Joseph Walker, reporter and key contributor of FINS.com, spoke with GravityPeople’s Jeff Winter on how recent Cisco Layoffs affect the Bay Area labor market and subsequent recruiting practices utilized by recruiters and Cisco competitors.
This story comes on the heels of Cisco outperforming analyst expectations.
Read the full story here.
To learn more about GravityPeople and to view a host of current openings for technology professionals click here.
GravityPeople has been a top 20 recruiting company in San Francisco since 1999. All of our team members are part of this community. We eat in the same restaurants as you, hike the same trails as you, ride the same mountains as you and we are proud to be a part of the California economy. It’s nice to be recognized as a leader in the local recruiting services industry.
We’re proud to receive this award though we think the category doesn’t necessary tell our entire story.
GravityPeople is a leading recruitment outsourcer providing direct-hire and hourly recruiting services. Established in 1998, GravityPeople has been serving the San Francisco Bay Area Technology community for over a decade. Now with expanded geographical capabilities, GravityPeople provides strategic technical recruiting services to clients across North America.
To see a list of our open positions, please click here.
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Last week, the San Francisco Business Times released their annual Book of Lists, a publication of listings of hundreds of the hottest Bay Area companies in their fields, by ranking. GravityPeople is excited to be listed as the 4th largest Contingency Executive Search Firm in the region. And, even more encouraging, is the fact that our direct-hire /contingent technical search business comprises only 50% of our total annual business. The other portion of our business is our growing recruitment outsourcing business that focuses on technical and other high-complexity searches.
This is not our first time making the Book of Lists. GravityPeople was named to the San Francisco Business Times “Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies” list in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Since the beginning in 1998, our goal has not changed; provide the best technology recruiting services in the recruiting industry. The recipe for our success hasn’t changed either. We respect others, work hard, and pride ourselves on having unparalleled industry knowledge.
Jeff Winter, GravityPeople
Jeff Winter, GravityPeople’s CEO has been invited to be a customer panelist at the annual Dice Holdings Investor Summit to be hosted in New York on September 30th. As a customer panelist, Jeff will participate in valuable roundtable discussions that will explore trends in recruitment advertising, new stand-out job distribution services, advertisement spend patterns and the state of the overall recruiting economy in the coming quarters.
GravityPeople, a national technical recruiting company headquartered in San Francisco, has been a Dice customer for over 12 years. GravityPeople’s client portfolio ranges from early-stage venture backed technology companies to large publicly held household names and while organizational size may vary, all of Gravity’s customers demand the best and brightest technology professionals. “Dice has always been an integral part of our overall candidate attraction strategy for both our direct-hire and recruitment outsourcing business units”, comments Jeff Winter. Jeff went on to say, “Dice.com has been our most consistent advertising resource for over decade specifically for technical talent. I’m excited to participate at the Investor Summit this year”.
Jeff’s panel starts at 11:30 AM ET and you can listen to it here: http://tinyurl.com/29jlo5h
About Dice Holdings:
Dice Holdings, Inc. is a leading provider of specialized career websites for select professional communities. Dice has a 20-year track record of bringing together millions of professionals and thousands of companies through specialized career websites in several professional sectors, including technology, financial services, energy, healthcare and security clearance. Today, Dice serves multiple markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Jonathan Chenard, Vice President of Services
Jonathan Chenard, GravityPeople’s Vice President of Recruiting Services, was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle for an article on hiring in Silicon Valley. The piece appeared on SFGate.com this weekend and focused on rumors of attrition at large Silicon Valley employers like Google.
It’s true, our teams have seen attrition from nearly all of the major technology companies in the Valley but we can’t confirm any mass exoduses. As the economy continues to improve, technology workers are presented with more opportunities, many of which are at start-ups. Tech professionals are again frequently weighing all of their options both internally and now, more often, externally. Large companies which are commonly thought of as “safe harbors” during tough economic times (often mistakenly) are once again being forced to take talent acquisition (and retention) seriously as the technology labor market has again become very competitive. In fact, in June, we reported the shift from an employer’s market to a candidate’s market in a blog post that you can read here.
About GravityPeople:
GravityPeople is a leading recruitment outsourcer providing direct-hire and hourly recruiting services. Established in 1998, GravityPeople has been serving the San Francisco Bay Area Technology community for over decade. Now with a national focus, GravityPeople provides strategic technical recruiting services to clients across North America. To learn more about GravityPeople’s services from employers click here. To see a list of GravityPeople open positions, click here.
The good thing about recessions is that they teach us things. This time around, we learned to just call things what they are. For over a decade, we’ve been offering technology companies an alternative to contingent search. In fact, there’s a good chance that we were the first recruiting company to offer outsourced recruiting services to a technology company in Silicon Valley. Anyone remember Netfish?
Anyways, we’ve always struggled to name this service, a project-based hiring solution. We’ve called it VMR (vendor managed recruiting). We tried HLM (hiring lifecycle management). We toyed with Gravity RPO (recruitment process outsourcing). Alphabet soup!
While we’ll probably all agree that acronyms make products and services more official sounding, and that word-efficiency can shorten/simplify content at times, nothing is more important to a buyer than clarity. So with that, we’re calling our recruiting service Gravity On-Demand.
Yep, we’re tellin’ it how it is. Gravity On-Demand is a contract recruiting solution (this description was a small breakthrough for us too) that you can plug into your existing recruiting program anytime, anywhere. On an hourly basis, we offer a team of our technical recruiters supervised by our heads of services coupled with amazing applicant tracking software that shows everything we do. It’s high-touch, end-to-end technical recruiting that works and won’t break your bank.
It’s on – technology hiring is in full swing. For the past 12 years we’ve proven to be a leading indicator of market conditions, especially for the technology markets: people stop hiring when things get scary (see last year), and they start hiring when things look good. We’ll be the first to tell you, things are looking very good. And, as if you needed any more proof, we’re actively hiring technology recruiters and recruiting account managers in our San Francisco office.
So what’s hot? We get asked this question all the time. And, as the most established recruitment outsourcer in the Bay Area, we keep a keen eye on the trends.
Here’s our list of the hottest technology jobs in the Bay Area.
iPhone Developers: While Apple continues to dominate the worldwide mobile handset markets with its iPhone, makers of Android phones are gaining ground and the demand for Android developers is beginning to heat up too.
Marketing Jobs: Often some of the first to get cut, marketing jobs are making a comeback in a big way in Silicon Valley. From media buyers to marketing directors, technology companies are spending on rebuilding marketing departments.
Product Management: Many technology companies have quit treading water and are designing new products, attacking new verticals and expanding into emerging markets. Innovation is making a comeback and product management professionals are enjoying a market full of opportunities.
We’ve moved – again. Our new space is Gravity’s 7th San Francisco headquarters in 12 years. It’s not that we’re bad tenants, we just like to move. It keeps things fresh. We also like a little variety in our lunch spots and watering holes. We’ve always believed that change is good.
This time around, we’ve landed in a former fire station, built in 1907 with bricks from the rubble of the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. Once the home of the San Francisco Underwriter’s Fire Patrol, a privately financed fire battalion sponsored by insurance companies, the building was a working station until 1943. Since then, the space has housed a printing company, an art gallery and an office space for technology companies. It’s a cool spot.
Take a stroll down memory lane with us. We collected pictures of our old offices, a time line of sorts. Enjoy.
In 1999, sight unseen, we moved into our first San Francisco office at 1155 Ellis St, in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood. Humble beginnings to say the least.
Favorite lunch spot: Aroma Deli
In late 2000, competition for office space in San Francisco was fierce. Lucky for us, one of our customers had taken more space than they needed and asked us to move in with them. We did and landed at 1145 Market Street.
Favorite lunch spots: Tu Lan, Taqueria Cancun
Looking for some privacy and for room to expand, we found 310 Sutter, a 4 story mixed-use building located 1 block from the Chinatown gate and 2 blocks from Union Square. Larry still talks about the ping pong table. He dominated.
Favorite lunch spots: Sammy’s Deli, Taqueria Mana, Bistro 69
BOOM x 1,000,000! That was the sound of the internet bubble finally bursting in late 2001. After a real life “act of God” that released us from our lease (a chimney fell on our roof). We downsized and moved to a live-work loft on Natoma. The place was amazing, something you’d see in Architectural Digest. The neighborhood – not so much.
Favorite lunch spots: Tony Baloney’s and Brainwash.
In 2004, we started to grow again and needed new digs. This time around, we were looking for something a little more corporate. 120 Montgomery was our first office in the FiDi, an area we’d call home for the next 5 years.
Favorite lunch spots: Deli, Banana House Thai, Akiko’s Sushi Bar
Looking for an upgrade after a 2 year lease on Montgomery, we moved 2 blocks east to 98 Battery. Rumor has it the building was one of the original Levi’s buildings. We stayed in this office through the Great Recession of 2008-2009.
Favorite lunch spots: Jon’s Snack Shop, Tadich, San Buena Taco Truck, Unicorn
And, here are, our new office at 147 Natoma. We’re still exploring the neighborhood but so far, so good. There’s seems to be a ton of energy in the area and we love being near Yerba Buena Gardens and the SFMOMA.
Favorite lunch spots: TBD
