Part of the WTIA’s mission is to grow a strong and sustainable workforce, which means we’re passionate about keeping local talent plugged into our state’s technology industry. In addition to our job board, every Wednesday we’ll be keeping you connected to Washington’s job market with the latest in local hiring news.

 

Groupon Launches New Travel App Developed by Seattle Team, Plans to Add up to 100 More Seattle Employees

Puget Sound Business Journal | Stephanie Forshee | Nov. 10

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It seems fitting that Groupon’s newest app, called Getaways, wasn’t developed by employees at the company’s headquarters in Chicago, but rather by the engineers based at its Seattle offices…When the company first added a presence in Seattle in August 2012 it had a few more than 20 employees at its offices at 505 Union Station. Groupon now occupies the second, third and sixth floors of the building with more than 200 employees. “We’re looking to grow by about another 40 to 50 percent,” Halliwell said. “We’ve found Seattle to be a great market for us to locate and grow these important Groupon functions because of the depth of available engineering talent and the entrepreneurial culture of the city.”

 

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New Port of Seattle CEO Sets Lofty goal: Add 100,000 Jobs in Region

Puget Sound Business Journal | Sarah Aitchison | Nov. 10

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Ted Fick, the newly appointed CEO for the Port of Seattle, announced his goal to bring 100,000 new jobs to the Puget Sound region Monday at the Washington Council on International Trade Conference at the Westin in downtown Seattle. The Port of Seattle manages both the port and Sea-Tac Airport. Fick hinted job creation could come from major growth at the airport. Both passengers and air cargo are growing rapidly at Sea-Tac, Fick said. He anticipates passengers at Sea-Tac will double in the near future.

 

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Coding Education Programs Expand In U.S. As IT Jobs Market Flourishes

TechCrunch | Jonathan Shieber | Nov. 10

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/10/coding-education-programs-expand-in-u-s-as-it-jobs-market-flourishes/

Unemployment in the U.S. is declining, as demand for new jobs picks up across the country, and nowhere is the need more acutely felt than in tech industry. With its heady mix of Horatio Alger rags-to-riches success stories, its emphasis on individualism and privileging hard work and education, no industry is a better poster child for post-industrial American capitalism than the startup world of coders, marketers, and salesman. But underneath the headline-grabbing startup economy and its Silicon Valley billionaires are thousands of programming jobs at companies ranging from Avis to Winn-Dixie. It’s those jobs that are the backbone of the tech economy, and they need to be filled. That’s why hundreds of continuing education programs — startup bootcamps, general assemblies and codecademies — have cropped up across the country to train (or in some cases re-train) workers whose jobs had either been innovated or rationalized out of existence during the recession in 2008.

 

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Some of the Most Sought-After Tech Jobs Don’t Require a College Degree

Bloomberg Businessweek | Dune Lawrence| Nov. 5

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-05/how-to-get-a-job-in-the-technology-industry-without-a-college-degree

After a spate of high-profile hacks this year, companies should be hiring more workers devoted to protecting their networks, yet many aren’t. Part of the problem: There aren’t enough people who fit the bill…Colleges and universities are responding by creating cybersecurity degree programs (a report by the Ponemon Institute in February came up with a list of the top ones, based on a rating of 183 schools). But even these programs can’t produce enough bodies to fill the expanding need, so some companies suggest looking below college level. Symantec (SYMC) is one. The company is putting $2 million into a pilot project to train urban youth for entry-level jobs in cybersecurity. Based on a study released last year by the Abell Foundation, Symantec says more than 300,000 jobs are going begging, 20 percent of which could be filled by individuals with no college degree.

 

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