whatever your current employment situation may be, when looking for a new job there are pluses and minuses to being employed or unemployed. Ultimately, you are looking to improve upon your current role, so the best time to look for a job is when you are personally invested in the process.
Read the article.
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Top Talent
We have the privilege of working with some exceptional talent. Take a look at some folks who are currently looking, or contact us to recruit top talent that may not be actively looking.
High Tech Sectors:
- Senior Consultant, Enterprise Software Space. 7+ years in a client facing consulting role. Very comfortable with GTM strategy and writing technical documents. MBA from Cornell. Lives in the Bay Area.
- Senior Product Manager, Networking/Wireless. Great company tenure, technical by nature and has his MBA. Moving to NJ.
- Account Executive, SaaS. Energetic, hungry sales candidate. Comfortable with full sales cycle. Has always met or exceed quota. Lives in LA.
- Senior Java Lead. Experience with SaaS platforms and web services technologies. BS/MS from IIT, MBA. Looking for Lead/Principal or Managerial role.
- Storage and Network QA Engineer. Scripting with Perl and Shell. Bay area resident, open to roles in California.
- Senior SW Engineer. Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science- 6 years of industry software engineering and research experience in search applications - Java, Perl, MS SQL, Lucene, Hadoop, Linux, Maven, Subversion, Xpath, Spring, Hibernate. MS in CS from the University of Maryland; Green Card. Open to the Metro DC area.
- Senior iPhone Developer. 16 years of experience designing and coding applications and kernel extensions under Mac OS X, Cocoa Touch (iPhone OS), Linux & UNIX, and "classic" Mac OS (8 & 9). BS in CS from U. of Michigan; Masters coursework in CS at Stanford. Open to relocation.
- Front-end developer - 5 years of experience - C/C++, Perl, Ruby (on Rails with HAML and SASS), PHP, SQL (MySQL, Oracle), Javascript, ActionScript 3.0. BS in Electronic Media, Arts and Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (magna cum laude). US Citizen open to relocation.
To find specific talent, recruit where you can't and secure other human resources and sourcing services, contact Redfish Technology today.
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November 11 is Veterans Day!
"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
-Michel de Montaigne
"The more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war."
-Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Beth Cliff
Beth Cliff,
High Tech Recruiter - Engineering,
Redfish Technology
Beth joined Redfish in 2006, and currently heads up the High Tech Engineering recruiting on the East coast. She began her recruiting career in 1995, and continues to find her job challenging and rewarding. Originally from Ohio, Beth graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder with a BA in Psychology.
Read Beth's article "When is the Best Time to Look for a New Job?"
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Economic Recovery
It takes about 5 percent economic growth to reduce unemployment by 1 percent.
If the rate of job growth continues at October's rate, the economy will achieve the 5% (Dec. 20070 pre-recession unemployment rates in roughly 20 years.
Last Four Recessions and their Durations according to NBER:
Dec 2007 -Jun 2009
18 months
Mar 2001 - Nov 2001
8 months
Jul 1990 - Mar 1991
8 months
Jul 1981 - Nov 1982
16 months
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Original Articles
Redfish Technology strives to be different and to make a difference.
In addition to providing industry and human resources related articles on the "Resources" section of our website, and in our blogs, our recruiters also like to make personal contact and provide their insights on subjects that are part of our everyday lives in staffing.
Check out the Redfish Team's original articles. Let us know what you think!
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Redfish Technology
High Tech & Green Nationwide Recruiters
416 S. Main Street, PO Box 700, Hailey, ID 83333 - Tel. 208-788-8260
360 Thames Street, Newport, RI 02840 - Tel. 401-398-2929
142 N. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035 - Tel. 408-719-0200
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