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The Wall Street Journal: Tech Companies Aren’t the Only Ones Competing for Tech Workers
The tech-job openings at companies in the Management Top 250 say a lot about how innovative these businesses are. This year’s Management Top 250—a ranking of the most effectively run companies based on the principles of the late management guru Peter Drucker—incorporates a new indicator to arrive at its management scorecard: data from labor-analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies.
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Ozy: The Networking Platform Bigger Than LinkedIn for College Students
More than 700 universities and 300,000 companies use Handshake, which has surpassed LinkedIn as the largest network for job-seeking college students in the U.S. (Garrett) Lord hasn’t lost sight of their mission: With 43 percent of new college graduates underemployed, according to a May report from Burning Glass Technologies, he created Handshake as a way to directly connect students with hundreds of thousands of employers, giving them access to opportunities they may never have had otherwise.
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Wall Street Journal: Amazon, Google Poised for Race to Hire High-Tech Talent
Amazon and Google are planning to recruit thousands of employees in New York City, pitting the two against one another and other businesses for already-scarce talent. The competition for talent will be stiff, but the two companies each have some distinct requirements that set them apart from other employers—and from each other, according to an analysis that labor-analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies conducted for the Journal.
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eFinancialCareers: The Wall Street banks that are most desperate for tech talent right now
While most large financial firms are relocating back-office positions to cheaper locations, New York is still home to tens of thousands of tech jobs at big banks, particularly senior-level and revenue-generating roles. Still, not all banks are equal. Some are much hungrier to add New York-based developers and engineers than others.
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The Wall Street Journal: Some 43% of College Grads Are Underemployed in First Job
On average … 43% of college graduates are underemployed in their first job. “When we are producing graduates who wind up in jobs that don’t require college degrees, that’s a failure to launch for the student and a failure to deliver for the program,” said Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass and co-author of the report.
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CompTIA: CompTIA Cyberprovinces™ Report Details Growth of Nearly 45,000 Net New Technology Jobs Across Canada
The amount of tech talent in major Canadian cities is drawing employers to Canada, according to CompTIA’s analysis of data from Statistics Canada, EMSI, Burning Glass Technologies Labor Insights, and other sources.
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