Good Reasons to Use Niche Job Boards
Isaac Mendelson
The rise of local and niche job boards over the past 5 years is no accident. They tend to cost much less than the big national sites while providing a more targeting recruitment experience. In short, they work. It's all about their professional focus and quality results they deliver. There are niche job boards for nearly every industry and locale.
U.S. Wireless Market Penetration Passes 100 Percent
According to a new study of the U.S. cellular phone market, the number of devices in use has effectively reached 100 percent market penetration. In his second quarter 2010 update on the state of the U.S. wireless industry, Chetan Sharma reports that the number of wireless accounts in the country has reached 95 percent penetration -- but excluding those younger than 5 years old, it exceeds 100 percent.
U.S. Job Market Overview 2010
Job seekers in 2010 will continue to face a difficult job market, although conditions may improve a bit by the end of the year. Many types of employers are restructuring and downsizing thanks to the deep financial crisis of 2007-2009. Job seekers who want good positions will be forced to be better prepared and to do better research than in the boom years of the recent past. They will also have to work harder to find a good job.
Employment Data Gives Cause for Optimism About Engineering Rebound
Leaders of IEEE-USA’s Career and Workforce Policy Committee (CWPC) say they are cautiously optimistic about signs of recovery in American engineering labor markets, rebounding from the severe recession that has plagued the U.S. and world economies over the past two years.
Employment Up for U.S. Electrical Engineers and Computer Professionals
WASHINGTON (27 April 2010) — In what could be a positive sign of recovery for the U.S. economy, employment in three high-tech job categories — electrical and electronics engineers; software engineers; and computer scientists and systems analysts — returned to levels last seen in 2008, according to data released this month by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Is the Future of US Technology at Risk?
Too much emphasis has been placed on lawyers and stock brokers instead of cultivating engineers and scientists. What will the United States have to export in the coming years? Production is already gone while technology, science and research are also diminishing…
RF testing market should expand in 2010
The convergence of technologies has increased opportunities and challenges for vendors of RF test equipment.
Sivakumar Narayanaswamy, Industry Analyst, Measurement & Instrumentation Practice, Frost & Sullivan, www.frost.com -- Test & Measurement World, 2/1/2010 2:00:00 AM
On the RF technology testing front, a fresh approach to testing is necessary due to the rapid development and growth of new communication technologies such as LTE. Moreover, the convergence of technologies, while enabling the integration of more applications, has also increased opportunities as well as challenges for vendors of RF test equipment. In 2010, the need to develop and test handsets to meet the extreme performance requirements of LTE networks will accelerate due to increased deployments of these networks.
Women in Engineering
According to EngineerSalary.com there was a significant growth surge in high technology industries, occupations, and educational preparation for these occupations in the late 1990’s, and the future appears to hold outstanding opportunities for employment, and personal career growth, for women in this sector.
Engineering Jobs: Hiring and Salary Outlook for 2010
“Compared to 2009, we think 2010 will be better,” says Kurt Rippelmeyer, industry principal for engineering and energy at staffing firm Yoh. With credit tight, production down and the future unusually uncertain, many firms laid off engineers in 2009.
Some people consider RF Engineering to be a form of art
Challenged daily by the laws of physics, the engineer engaged with electromagnetic sciences is required to employ his/her best intuitive tools to solve multi-variable problems in demanding environments and highly competitive industries.
Resume Black Hole
Good Engineering &Technical Personal /Managers/ and support personnel sent to the wastebasket or deleted because of a name or nationality THAT SOUND FORIGEN.
Catch 22 for Technology Recruiters
Current time require extra-effort across the board; Firms, employees, HR people and recruiters. Recruiting business becomes tougher now.
It is true that RF/Microwave engineering and security clearance are relatively sweet spots in today's economy, yet it is still far from what it used to be only less than a year ago.
To make things even tougher, recruiters from less fortunate industries hop onboard now.
The end result is tighter competition over both clients and hard-to-find microwave engineers with variety of scarce field of expertise.
The Role of Job Boards is Changing
Looking forward, the role of job boards is changing.
The variety of online resources available today, combined with the growing use of social networks challenge jobs boards to be much more than a static posting pad. Job boards will be required to take a more active role in the search and promotion for their customers.
Leveraging on Social Networks as Resource for Candidate Search
Social networks offer a convenient arena to identify candidates according to professional and demographic characteristics. With the added value of available user profiles, social networks are developing to be an open arena for harvesting candidates, and especially those passive ones and this media is available to all.
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