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Who’s Hiring Wednesday: February 10, 2016
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.
4 Ways for Women to Break Into the Tech Industry
Puget Sound Business Journal | Dana Manciagli | Feb. 1
“Macho tech culture may be driving women away, but if tech is your passion, it’s time to take a stand. The technology industry is suffering from an exodus of women who find the environment hostile and demeaning. Commentators have offered long-term solutions to this problem, but what can women do right now to build a future in tech? Many women get a foot in the door, but tech culture stomps on it. In 2008, a Harvard Business Review study found that while 41 percent of early career STEM professionals are women, 52 percent of those will eventually drop out. The researchers argued that “macho cultures,” isolation, undefined career paths, male-biased cultures of risk, and extreme work pressures like long hours drive women away.”
The 10 American Cities with the Most New Job Openings
Fortune | Anne Fisher | Feb. 9
“Employment growth is all over the map. Despite January’s hiccup in hiring, the economy has been steadily generating jobs at an annual rate of about 2%. But some cities outpaced the rest of the nation over the past 12 months, while others lagged behind…The top 10, and the number of positions they created: Dallas 112,829, San Jose 60,716, Los Angeles 159,477, Seattle 78,082, Miami 81,842, Atlanta 81,161, Orlando 50,384, San Francisco 69,967, Riverside, Ca. 50,511, and Charlotte, N.C. 41,390.”
MicaSense Raises $7.4M from Parrot to Develop New Drone Technology for Agriculture Industry
GeekWire | Taylor Soper | Feb. 8
“MicaSense, which re-located to Seattle from California about a year ago, also on Monday announced a new sensor called Sequoia that is manufactured by Parrot and is geared toward agriculture customers who use drones for more efficient crop scouting…The company is headquartered in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood and employs 14 full-time employees, which is up from just four people at this time last year. It is looking to double its headcount in 2016.”
Latest local job postings at MicaSense
Job Postings Signal Amazon Plans to Scale Up Bookstore Business
Seattle Times | Ángel González | Feb. 4
“A bevy of recent highly specialized job postings suggests Amazon.com is indeed laying the foundation for a brick-and-mortar bookstore business whose ambitions extend well beyond the University Village location it opened in November. That, or Amazon’s sole bookstore will have the most overqualified staff ever seen in a small bookshop. About a dozen postings on Amazon’s jobs website refer to Amazon Books, the team responsible for the company’s first physical store and that strives to combine ‘the benefits of offline and online book shopping.’ The positions range from senior program manager — preferred qualifications: an MBA or an advanced degree in a quantitative field — to a data engineer, a financial analyst, and curators for literary fiction, nonfiction and children’s books.”
Latest local job postings at Amazon
First Image of Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket Engine Contains Hints it will be Built in Kent
Puget Sound Business Journal | Steve Wilhelm | Feb. 3
“If Bezos’ team builds the BE-4 engines at Blue Origin’s Kent headquarters as locals hope, the production will be a significant boost to the region’s growing outer space industry…This week Blue Origin had multiple Kent job listings on its website, many of them for manufacturing-related engineers. The Florida listings are mostly for launch site developers, suggesting that the company’s manufacturing focus is Kent.”
Latest Local Job Postings at Blue Origins
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