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Hiring Strategies H1 & Relocation
High Tech Trends: Software Industry
Cleantech Trends: 15 Tips for Accelerators
Women in the Tech Sectors
Best Cities to Work In
More Companies Hiring MBAs
Immigration a Solution for Growth?
Hiring Season Begins with Tech Sector Recruiting Strong
Recruiting Priorities - Hot Opportunities
FEATURED PLACEMENT
 
Andrew Crocker,
UI/UX Designer - Mobile App Tools

 
Andrew Crocker
 
The co-founder and CEO of this innovative mobile application tools company, Apptentive, reached out to Redfish Technology to find superstar Seattle user experience/user interface talent. This startup's mission is to make it easy for app developers to communicate with their app customers to increase ratings and higher retention. As a 2012 member of the TechStars family and the first company in Seattle to ever receive funding from Google Ventures, attracting talent wasn't Apptentive's issue. Redfish undertook to find the right talent to both fit in and complement the skills and dynamic of this amazing team. Furthermore the ideal candidate would be a natural fit with the engineering personalities that make up the team and customer base.

Redfish handpicked Andrew Crocker for his leadership in responsive website and game interface design at several startups and small companies. Andrew has an entrepreneurial spirit and solid experience in design and development. As a senior web designer, Andrew worked closely with the staff to concept, design, and develop great interactive sites based on Drupal and HTML5 standards, and prior to that as senior web designer he played a central role in the creation of the company's powerful & easy to use interface. His visual and creative (Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and Illustration from Colorado State University) direction parallels his web development savvy. He is a strong team collaborator with excellent communication skills to boot! Andrew aspires to craft the future of customer interactions in a mobile world.

"Logan and Redfish were always there for me.  They helped me navigate past the details so I could focus on the great position I was applying for." - Andrew Crocker


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REDFISH MONTHLY NEWSLETTER

September 2013

Greetings!    

 

Labor Day has come and gone. That means that it is fourth quarter hiring season, and we are gearing up for a busy quarter. Give us a shout now if you are hiring individual contributors, building a team, or upgrading your career.

 

- the Redfish Team

WHY YOU WANT H1 VISAS AND RELOCATION
Hiring StrategiesLogan Knight
By Logan Knight IT Recruiter
  
Yes, it's a pain in the butt and it'll cost you, but both are winning talent acquisition strategies.

Hiring, like any investment, has up-front costs. Differentiating your employment offer is key to winning tech talent. Your talent acquisition strategies should include relocation &/or H-1 employees despite the additional upfront costs.
  
HIGH TECH TRENDS  
The Software Industry

 
PwC's Technology Institute's report the Global 100 Software Leaders investigates the trends that are shaping the software industry.

 

SaaS (software-as-a-service), mobile device proliferation, consumerization of IT are trends that are forcing software companies to re-think everything about product development, pricing, marketing, and delivery. Competition for the talent in this evolving market place has reached the proportions of a "talent war".
 

Kachan 15 Tips
CLEANTECH TRENDS
15 Tips for Clean/Green Tech Accelerator Success
 

Business incubators, also called accelerators, are designed to support the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services. Dedicated to startup and early-stage companies, technology incubators in particular have been the spring boards for the bleeding edge Silicon Valley companies such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Logitech, Intuit, Sun Microsystems, and PayPal.

 

Clean Tech Incubators have become an important and vibrant mechanism for launching clean technology ventures. The San Jose Environmental Business Cluster's hottest areas are in three areas predominantly: energy generation through solar use, water purification technology and systems, and recycling.

 

Patricia O'Hear
Patricia O'Hear, Software Engineer
WOMEN IN THE TECH SECTOR 
  
Women hold 56% of professional jobs, but only 25% of IT jobs. Women are the minority of executives at Fortune 500 tech companies (11%) and even less found tech start-ups (5%).

Even though more women (68%) earn a Bachelor's degree, Women only account for 18% of those earning Computer and Info Science degrees in 2009.
  

When they do choose the tech sector, women's pay is still not on par with men's. The three best paid jobs are computer programmers, computer & information systems managers, and computer software engineers however women earn 5%, 18%, and 9% less respectively as compared to their male counterparts.

 

THE BEST CITIES TO WORK IN
Glassdoor Employment Satisfaction Report Card

What are the best cities to live in in terms of employment satisfaction? Considering compensation, benefits, senior management, company outlook and hiring, the Bay Area and Seattle triple tied for first place, and if you are a software engineer - you are in demand!
  
MORE COMPANIES ARE HIRING MBA GRADS IN 2013
Hiring Trends  

The fortunes of recent MBA graduates were rocked when the 2008 recession hit and employers froze hiring and significantly scaled back growth estimates. Fortunately, the economy has rebounded and jobs for MBA graduates have followed. In 2013, companies around the globe stated their intention to hire a new crop of business school graduates, reports the Graduate Management Council, indicating that tides have changed for employees considering earning an MBA.


IS IMMIGRATION A SOLUTION FOR GROWTH?
Workforce Immigrations Trends

 

Reports show that immigration secures huge economic benefits through job creation and increased GDP. The tech talent crunch has been a persistent story throughout the recession and recovery, American companies need access to highly skilled international workers in order to compete. If we do not allow highly skilled foreign workers into the US, they will contribute to another country's economy instead of ours, and America would risk losing its preeminent place as the world's business powerhouses, and the Fortune 500 companies of the future. 

 

RECRUITING, STAFFING & EMPLOYMENT NEWS 
Employees
Hiring Season Begins with Tech Sector Recruiting Strong, Overall Jobs Numbers Waffling

August hiring was fast and furious, perhaps a prelude to the anticipated strong tech hiring season of Q4 to come. Hot industries included Gamification, e-Learning, Enterprise Systems & Network Management, Mobile Financial, and Cloud sectors.  

RECRUITING PRIORITIES / HOT OPPORTUNITIEShttp://www.redfishtech.com/catch_of_the_day/category/employment/

This Week's Priorities:
      
This week our top recruiting priorities are for ASP.Net Engineer and Technical Support Engineer - 3D Modeling; Senior Mobile Javascript Developer - Mobile Video Advertising; Mobile Product UI-UX Designer - Social Music Platform; Solutions Consultant - Enterprise Content Management and more    
  
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